Here's to 2021 and the Changes Ahead

Happy New Year!

I have written before that I really like the perspectives shared by Brian Kight.  He is a writer and speaker who focuses on reaching your goals.  I get his daily email messages from DailyDiscpline.com and below is today's message.  I thought you might also like the insight from today's message because it is so spot on.  As a high school student, just like we all do, you think you know all that is ahead of you.  But the reality is that change is the only constant and your ability to adapt and make these changes (that have been hard) will be valuable to your future when you realize that you CAN make hard changes and that they can, and will, lead you to success.  Here's to a new year and all the changes that it will inevitably bring.

Remember this day last year? Before you ever heard the phrase “social distancing”. Wearing masks in public was just on Halloween. Lockdowns and quarantines only happened in movies. This day last year you had no idea what was ahead for you. But for the most part, you thought you did. You had schedules. You had plans. You had resolutions. You had a vision for the year. Routines felt relatively secure. Patterns felt pretty normal. Then everything changed. You were forced to change with it. Almost everything around you changed in some way. Your home. Your family. Your work. Emotions. Experiences. Expectations. Here we are again at the starting line of a new year still in the dawn of a new decade. We don’t know what’s ahead but that doesn’t stop us from preparing ourselves. Change is the constant and sometimes it takes a big one that shakes the foundations to remind us of that. Last year was a not-so-gentle reminder that no matter how comfortable you are in a routine, it never lasts. 2020’s legacy lesson is that there is no such thing as normal. There’s just the routine you’re in for the moment. Prepare yourself to grow in the face of an uncertain future. - Brian Knight