2010 is just days away and it’s that time. The time to try and come up with something or anything that will help me be a better person over the next 365 days or so. The time to ask myself if I do indeed want to simply be the same as I was this year or do I want to take a flying leap into the unknown?

I think this year calls for a flying leap. The years are growing on me and within the next two years I’ll be dangerously close to turning thirty years old. As thirty is a stones throw from forty I figure I should do everything I can to be the man I want to be this year. It’s an effort to look at my future through a very long lens.

As I grow older I see the benefits of changing habits and life choices. As a stroke survivor this line of thinking is magnified thousandfold. With the risk of a second brain malfunction hanging over me in the wings I’ve got to take the reins on the horse of life and make it my own. The time is now. It all starts here. And I can do it.

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