Welcome 2024! Can you believe 2024 is here already? Yes, time really does fly like a jet plane.
With 2023 in the rear-view mirror, let's look forward to making 2024 really special!
January is the time of beginnings. It's a very special time because it sets the tone for all we do the rest of the year.
Let's start the New Year off right by being grateful for all our accomplishments in 2023!
Write down your biggest successes of the past year and make a short list of the actions you're going to take to replicate the successes in the New Year.
Do the same for those areas in which you might have fallen short and write down what you've learned as a result. Harvest insights!
Next, declutter. Declutter - definition, (verb), remove unnecessary items; remove things you do not need or have room for, in order to make space for that which is more pleasant or useful. That pretty much says it all, don't you think?
Start working on your 2024 goals and objectives now!
Identify S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely) goals and objectives that you wish to accomplish in 2024.
Next, devise clear actions to reach those goals and objectives. And be sure to set target dates for their achievement.
Oh, and don't forget self-care. That's vitally critical for your success in the New Year!
My personal goal for 2024, in brief, is become a better person than I was this time last year, and to make my own modest contribution to making our world a better place.
Wishing Everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2024!!
BTW, I'd like to share some of my current favorite reads with all the book lovers like me out there:
The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kindle
A Promised Land, Barack Obama, Kindle
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, Hardcover
Behind the Scenes, Elizabeth Keckley, (1868), Paperback
The Bible, Olive Tree Bible App, YouVersion App, and several hardcover print translations.
Brave. Black. First. 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World, Cheryl Willis Hudson, Illustrated by Erin K. Robinson, Hardcover
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson, Kindle
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter, William Wells Brown, (1853), Kindle
Coffee Table Poetry, Regina Long Southall, Paperback
Four Hundred Souls, Edited by Lbram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, Kindle
Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjai-Brenyah, Paperback
The Life and Reign of the Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, Maurice Platnauer
The President's Daughter, Bill Clinton and James Patterson, Hardcover
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, General Editors, Paperback
Romola, George Eliot
Sankofa, Chibundu Onuzo, Kindle
Stolen Legacy, George G. M. James, Kindle
The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison, Kindle
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, Hardcover
What's on your nightstand?
Art below: 'A Portrait of the Author as a Young Man.'
With 2023 in the rear-view mirror, let's look forward to making 2024 really special!
January is the time of beginnings. It's a very special time because it sets the tone for all we do the rest of the year.
Let's start the New Year off right by being grateful for all our accomplishments in 2023!
Write down your biggest successes of the past year and make a short list of the actions you're going to take to replicate the successes in the New Year.
Do the same for those areas in which you might have fallen short and write down what you've learned as a result. Harvest insights!
Next, declutter. Declutter - definition, (verb), remove unnecessary items; remove things you do not need or have room for, in order to make space for that which is more pleasant or useful. That pretty much says it all, don't you think?
Start working on your 2024 goals and objectives now!
Identify S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely) goals and objectives that you wish to accomplish in 2024.
Next, devise clear actions to reach those goals and objectives. And be sure to set target dates for their achievement.
Oh, and don't forget self-care. That's vitally critical for your success in the New Year!
My personal goal for 2024, in brief, is become a better person than I was this time last year, and to make my own modest contribution to making our world a better place.
Wishing Everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2024!!
BTW, I'd like to share some of my current favorite reads with all the book lovers like me out there:
The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kindle
A Promised Land, Barack Obama, Kindle
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, Hardcover
Behind the Scenes, Elizabeth Keckley, (1868), Paperback
The Bible, Olive Tree Bible App, YouVersion App, and several hardcover print translations.
Brave. Black. First. 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World, Cheryl Willis Hudson, Illustrated by Erin K. Robinson, Hardcover
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson, Kindle
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter, William Wells Brown, (1853), Kindle
Coffee Table Poetry, Regina Long Southall, Paperback
Four Hundred Souls, Edited by Lbram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, Kindle
Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjai-Brenyah, Paperback
The Life and Reign of the Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, Maurice Platnauer
The President's Daughter, Bill Clinton and James Patterson, Hardcover
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, General Editors, Paperback
Romola, George Eliot
Sankofa, Chibundu Onuzo, Kindle
Stolen Legacy, George G. M. James, Kindle
The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison, Kindle
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, Hardcover
What's on your nightstand?
Art below: 'A Portrait of the Author as a Young Man.'
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