A New Day a New Spirit

Sunset view in Debrezeyt back in 2014 :)

Experts do say, if you want to be happy, be grateful. This e-mail is to do just that - to express my

gratitude. I have so much to be grateful to you and people like you. I feel indebted for your positive influence and encouragement that I have received this past year and beyond. Without a doubt, I have grown so much, personally and professionally in these past six months.

I admit at the end of each December, I find myself recycling some of my previous New Year resolutions. I nonetheless, like many; I approach the first day of the year with a new energy and a new list of targeted goals. But most of all, a new spirit of can do attitude.

2015 is already looking a promising one, and by all means, I plan to keep it that way. But first, cheers to the just concluded 2014. It was a great year indeed. In 2014, I was fortunate to have met and spend sometime with a lot of successful people whom I call are achievers and doers. People who have contributed and continue to contribute tremendously for the betterment of humanity in their respective arena.

Even though, the lessons I have learned this past year were plenty, the biggest lesson I feel I have absorbed is, how the achievers seem to share one particular characteristic. They all seem to be driven by their fear of failure as much as they are driven by the clarity of their vision. It is as if they share a trait that is almost egotistical. It is a pride thing to many of them, some sort of an innately understood measure of self-worth. They are very decisive individuals, and subsequently, prioritizing comes naturally to them. They could find themselves in the presence of the most important people, and yet, they are unfazed by it. They waste no time, if it does not contribute to their overall goal somehow. They do what they want. They don’t yield. They lead.

There is so much to be learned from meeting and spending time with new faces in new places. It allows you to enter their space and observe things from their perspective, however small of a window that might be. When you are genuinely curious to learn why people do what they do? What drives them? Why some people go far in life where others have failed? You start to look at things differently. You start to lose your point of reference from which you are used to judge people’s actions or there lack off. Instead, you start to see things from their view as though you are following their visual patter through one glimpse of snap shot at a time. You get stimulated, and subconsciously you start to adapt their ways. There, in the process, you pick up cues why they do what they do, and like that, learning happens to you.

With a little luck make it a fulfilling year to you and your loved ones.

Be the brighter star of the day,

But, if your zodiac calls for the night

Then be a full Moon

and reflect the sunlight.

Best of wishes from Ethiopia

~ Daniel

 

Enjoying a coffee break with coworkers