A New Adventure

My dearest readers,

first of all it is my pleasure to wish you all a happy new year, on to the next one, for it is time get things started! Today’s jump-start message comes straight from the depths, from the abyss of a fortune cookie I received at a Vietnamese restaurant. It stated: “Adventure is not outside; it is within.”

A new year has begun, everyone got his or her resolutions set up and everyone is ready for the new year, twenty fourteen. I hope you could all drag the momentum, the passion, and the perseverance from last year into this one to ultimately commence your new adventure. Get started, go hard, and make this adventure another special one for yourself. When you look back to 2013, though, let not past accomplishments discourage you, let them inspire you, inspire you to jump-start the current year, a journey to the unknown, to new heights, to new accomplishments. When you retrospect, let the past year fuel and encourage you, be inspired to keep up the effort, to go hard like you would always do, because a year, is it not only a temporal boundary, a perimeter to confine a specific time period?

If your heart is ambitious and confident, if your mind is set on ‘polish and shine’ and ready to get things going, the new year is merely a temporal boundary that wears 2014 on its jersey; but that does not affect an ambitious heart and a perseverant mind. If you dive into this ‘new’ adventure every day, all day, and if you’re willing to keep your focus, then you not only have an invincible spirit but further you have no need for new year resolutions, because you’re on it anyways, striving for more, turning this new year into a great challenge to yourself to keep it rolling, no matter what day or week or month or year it is. Then you are ambitious and have already jump-started your year.

If you are starting all over this year, start good and true, be honest to yourself and look at your capabilities, your expertise, talents and get your things together, and get eventually on the road, because the time to do so is now! Go hard today, live today, and determine your tomorrow, for it is all in your hands. It is in your hands to decide, where your life is going, and furthermore, how far you can carry it.

When I was asked about my new year resolutions I didn’t, at first, know what to say, because I had not made my mind up yet, but one thing I can certainly say: that setting goals and having my mind on achieving them, that going hard with heart every day-all day, that approaching any challenge with passion and riding along in perseverance, that going the extra mile, that having my mind on my dreams and my hand on the game, all these traits that have carried me (and that I have carried) through this past year are not resolutions I have for this year, or for any year; these are terms, concepts, and ultimately just traits that characterize me without-within, those are strengths that define me, labels that depict me, words to describe me, because all of the above is who I am; and being relentless?...is a state I’m in; and making my dreams come true?...that is what I do! And I do it every day, and all day, and every week, and every month, and every year…

Jump-start? or living this life? In the end it is up to you—as it was up to me. Getting my year started? Not at all, for it is already on and I’m already in!

And if you are ambitious, after all, this new year, this new adventure has already begun, begun, as the cookie stated: within. Get it going, polish…and shine!