
“Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
The new year has arrived, with about as much celebration and dread as various factions can muster.
We wonder: Will it be a good year? A terrible year? Will I be able to break my bad habits and forge a new beginning?
It’s a time of year when hope grabs us by the throat, suggesting that the year ahead holds many possibilities, some of which are within our power to grasp.
Enter the New Year’s resolutions.
We have the best of intentions, but the reality is these are gestures aimed at pleasing our logical selves. What we do (or don’t do) with them is the result of our discipline and willpower.
We’ll talk about process discipline and leadership in a future newsletter, but for now, let’s focus on hope.
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