Hopefully everyone has shaken off the cobwebs from an incredible holiday season. I was very fortunate in that I was able to take an extended break over the holidays and spend time at home with my immediate family and friends. It is amazing how the perspective of my four year old daughter helped keep me grounded during the winter holidays. Our daughter didn't even ask Santa for anything specific this year. She said that if Santa brought her anything she would appreciate whatever she received. That was probably the best gift that my wife and I could have ever asked for. It really did make Christmas morning that much more special for us this year.
So now that we are officially into 2012, and I am rapidly approaching my 39th birthday in a couple of days, what is next? I have never been a big fan of New Year's resolutions as I feel like we should all be striving for improvement throughout the entire year, and not just in the New Year. That being said, pick one thing. What is the one thing that you can commit to in order to make yourself better and more importantly, make others around you better? Find one thing that you can commit to doing once a week for the next 52 weeks. What if you committed to spending 30 more minutes per week with your team members at work, or your family or your friends? That is translates to 26 hours over the course of a year, or a little over 1 day. How much impact could you have on someone if you spent an extra day with them? How much would it mean to you if someone you respected and cared about spent an extra day with you over the course of 2012?
Make sure you take advantage of your time and abilities over the next 52 weeks and share those skills with someone. Make 2012 be the year that you resolve to leave your mark on someone or something...Good luck!
