Yo {{first_name}},
My last email went out 23 days ago.
“I was preparing for my high-school preliminary exams 🤓.”
Sounds reasonable…Right?
EXCUSE.
I could have written to you.
I just chose not to.
But I’m back from under the ground.
(With fresh experience and knowledge.)
Firstly,
HAPPY NEW YEAR {{first_name}}.
And if you actually want 2026 to be a NEW YEAR.
I have some advice for you…
Be obsessed. Be persistent. Be optimistic.
And the most important of all is to be different.
Because now no one is creating a Facebook site, SEO, or Amazon.
Those games are already won.
Your edge is building something different in a way most people are too scared to try.
I’m not telling you to chase a $100M company this year.
(Unless you genuinely can.)
Just start small.
Take action.
Slowly but surely you’ll get the output of your unseen pain.
I’ll end this letter with a nice poem:
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t!
If you like to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to raise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can never win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
Your friend,
— Zaid.