New Year, New Decade - Welcome to the 20's!

Welcome to the 20's, pun intended. Get it? 2020, the 20's? I'm sure you got it the first time, I'm just a bit nervous, it's my first time here - well, not here here, but like ... doing this.

Ironically, I decided to use my first blog to share some thoughts about time, and hopefully start a few meaningful conversations, or at least give you some food for thought.

I think it's safe to say that 2019 was an "interesting" year for most people. I've heard enough people say "2019 showed me flames", myself included, to feel safe making that assumption. 2019 was a lot mate, a lot lot! But ... that is not what we are going to focus on today. Because I once heard someone say it's the best and the worst of times. So while it might have been a tough year for a lot of us, it was also a great year for a lot of other people. There's over 7 billion of us ... surely the universe can't give all of us a tough time (even if that was the case, Miss Universe is one of us now - I have faith in you Zozi!).

So here we are, those of us that 'survived' 2019 are thinking to ourselves new year, new decade! And that's what I want us to focus on - new year, new decade!

Something Bishop TD Jakes said caught my attention and I have been thinking about it ever since. "The measure of a good or bad year should be whether or not it got you closer to the goals you set for the decade." Because honestly speaking, we measure a lot of things in decades. We talk about music from the 60's, fashion from the 80's and even kids from the 90's. So in the long run, decades are what we remember, if we manage to remember anything at all.

So the new question becomes, how was your decade? If you summed up your wins and losses from 2010 to 2019, which side of the scale do things tip towards? I think it's safe to say most of us had more W's that L's in the last decade - well at least I know I did.

There's another 'assessment tool' we can use, but I think we can have that conversation later (hopefully you'll come back).

Going into the new decade, I'd like to propose (to those of us who aren't doing it) that we start things off with decade goals. Who do you want to be a decade from now? Where do you want to be 10 years from now? What do you want to be doing? Use that as a guide - a 20/20 vision, and set yearly goals that are in line with you 20/20 vision. And when this year is done, look back and ask yourself did I move closer to my decade goals? And if the answer is yes, well guess what, you would have had a good year (despite all the struggles you went through). And if the answer is no, chin up, you've still got 9 more years to go!

I was gonna say something deep and round it off with well wishes for the next decade, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of each other. So let me end off with this: the next time I see you, I wanna hear all about your goals for the decade!

Welcome to the 20's!