Happy New Year! (Photo: Tyla'75)
Every year, I create a motto. Last year’s motto was “Get It Straight In 2008!”
I just returned from overseas. I spent over a week traveling through the villages, cities, and hamlets of Ireland. After driving over a thousand miles through the beautiful historic countrysides, I found my inspiration for this year’s motto. The motto for the year will be:
Let It Shine In 2009
What does that mean to me? To me it means the following:
- To be more authentic.
- To be more fun.
- To be more friendly.
- To communicate my feelings more freely and clearly.
- To allow my spirit and my will to be freed from pessimism.
- To allow others to see the joy in my life.
Many of you have done resolutions, some of you have already broken them. I don’t have a resolution for this year. I just have my motto. I will use this motto when I am faced with the obstacles that will come, the challenges that will be placed in front of me and the hard decisions that I will have to make in the near future.
Yet this year, in everything that I do, I’m going to make it shine. I want to make it shine around me. So that my sphere of influence will see that, like the apostle Paul, I am content in all of my circumstances. And I will fight the good fight!
If you would like to join me in letting it shine into 2009, leave me a comment or subscribe to this blog.
This year is going to be one of the most important years of my life and yours. We are all going to have to work smarter, more efficiently, effectively and say no more often than we ever had before, but I promise you this… There will be a select few of you, who will walked with me all the way to December 31. When we both look back on 2009, for all the heartache and happiness that it brought, we will be able to say “We Shined in 2009!”
Moving Forward,
Kendall Matthews
