Happy New Year to everyone. In our culture we like to celebrate New Years as a turning point. It’s popular to look forward after New Years to certain changes we expect to experience, or to set New Years resolutions. Personally, I’ve never been fond of the resolutions idea. I traditionally take a more hard-lined approach that says if you want to set and reach a goal, don’t wait for an excuse to do it. I also normally witness people fail at meeting their resolutions. So why do we do it? Because we all want to change some aspect of our lives, I guess. Normally for me a new year means little more than a change in digits when I date my work. However this time around I actually do have reason to believe this year will be significantly different than the last.

Though the changes I am making to my life have nothing to do with New Years, the timing of it all seems to coincide with the spirit of the holiday rather well. 2010 seems to me to be an auspicious number, and I couldn’t pick a better year to mark a change of lifestyle. I hope everyone else is looking forward to this year as much as I am, and I further hope that this next decade is great for all of us. Cheers!