2010 Has Arrived...Use Your Past To Create Your Future

CLEVELAND - The 1st year of the 2nd decade of the 21st century is now our current and present time. This is the proverbial "clean slate" that gets talked about whenever a new year arrives. Just like the first day of school, every one of us starts out with an "A." Will we maintain that grade, or will we flunk out?

Only time will tell.

Happy New Year, everyone. Today is Friday, January 1, 2010. Where in the world did the time fly to? In any event, each one of us at one time or another has experienced highs and lows, made smart decisions and stupid ones and been filled with flaws and talents. I will use all of those things to dictate the course of my every day life for this year and this decade. I encourage all of you guys out there to do the same.

Use your past to create your future.

I feel as though all of us experience things and are put in certain situations for specific reasons. We may not know or understand why, but I believe that reasons always exist. God wants us to learn or be influenced by a particular person, so he places that person in our life. He wants us to hear something that he knows we need to hear, so he lets us hear or pay attention to a snippet of a television commercial or conversation. That's how I think the world works. So please, use what you see, hear and experience to fuel your mind, wisdom and perspective.

We're all guaranteed to be become better people by doing that!