Each new year offers a quiet moment to choose a guiding intention – something that steadies the mind and shapes the months ahead. Many people are embracing a simple but transformative phrase in 2026 – let it go. Not as an escape from responsibility, but as a healthier way to move through a world that demands resilience, focus and heart.
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Shelly Mayer
Shelly Mayer is the executive director of Professional Dairy Producers. It’s been called the nation's largest dairy-producer-led organization of its kind, focusing on producer professionalism, stakeholder engagement and unified outreach to share ideas, solutions, resources and experiences to help dairy producers succeed. Professional Dairy Producers also reaches outside the scope of dairy to strengthen ties with neighborhoods and communities, to work with and learn from one another, with the aim of securing a better tomorrow for one and all. Visit pdpw.org for more information.
