Let’s Aim Higher!
I don’t know if you are a fan of New Year’s resolutions, but the last day of 2020 seems the most appropriate time to address that subject.
To put it kindly, 2020 has been a challenging year. There is much talk about flattening the curve, inoculating the majority of the population and returning to normal.
But perhaps “normal” is not what we really want to return to. Perhaps our resolution for 2021 should aim higher? Perhaps we can take the hard lessons we’ve learned from the pandemic, politics, climate change, working from home, and our reinvented selves, and use them to fashion an even better world. Perhaps we should not aspire to return to things as they were, but rather to build things as they could be?
During the last few months I have been working with many others to build a new movement:
To Create a More Inspired World
If you would like to join me in this initiative please comment here and I will be in touch. Members are joining this movement from all over the world and I would love for you and I to carry this torch together into 2021.
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