My mission hasn’t changed, but the world has.

I started Daily Discipline eight years ago with one mission: provide simple daily lessons to help people strengthen their personal discipline.

My aim is to provide a daily voice of clarity that cuts through the noise, of encouragement that breaks through the cynicism, of timeless truth that outlasts passing fads.

Little did I know that parents would take these messages to their family dinner table conversations. Teachers would print them out and staple them to the walls in their schools. Coaches would build their teams around the skills they learned here.

Eight years and 2,061 Daily Discipline messages later, now entering year nine, my mission hasn’t changed. But the world sure has.

I look at it, as I do with all things, through the lens of E+R=O:

• I am pursuing the same outcome here in 2026 as I was in 2018.
• The events now are different than they were in 2018, 2020, or 2023. The events ahead this year and the coming years will be even more radically different.
• Your discipline will be tested more than ever before. You will be tested in new and subtle ways. How will you respond?

E+R=O never finishes, fades, or fails. Whatever direction the world goes, whatever it becomes, whatever happens, E+R=O will be right there at the center of it all, working as reliably as gravity. No matter what happens or where you go, E+R=O comes with you.

The outcomes you prioritize will change. The events you experience certainly will. But no matter what you’re pursuing or experiencing, your response will always be the most important piece of the equation.

Thank you for being part of Daily Discipline. I hope you had a productive and fulfilling 2025. Can’t wait to attack 2026 with you.

Happy New Year!

PS  - As I do on the last message of the year:

1. What was your favorite Daily Discipline of 2025?
2. What is on your wish list from us in 2026?

Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.