Stop dragging around yesterday like a ball and chain.


Today is a new opportunity, a clean slate. It is never too late to write a new chapter to your autobiography. It is up to you.

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975.

The Beatles were rejected in 1962 by Decca Records.

Walt Disney's first cartoon production company, Laugh-O-Gram, went bankrupt.

Joan of Arc was illiterate.

Dr. Seuss's first book, "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street," was rejected by 27 publishing houses, and Seuss considered burning the manuscript and giving up writing.

Elvis Presley's music teacher at L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee, gave him a C and told him he couldn't sing.

"All great achievements require time." Maya Angelou

"Life..It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to our expectations." Richard M. DeVos

Here is your blank slate. It is up to you to use a positive attitude to write on it. We can't always control our circumstances but we always have the power to choose how to respond. My New Year's wish is that each of us cast off the negative elements of our yesterdays that hold us back, learn from them and begin creating an amazing today and tomorrow.