New Year, Old Year

Well everyone, it has been an intense and harrowing year, filled with tragedies both local as well as national. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, issues across the socio-political spectrum have exposed deep fissures of suffering, bigotry, and injustice.

There have also been bright spots, from adventures in Zoom to community charity events, but these have largely been muted by the overarching reality that has faced us starkly and unavoidably. In no way has this been more painful than in the lives of approximately 450,000 Americans who have died as a result of the coronavirus.

That said, here are my resolutions for 2021:

1. Healing my mind & body. This goes from exercise to diet to medical treatment to therapy and beyond. As I move through my mid 30's with my wife and children, I can't be as cavalier about these issues anymore as I was in my 20's.

2. Cultivating habits for happiness. I mean really reprioritizing professional and personal activities with better boundaries, such as ending meetings that could be emails or playing family board games instead of watching movies.

3. Reclaiming my time. Whether it's lack of sleep or too much social media drama or something else. Life is too short to waste any more precious moments on distractions from what I actually want or need to be doing to create the impact I want in my life.

Now, as I end this last post of 2020, I would like to share something simply amazing, hilarious, and wholesome that I hope to be a harbinger of the kind of energy I want to bring into 2021.

With that, I wish you all a very happy new year!