New Beginnings

February 1, 2012 How time has flown!  With this article, I will have completed one whole year of sharing my thoughts with you, my readers.  Appropriately, this also marks my final submission as a writer to this column.  While I will surely miss you all, it is true that all things (even good ones) must come to an end.

As is often the case in life, the end of one thing becomes the beginning of another.  For me, today has come to signify the official start to what is looking like an exciting new year of the dragon.  

Now, is today really such a special day?  What makes today the official start and not tomorrow?  Why not the first of January?  Well, the answer is quite simple: it is because I said so.  I told myself that today would be the end to all the things I set out to cleanse my life of and that from this day forth, I will work harder to become the man I want to be.  I told myself that today and everyday after would become the most important days of my life.  I also told myself that today will become the end to everything I thought I knew and the first of many moments in personal re-discovery. 

You may be curious as to where this sudden resolve comes from.  To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself.  Maybe it’s my upcoming Mandarin album, solo concert, stage musical and other challenging career developments.  Maybe it’s my recent realization that I can and should be so much better for my family, loved ones and friends.  Maybe it’s all of the above.  What’s important though, is that I made a decision.  And you can too.

If there’s something you don’t like in your life, change it.  If there’s something your heart says you need to do, do it.  If there’s something you want to be, be it.  You don’t need the New Year, your birthday, graduation or a promotion to tell you when you can change your life.  Today is the day.

-JWo