January03.mov | Mark E. Sackett

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! I've always loved this quote and posted it before. Each New Year I reread it to see if my perspective has changed. This year it has. “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night I think that we all play it a little safe, the past is known, comfortable and as Beryl said often perceived as better. In 2017 don’t play it safe. Don’t look at this coming year as formidable. You are right where you are supposed to be, doing right what you are supposed to be doing. Now how you choose your next steps, actions or goals is the key. Don’t operate from fear, anger or loneliness operate from joy, creativity and what I like to call “Left of Center” thinking. You are surround here by a network of people struggling just like you! Together we will continue to do great things. Now leave that place, leave 2016 far behind and throw yourself into this new year with a smile and a desire to help others using #MYGIVE4. "The Art of Active Networking" and this community are here for you every single day. I have every confidence in you and in what we can do together. Help us bring "The Art of Active Networking" to even more cities by considering a donation to our crowdrise campaign here: https://www.crowdrise.com/mygive4-and-the-art-of-active-networking Be Well, Be Creative, Be Great, Be Giving! Mark E. Sackett 415-602-9500 Tickets: http://www.TheArtofActiveNetworking.com Connect with me: http://www.markesackett.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theartofactivenetworking/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/activenetworkin