2026 Is Unfinished Business | Ep 59

Paul (00:00) Welcome to Guys Like Us. If you are new to this podcast and how can you be in episode 59? Can you believe it? This is the podcast where we talk about what's important in your prime. Your prime, which some people call midlife, is gonna be about resolutions, family, job, leadership, relationships, a lot of things that are fun and move us. And we are here today. I'm calling in from Vienna. My name's Paul. I'm an entrepreneur, former executive, father of three, sometimes a little bit overcritical, as you will hear in this episode. And I'm joined by my co-host Mark calling in from Marc (00:41) Pari, pari. I Paul (00:43) bonjour. Marc (00:44) I am what a joy it is to be here. I'm a self conceived artist, a denier of reality, clearly, an entrepreneur, husband, father Paul (00:52) Love it. Marc (00:54) of two, yeah. And based in New York, but but delighted to be here in Paris for these next few days for a little bit for work. And super delighted to be introducing our topic, which is revisiting New Year's resolutions. And why we're doing that is because, hey, it's Q4. we know that the kids have gone back to school, we know that holiday parties are up on the horizon, we know that everyone's pushing you at work to go crazy and to close, close, close, execute on the on your last bit of projects. And you have more time sorry, you have less time. Not more to go on and push. And so so Paul (01:32) Absolutely. It's closing in. Marc (01:34) so we're gonna reflect back on on what we promised ourselves back in January. It'll be a fun one and see how we did. It'll be a good ranking. I'm excited for it. Paul (01:47) Me too. So Mike, how's it going my friend? You look fresh. Marc (01:54) How is it going? It's amazing that I look fresh. I feel like I Paul (01:59) Mm-hmm. Marc (01:59) I I was I was like one day short of being whisked to the hospital, but I'm okay. Paul (02:03) Well, wait, I mean I kinda know why, but let our audience partake, you know, by describing your idiot and terminator of the week or maybe weekend, to tell us what's going on in your life briefly. Marc (02:17) I mean, I will just say obviously we had an extended bit of time on the Oktoberfest. I think we had four days with friends that were kind of like back to back. It wasn't always designed that way, to be honest with you, but you know, I've a lot of dear friends who's just like, Hey, here's some tickets, come, come. and you know, went in Rome or in Munich, as you say. And so my terminators are absolutely to all the friends and all the people, even you. Who decided, who took the invitation, decided, you know what? I'm gonna fucking go. Yeah. Paul (02:49) Even me. Okay. Mm-hmm. Marc (02:53) And and and and we we kinda lifted the place off, I thought, you know, on on Friday night. So I thought that was amazing time in the CAF attempt. Paul (03:03) Absolutely. Absolutely. And idiot? Any idiots there? Marc (03:07) I mean where should I start? Paul (03:14) Good one. Good one. Marc (03:15) Where should I start? let's just say I I'll make it more broad instead of calling out specific people out because we we know there they're loads of idiots with that camera. The amount of people who can't still hold their alcohol is w is one thing. I get that. Paul (03:29) Mm. Marc (03:30) But the guys who are like absolutely in the ambulance at ten AM or like eleven AM is Paul (03:36) Is insane. Marc (03:37) that's insane. It's like you forgot, you know, how to how to how to like just behave as a human. Yeah. Paul (03:44) You know, I mean Mark, you get y you told me I think when we got into our tables like I and now I finally deserve the terminator of the week from you, you fuckhead. Marc (03:53) Yeah. Paul (03:55) It's basically I think what your words were. I said, Yeah, maybe. And you'll get them. You'll get it now, okay? I mean I I hand it to you. You got me into Oktoberfest for the first time in sixteen years. and and I I don't like going because I'm I'm not a particular fan of beer. I mean, especially not in those quantities. And a lot of people, so that's a bad combination. It was hilarious though, but it it is an an an interesting thought that you have a five hundred million turnover in two weeks of people getting shit faced. And that is and and it it it is it it sounds and feels a bit weirder in twenty twenty six than it did in two thousand, or in two Marc (04:33) Solve. Paul (04:34) thousand and ten. That that's kind of my my my takeaway from this as well. Marc (04:40) Yeah, you know, it's funny, like I I I had some American friends who who who were the weren't there either for the first time or or for others. And they said, you know, some of my best times were just looking around the tents and just seeing how happy everyone was. Like there was just Paul (04:53) Yeah. Marc (04:54) ma it was mass joy. You know, it wasn't Paul (04:56) That is true. Mass alcohol induced facilitated joy. Lubricated Marc (05:00) Facilitated alcohol facil lubricated. Lubricated. Paul (05:04) and exacted. One big