2026. No Resolutions. No Safety Net. Everything Changes.
I don’t do New Year resolutions.
They’re designed to be broken.
A yearly ritual of lying to yourself politely.
So no promises.
No “this year I will”.
No motivational nonsense.
But 2026 still stands apart.
Not because it’s convenient.
Because it’s consequential.
This isn’t about goal-setting or trends.
It’s about an entrepreneurial mindset in 2026—and what it actually demands.
2025: The Year That Aged Me (In a Good Way)
2025 has been… interesting.
I’ve learned more this year than I have in many years combined.
Hard lessons.
Uncomfortable lessons.
The kind that don’t come from books or panels.
I don’t know if it’s the grey hair.
Or just age finally doing its job.
But something shifted.
Patterns became obvious.
People became predictable.
Systems showed their true incentives.
This is what the founder mindset eventually gives you—not optimism, but clarity.
My core beliefs haven’t changed.
Not one bit.
But what those beliefs are about to lead to—my decisions, my risks, my responsibilities—is changing dramatically.
That’s what real leadership during uncertainty looks like.
OMLogic: When Systems Fail, Not People
OMLogic was flourishing.
Momentum.
Clients.
Team energy.
Then came the Google hack.
If you’ve never seen system failures in business drain the life out of a healthy company, you’ve been lucky.
This one didn’t just hit revenue.
It hit morale.
Focus.
Time.
It forced survival mode.
And yes, it’s likely heading toward a lawsuit.
Not out of ego.
Out of necessity.
This is the side of startup leadership and business risk management no one glamorizes.
OMLogic in 2026 either comes out leaner, sharper, and battle-tested—
A case study in operational resilience—
Or this chapter closes having taught lessons success never could.
Either way, it reshapes my entrepreneurial journey.
Solh: Quietly Ready to Take Off
While one company fought friction, another was preparing to bloom.
Solh is ready.
Not “startup ready.”
Not “almost there.”
Execution-ready.
Impact-ready.
Emotionally ready.
This is what building resilient businesses actually feels like—quiet, grounded, unspectacular on the outside.
2026 is where Solh either becomes what it was built to be—
Or shows us what still needs to evolve.
That’s business transformation, not branding.
I’m betting on it.
But I respect reality too much to assume.
That balance is the real entrepreneur mindset.
Geography Is Expanding. So Is Exposure
2026 doesn’t stay local.
- China work is ramping up. Strategic. Complex. Serious.
• Canada continues to surprise and contradict.
• UAE is opening doors that don’t open casually.
• Australia enters the picture for the first time.
This isn’t travel.
It’s global business expansion.
And scaling across geographies doesn’t just bring opportunity.
It brings exposure.
Exposure tests character faster than success ever will.
Especially when you’re making founder decisions with no precedent.
Decisions That Don’t Come With Undo Buttons
Some decisions coming in 2026 will permanently change my life.
Not optimizations.
Not experiments.
Fork-in-the-road decisions.
The kind tied to high-stakes decision making and long-term consequences.
I won’t spell them out yet.
Not for suspense.
For respect.
Some things need to be lived first.
That’s part of long-term business strategy—knowing when not to explain.
Why I’m Calm (And Slightly Excited)
Here’s the part that confuses people.
I’m psyched.
Not because success is guaranteed.
But because meaning is.
If 2026 goes well, it will be spectacular.
If it goes badly, it will still be one hell of a ride.
As my friends like to say:
“Whatever shit goes down, KG will somehow have fun and come out happy.”
They’re right.
Because I stopped measuring years by outcomes a while ago.
I measure them by aliveness.
That shift—away from burnout, toward entrepreneurial resilience—changes everything.
And 2026 is going to be very alive.
Everything Changes in 2026
Career.
Geography.
Responsibilities.
Trajectories.
This is the business outlook for 2026—not predictive, but personal.
My beliefs stay the same.
What they lead to will not.
This isn’t a resolution year.
This is a bet-the-table year.
A year defined by leadership in 2026, not motivation.
And oddly, I’ve never been calmer.
