Before you write down a single goal this year, there's a resolution underneath all of them that will determine whether any of it actually sticks.

Find your brothers.

Not drinking buddies. Not guys you swap fantasy football stats with. Not the friends who tell you what you want to hear.

Brotherhood built on a different foundation.

Most relationships are based on proximity. Convenience. Shared interests. The Iron Council is built on something else entirely. Accountability and self mastery. Men who are doing the work on themselves and demand the same from the men around them.

Here's the problem with going it alone. You only know what you know. And you can't see what you can't see.

The blind spots that are holding you back? They're invisible to you. That's what makes them blind spots. It's not until you get around men who've fought battles you haven't, who've solved problems you're still stuck on, who see you more clearly than you see yourself, that the real growth happens.

You want this year to be different?

Stop surrounding yourself with men who make you comfortable. Find men who make you better.

That's the resolution beneath every other resolution.

Get that one right and the rest will follow.