hydration break. Marc (05:08) Ha ha ha. Paul (05:10) Well the i and the idiot for me to be honest is me again because I went to the wrong station and then my train was gone. No, Marc (05:15) Mm. Paul (05:15) let's put it like this. Anyways, I don't even want to go there. However, this is a great segue, I think. You know, the the Marc (05:22) Think so too. Paul (05:23) the the way we parted the this weekend. I mean, I only had basically not even a quarter of wood you did, so I don't know how how you're still standing. Marc (05:30) Ha ha ha. Paul (05:32) I mean I did for good measure went to Vachau yesterday, which was beautiful. But anyways, it made me think a little bit today of How are we actually doing on our new year's resolutions? Which is episode twenty-four. I think we came out by saying, you know, it actually doesn't make sense to have any. I think you went into the episode saying dry January is bullshit. So so much for that. I think you kept you kept that resolution. Marc (05:57) I still believe that. Even even though I could use it. Paul (06:00) You kept that resolution. Nine months in, you know, every month you kept that resolution. Marc (06:05) Right, exactly. Paul (06:07) but anyways I looked at our transcript and we did have some things that we kind of softly committed to or said that we wanted to do. So I wanna ask you, Mark, do you still remember what it was and where are you with that? Marc (06:24) Yeah, it's a good question. And of course when I looked at my resolutions, you know what I found? Ca they're Paul (06:29) Yeah. No. Marc (06:31) hilarious. I mean, vague, ambitious. Paul (06:36) Nobody can ever pin you down on them because they were so vague. Marc (06:41) But I'll share what they were. They were, Paul (06:43) Please. Marc (06:44) one was absolutely being more out in the world with my ideas. I think I really wanted to be out more out, you know, on stage. I wanted to be Paul (06:51) Mm-hmm. Marc (06:52) out, you know, making stuff. I wanted to like, you know, I think share broader points of view and I think you know, I would I would give myself on that one Seven out of ten, you know? Like I definitely yeah. I've been on stage Paul (07:03) Really? That's not bad. Marc (07:06) no, I've been on stage lots of times. We've done a lot of podcasts. Obviously we have our own podcast. I I think putting thought pieces, you know, out around around you know, the business out in the world. So it's you know, it's it's it's a thing. Paul (07:21) Okay. Marc (07:23) I but you know when I but I just want to say the act of now pro giving myself seven out of ten is like why aren't you at least a nine? Like you you loser. Like you should really push for it. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, well, Paul (07:31) Really? That's what your thought is? Huh. Interesting. Marc (07:35) I mean it's li time is short. But Paul (07:38) Mm-hmm. Marc (07:39) that was one. And then the other is and this is kind of so hilariously vague, is that I want to have answers, right? Some to some deeply held questions, you know. And Paul (07:47) Exactly, you said that. Marc (07:50) yeah. And I think some of those questions this one I would give myself nine out of ten. I think like Paul (07:57) Really? Marc (07:58) well, one of them is like, hey, can I build a business? That was last year, you know. Hey, you can. That's pretty good. Can Paul (08:02) Okay. Mm-hmm. Marc (08:05) it stand for something to be differentiated? it can. Great. Like can you know, that those were some of the questions. And then the other one was I was thinking and which you were just a part of this past weekend, is like, can you can I manufactor an event, right, that will bring all my friends together, right? And organize it in a way that could work out in a in a radical d. Yeah. So Paul (08:26) You did, kind of. Hmm. Not bad. Marc (08:31) that kinda worked. I found it as Paul (08:32) Mm-hmm. Marc (08:33) a new a new way to double down and and nurture friendship. Paul (08:38) I mean you had that way already, but the new way is just basically going to Oktoberfest. Marc (08:43) You're such a dick. No, it's a but it was to rally people, negotiate them it like create a program of which you could not say no to, right? Unless like you're an idiot. And you know, inexperiences who can't say no to is a good thing. Paul (08:58) Okay, so basically you're saying I'm I'm I'm f I mean I'm not surprised at all. so you're saying of course I'm Mark Winter, I'm great, I'm Marc (09:03) Ha ha ha. Paul (09:07) fully on track, I'm somewhere between a seven and a nine. I mean just because I'm having a bit of a self reflective day it's not a twelve out of ten. Is that what you're saying? Marc (09:15) Ha ha ha Paul (09:20) Is this is this roughly directionally right? Marc (09:25) Ugh, I miss yeah, my gosh, I miss you. Anyway, that's that's that's partly true. I would say there's there's something else though, worth adding. Like I mean, I did let go of some stuff. I mean, they were so deliberately broad, right. So I took my foot Paul (09:37) Really. Yeah. Marc (09:38) off the gas, for example, of getting like working on my screenplay business and getting that kind of pu published. I was really considering writing a book and then I said, I just don't have time between like building a business and doing that stuff and I said I I really Tried to be focused this year. I needed to. And so that was it. Well, that's my thought. Paul (10:01) Right. Good. Yeah. A anything that you needed to pivot off from? I mean, other than that? Marc (10:07) Well, I mean, I think you know, I I th I there were a lot of pivots this year. I think maybe it was more like letting go of like and may you know what this is why my I think my my resolution was broad. I think w it's funny to start a company in your mid forties is that like you've seen you have a lot of patterns already. Paul (10:32) Mm. Marc (10:33) And so like I had I knew that like I was gonna build something, I didn't know what it will end up being and what I thought I w was gonna build at at month two shifted radically from month six and it keeps pushing to month nine, you know. And so I think I had realized I had to keep that mindset going. and and welcome that forward. And that that just might be the entrepreneurial thing going. Paul (10:54) Hm. And did you bring back your vision board, like you said in the episode? I should bring that vision board back again, I remember that. Marc (11:01) Yeah, I did a little bit of it and To be honest, I need more. I should I should look back at that. Okay, great. That's a I'm gonna knock knock me down a few bags. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be a six out of ten, exactly. But Paul (11:12) Good. I'm g I'm happy I found something. I'm happy I found something. Yeah. Marc (11:18) you know what? But I will say for the Q four, what I wanna double down on, which is important, is a couple things. So hold me accountable for this. And something you can measure. One, I'm losing at least three Kevos. Done. I know exactly how I'm gonna do it. Yeah. It helps Paul (11:33) Okay. Yeah. Marc (11:35) that I already Got two this past weekend, so I just need to get that off an additional. Is that cheating? Paul (11:41) Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Absolutely is. Marc (11:48) the thing is like I I think I I absolutely wanna deliver at least two major kind of talks, which I have a good idea of where and how to do. And then three is I don't think I'm gonna I no, you know what? Three is I think you and I are gonna have a really crazy moment in December. A really fun moment. Paul (12:13) Mm. Marc (12:14) in pushing guys like us This p this great podcast, our great thinking about leadership, et cetera. And I think we should lean and make that really, Paul (12:21) Nice, I like this. That's a great thought. Marc (12:24) really great. And I think we're gonna discover something when we create something together. Or we're gonna do a podcast about how Paul (12:29) Nice my friend. Marc (12:30) fucking terrible that was. That's the stupidest idea we ever thought of. Paul (12:32) We can do it. This is great, you know. There is this is a great thing about having a podcast. You can always also talk about all your no miserable failures. Like my New Year's resolutions, by the way, were I wouldn't say miserable failures, Marc (12:44) God. I I wanna Paul (12:46) but they weren't great, yeah. Marc (12:48) Well let's see, I bet are you stretching every morning? Paul (12:51) Absolutely not. Marc (12:53) Fail. Paul (12:55) Complete fail. Stretch every morning. Yeah, no way. Marc (12:56) Would you w w w what would what would you give what would give you what would you give your average from zero to ten? Paul (13:02) zero. Marc (13:03) Okay, fantastic. Paul (13:04) Ha ha ha. Marc (13:06) drinking less. Paul (13:14) This might sound strange to many, but actually I did pretty well because it's less. It's almost like your, you know, like your two kilos thing, you know. I mean you're starting from a very high base, you know, so it's not So it's not so hard to lose some, Marc (13:33) Jesus. Paul (13:34) you know. No, actually I've I mean with exceptions, but I've been better than in the past. I with lots of room to improve. Yeah. Marc (13:42) Hmm. Good. Good good good. You f you could have fooled me, so what are you getting that out of ten? Just curious, you know. Six okay. That bad. Not bad. Paul (13:50) six actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Marc (13:57) have you discovered something that you didn't know about yet? Faster discover something you know about. Paul (14:07) Not really. In a sense it was less about something new, I think. but what what proved right is the more clarity about things that I knew already, like what I wanted to do professionally, which I had in my head. I really started feeling it i in the right way and I really started feeling this is the right thing to do what I'm doing right now, looking for businesses, trying to invest into businesses, doing this podcast, you know, pushing different projects at the same