👉 Most founders look back at the end of the year and try to make sense of the results. They analyze numbers, milestones, missed goals, and unexpected outcomes. 👉 It feels logical to evaluate success where it is most visible . Yet that moment is usually the worst place to look for answers. What if the most important part of the year already passed long before those results showed up? 👉 What if the real leverage was never in the metrics but in the choices made when everythi