The year comes to a close and the brake on this 2023 buggy just failed. The Rev has been out of it for two weeks and I am calling it done for 2023 also. We will start up in January 2024 again. But as the year careens to head first into a Mariah Carey Christmas song, I feel the need to touch on some important points. For school leavers the ugly truths of what awaits them cannot be understated and I mention this to scare the shit out of them. And as I started this new venture with my wife, which is unlike any other business I have started because it relies on marketing, I discovered an odd phenomenon. It has been coined, by me, as appraisal denial. Not hitting the like button on someone else doing a good job because you feel it will steal from you. Or, you don't want someone else to be validated in the hopes that they may fail, making you feel okay about your own failures or inactions. This is not the best strategy for success. You have to be bold enough to try and failure is not a measure of your ability.