This past year has been super hard on everyone on this entire planet. There isn’t a soul that COVID hasn’t touched. There have been stages of sadness, fear, relief, hope and grief. And while so many people did die or get very ill from this pandemic and coronavirus, we made strides to find a cure, help each other, do the right thing, be better humans. We gained resilience. We became smarter and more thoughtful. We started to really understand what “grit” was and how to do hard things.

This year I worked on a life force statement for myself. This is something that puts my values and hopes into one short phrase on how I want to live life. It started very long but got shorter and shorter until it was just “make each day count”. So, that’s it… my goal is to do that every day. And to do that, I must live boldly. I must be brave. And try to live life with few regrets and take every opportunity that comes in work and with friends and family and community.

Be kind, be true, be brave and be bold in 2022. The world can be hard place sometimes, but if your mindset is that there is hope, you will see light. If you do good, you will feel good. And if you feel good, you will have made every day count.