time. Marc (14:37) Mm. Paul (14:37) so this this is very clear to me and that that came like I wanted it to come, you know, in in a sense. Yeah. So I'm happy about this. Marc (14:48) He also built some incredible shit with clawed code and stuff like that. I think you've earned a lot of Paul (14:54) No, that is true. I learned a it's true actually. It was before that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I did learn some Marc (14:58) Huh. Wha w well welcome to the world of Mark Winter. You're like, right, what other amazing shit? Let's just bump up the averages. Paul (15:05) Yeah, exactly. No, no, this is I think this is exactly where the two of us are different, right? and and in and both have strength and and in it, yeah. Overestimating and underestimating, right? And both there's a power in both of those, you know. no, so absolutely. Marc (15:15) Weaknesses. Paul (15:22) No, I said twenty twenty six was the the year of the horse, right? About execution speed, visibility. Yeah, I think I can still add some on that. Maybe that's a five out of ten. But there was also one that I said I wanted to reflect more often, monthly or quarterly, not only just once a year. And I gotta say I am really not so good at this. That's a four out of ten. I I did go away, as you guys probably remember, in May to really reflect on what I wanted to do. This was great. But I also feel and that's why, you know, because it was a no, why are you laughing? Marc (15:56) 'cause and that's when I picked up smoking and drinking white wine while by the beach. Was it that weekend? good. Paul (16:04) Huh, it wasn't actually. And it was a very healthy one. It was where I was you know by the sea for six days only doing keto, losing two kilos by the way, in in these six days and and and becoming very clear in my head. Yeah. That was amazing. All the other shit came afterwards. Marc (16:19) Mm-hmm. Paul (16:23) because I think you might also remember these Rau Nechte we talked about, you know, these where you have these twelve wishes or that you write down and you end up with one Marc (16:30) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Paul (16:31) because you burn the rest. And I was so that I ended up with the one that I didn't want wanted to end up with and I did. And that fucker really has been working on me, yeah, I have to say. Marc (16:43) Mm. Paul (16:44) It's been that's been a real it's very private, but it's a real challenge, yeah. So I'm still on that challenge. But overall I'm just amazed, and I don't know how you feel, that it's already three quarters in. Marc (16:59) Yeah. Paul (17:00) it is a little bit it reminds me now of our time episodes and and the kind of tick tips and tricks we had there that it's sometimes good to step back and think of all the things that have happened. Like you have just reminded me of how much shit I built on Claude, you know, and and how much I did there. Marc (17:17) it's ridiculous. Paul (17:18) And and and so on. And and not to get into that feeling which I kinda have. I mean I had to start off of a you know very chilled pace in summer. It took me three weeks to get up to speed. Now I am and now I almost in FOMO. I'm like, fuck me, 2026 is over. What did I actually do? What did I wanna do? I don't know. Is that something you feel as well? Marc (17:43) I so I wish I could stop time and accomplish more before the next couple of months. That's so that's how I feel. I mean I feel like I did a lot and if I really want to meet my goals, you know, it's gonna it's gonna be a Hercule Herculean effort to do it. Paul (17:58) Mm. Marc (17:59) You know. Paul (18:00) Yeah. Yeah. And how do you how does that make you feel? Marc (18:08) You know, man, it's a good question. Like I we we did some averages already. mine are Paul (18:12) We didn't. Marc (18:13) a little higher than a little higher than yours. Paul (18:15) W which is more out of I would say, American versus European. standards, you know. Not about actual accomplishment, you know, let's face that. I mean that that's pretty clear. Yeah. Marc (18:24) Exhibit A. Exhibit A Yeah, exactly. Let's just be queer. No, I mean I feel I feel like unfinished business. That's how I feel. It's unfinished. And and keep going moving forward. And maybe that means the goals, you know, while broad, we're we're kind of right. I mean, I think there's something about the the the beauty of like I'm I'm not satisfied yet. Let's put it that way. So Paul (18:56) Mm-hmm. Marc (18:57) I I'm not satisfied 'til I give myself a ten, you know, or nine point five. Paul (19:02) Well, I mean that's easy for you though. Marc (19:04) Yeah. Paul (19:06) no, but I think I like what you said, unfinished business, and it just made me think of it is so funny, no? Every year is kind of the same way. You starting, we had our episode about the resolutions in January. And we kind of gave ourselves a break. I remember that because I said, you know what? Let's use January to make up, you know, our shit and declutter and really come up with goals. I didn't