With probably the most difficult and challenging year any of us has ever experienced, and the birth of a new hope on the horizon, 2021 is a pivotal moment, because it offers us a sense of optimism, a sense that—even if not immediately—this year WILL indeed be a much better year for us all. As grim as 2020 has been, I believe that we can make the past actually pay for our future. I believe that we should take the seed from every sorrow life hands us, instead of getting trapped in the sorrow, stay in there long enough that the pain and sorrow has a point and a purpose, such that the pain makes us better humans for the future.
In the book of Proverbs Chapter 27, King Solomon teaches that a good Person fails seven times, and rises. The painful past of 2020 has forced us to fail and to suffer. I believe that we can rise to even greater heights if we disallow the external forces of fear and uncertainty into our lives, and instead become transformed by the life skill I call ‘Pivoting’ which requires an internal willingness to let go and to unlearn the things that we would otherwise find attachment and certainty in. In developing our personal, business and communal lives, let us reinvent ourselves to be different versions of ourselves in 2021, using the past year of Covid, to become masters in the art of ‘Pivoting’.
Wishing you a Happy 2021.
Daniel