Week Fifty-Two: Jesse Sample’s Freak of the Week “Start It Up”

Jesse Sample’s Freak of the Week airs EVERY WEDNESDAY at 6pm Eastern ONLY on RadioRadioX.com

This is Jesse Sample. The New Year gets many of us thinking about the things we’d like to get better. I know I’ve been making resolutions ever since I can remember. For some of us, it’s a fresh start. We make our plans and sometimes we even follow through. We consider what’s important to us and we set out to give it a go. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I aspire to in 2026. I’ve started contracts, diets and exercise regimens on New Years Day, and they’ve all served me pretty well. I could plan out another diet and that’s a fine move. The things we eat effect our health now and into the future. I could commit to practice Spanish more and create standards to make sure I’m being honest in my efforts. It’s worked before and I made some real moves. I could post to social media every day and create consequences if I don’t. I’ve done that and if I stuck with it, who knows where I’d be?  These are all useful things but this year, I feel something different is in order.

Let’s cook all these goals down to something more quintessential. Let’s focus. I want to bring a better part of myself to my relationships and my art. These two genres of life are where my soul eats the best. They serve each other. For 2026, I want to wake up my old ambitions, dust off those quintessential tools and skill sets, and bring them to bear in the subtle art of family and expression. Health is the vehicle, and practice is the clean fuel that keeps that machine tune and powerful.