really, to be honest. Then Marc (19:30) No, I remember that. Yeah. You really struggle with it. Yeah, you really struggle with it. Paul (19:33) If remember that, I said this, no, yeah, no. And and then I really didn't do any I mean, I didn't really do it, you know. And then all of a sudden it's made, and you're like, fuck me, I need to get some shit done because it's gonna be summer soon. So then it's summer. I mean, then the summer goes, then it's September, and so it goes so quickly. And so I I'm really I'm really not struggling, but I'm really struck by that because every year is like that. Every year in a company is like that. And funnily enough, I I talked to some businesses that I, you know, where I work with the founders or the CEOs, how they're doing, and where we have regular conversations. And to a certain extent it was very similar. they were also we we had talked about things nine months ago which we all agreed were important. They still haven't hadn't implemented them, although they were small, because they kind of got, you know, swept away with the current of the shit you have to do. In your business, in your daily life. And so I find this, and this is really nothing new. And I I think everybody who listens to this can probably relate. Is how do you actually get those things done? And and how do you not get frustrated and demoralized when you realize that you haven't? Marc (20:50) Yeah. Paul (20:50) So you either are Mark Winter and you go like, fuck I'm an eight out of ten. Marc (20:54) Ha ha ha. Paul (20:57) That's a way that is one way. Or if you're a little bit of a super self critical or you know, insecure overachiever like me, what do you do then? Marc (21:14) You know, I think you the act of expressing gratitude for what you've already accomplished acco across your goals is a thing it's in itself. You may commit it to something, right? And you push forward. And yes, time flies. And by the way, I just need to point out you had did an incredible job of fucking off this summer. I mean, amazing. Like here's my award. Ten out of ten. Yeah, exactly. I mean Paul (21:39) I did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that is actually twelve out of ten. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Scratch of two months actually. Exactly. Marc (21:44) Twelve out of ten. Yeah. So you were I mean, you were wh well I was well yeah, exactly. Well I was busting my ass. You were you were doing doing absurd stuff. So but you still, you know, when you're in it, but well like I know you well enough, you're you're really in it. And so you I think but you didn't need to practice a little bit of gratitude and and also pause and actually just like you know, you c you above all are the terminator and with your mindset and I can imagine if you're just in execution mode nonstop, nonstop, nonstop, time flies. You forget you forgot how it moves, you know? Paul (22:20) It absolutely is true. It's true. Marc (22:23) Mm. Paul (22:23) But then again I mean, I'm s my forty sixth year on this planet, you know. Let's say for the last twenty five or twenty-six I was somehow in a professional halfway self-reflected capacity. It's not like this is the first time in my life that I think about this, probably the twentieth time. It has never Marc (22:43) Yeah. Paul (22:44) changed anything. So maybe it's just time to get used to it. I don't know. You know? And live Marc (22:48) And you and you live with it. That's true. That's true. Paul (22:50) with it. Because I mean Marc (22:52) Good thought. Paul (22:52) I'm not sure, yeah. But I would like to really ask of all our all of our listeners to, you know, maybe step back and think, you know, what did I actually promise to myself? You know, what stuck, what didn't, what did I drop on purpose instead of just letting it go? You know? I mean I think that's like my I mean, I didn't drop my mobility out of purpose. I was I just can't get it done. Marc (23:16) Well, can I I agree. Like I think that's the right challenge for the for for for our listeners and our audience. And I would say like you know, the alternative is like you wake up in in January first and panicked you're like, gosh. Not then not this again. Yeah, Paul (23:29) Again. Yeah, but then it's like Groundhog Day. Yeah. Marc (23:33) not this again. What am I gonna do this year? How's it gonna be better? How's it gonna be different? All right. Look, you know what? We're c we're been talking a lot about, you know, what makes us good ranking ourselves. But you know, here's some real science, right? As you know, you know, about 80% of New Year's mes resolutions fail by February, right? So so like, you Paul (23:50) Yes, true. