A thankful beginning to the new year

Happy New Year! How were your holidays? Did your team win its bowl game? How was New Year’s Eve? Did you manage to stay up late enough to see the ball drop? Now, here’s the kicker: How many of your new year’s resolutions have you already blown?I definitely feel you on that last one. So much so that I am going to take an entirely different approach this year and not make any traditional resolutions. Instead I am going to begin my year, both professionally and personally, with a listing of some of the wonderful people and things for which I am thankful. Using that list, I plan to make a single, solitary resolution. Each time things get sticky or tough, every time life throws me a curveball, the first thing I will do is refer back to that list so that whatever reaction I have to a setback is launched from a place of gratitude.