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Marc (23:53) know, I'm gonna I'm gonna like dust a little bit of Mark American optimism on this, right? And did you know that like Paul (23:59) Thank you. I needed it because I'm getting depressed here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Nice. Yeah. Marc (24:00) Yeah, you're you're all you're like getting depressed about yourself. I could feel it, you know. It's like that's not right, you know? And you know, behavior change often takes at least sixty six like an average of sixty-six days to become automatic. So if you want to stretch, if you really wanted to stretch, maybe like every every morning instead of doing zero, you know, you would have to keep in your head, hey, just do it sixty-six times in a row. Actually, it's kind of an interesting idea to move forward, you know. And Paul (24:28) Yeah, it is, huh? Marc (24:30) So just bring it up to a numerical versus anything else. Yeah. And look, you know, for me, I think I was able to to stick to my shit because, you know, part of my New Zeal New Year's resolution is to start a business and not fuck it up. So you're gonna do that past six six days. Paul (24:46) Yeah, exactly. You yeah, it's true. Yours was so yeah, I mean yours was a bit cheating to be fair, but okay, I hear ya. Yeah. No, but actually it's not. I have I I I have another I Marc (24:48) You know? I t it's fucking cheating. Yeah, fine. I'm coming queen, I cheated, you know Paul (24:57) no no I actually I I I have a bit of a resolution for this if you want, but c finish your thought. Marc (25:01) Okay. no. No, I just wanna say like like we know why we chose to have this because I think let's name the the implicit is that like closing the year is hard. That's it's just hard for everyone, right? It's 'cause you have aggressive targets sometimes at work, you have the holidays, then you have the holiday parties, then you have the kids doing God knows what. They're grasping for stuff, you have to do all the shopping, but you know, you you have less time to yourself Paul (25:26) Lots of things. I mean you start back at school again, everything, yeah. Yeah. Marc (25:29) Yeah, I mean the reality is you have you have less time to yourself, not more. Right. So you like the point is if you're planning on sticking a thing, execute. That's Paul (25:34) Totally. One hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. Marc (25:38) it. How's that for a fucking rally cry? Paul (25:40) I I love it. I love it. And I wanted to resolve something as well. Because you we said New Year's resolutions are bullshit and I stand with that. But what you said, I think you know, I should get my vision board back. is kinda right. And and is is because my rallying cry would have been for at least a a a twice a year check in into where do you stand. Not in terms of to am I stretching or not, you know, but you know, am I healthier? You know, do I feel better in my body, which by the way I do, you know, without stretching, because that losing five, six kilos helped me with lots of the pains I had. And so I did, you know, in a sense. and and and and another thing, so to step back twice a year to do that, that would be my kind of ra rallying cry, and do it now. Or, you know, and that's another idea, because a good friend of mine asked me in my you know, on my birthday is like what's your next life year gonna be about? And I really liked that too, because it gives you another point Marc (26:45) Mm. Paul (26:45) in time than the new year to think about that. And I actually and then mine is July, so I it's been okay two, three months, but I now I still kind of feel in the feeling I could set my goals for the next year. And I would like to set it and I did. And it and I said it to me it was the year of, you know, of of absolute clarity and actually moving and executing. It's similar to what I said in in January. And then to really think, okay, how do I measure that? And have I done that? And I think and that maybe do that, Marc (27:11) Mm. Paul (27:14) you know, at in at halftime and then and once and once more. That's kind of what I'm taking away from this, which is positive. So first I moved my goalpost from January to July. That was very smart, you know. I said actually the year has has just started for me, you know. Marc (27:27) Right. I love it. Wow, I've I'm smiling 'cause I know what you did. Paul (27:32) So that's kind of where I sit with that. The review. is amazing. The review and the actual assessment and thinking of what you did and if that was what you wanted it to be. And you need to set a general direction, not habits. Results. As Marc (27:49) Yeah. Wow. Paul (27:51) an outcome. Marc (27:52) Look, man, you look at us. We took we took a break and and we come back from Oktoberfest and we're now supercharged more than ever. Paul (28:00) Yeah, I don't know. I think Octoberfest threw me back like you know, a few weeks or months, but that's okay. I might have needed that, yeah. I mean at least I thought so yesterday morning and this morning. I mean I look I mean I looked myself in in the mirror and Marc (28:08) yeah. Paul (28:14) I saw myself in the mirror and I thought like who the fuck is this person? you know? Marc (28:18) Yeah, my god, that's a little bit of me. Anyway, great to chat with you, Paul (28:21) Anyways, Marc (28:22) buddy. Paul (28:23) as always, thank you. Marc (28:26) Thank you.