What's Next?

The lights on our holiday tree are still twinkling brightly as if to say, I'm still here...notice me? Gift bags and boxes, now empty and absent of adornment, have been flattened and organized, awaiting their next purpose. Family and friends have headed back to their respective cities and lives, awaiting what's next as the New Year fast approaches.

What's next for you? What awaits you in 2008? As you have been scurrying about this holiday season, doing this and that, going here and there, arriving and departing intended destinations, what have you been brewing up, chewing on and/or stewing about as it relates to next year, 2008?

Find a new job? Get a degree? Finish a certification? Earn that promotion? Make more money? Start a business? Write a book? Relocate? Start over? Switch careers? Reinvent self? Resign your position? Create a blog? Retire? Enter the workforce? Buy a business? Pursue graduate school?

Last Friday, I attended a Teacher Education Convocation for graduates of a university's School of Education. The 35-year-old keynote speaker said something that has stuck with me since. He said that he loves being a teacher and as a teacher, he offered this definition of success: it is not how many digits are in your paycheck, it is how you make a difference in the lives of others on a day-by-day basis.

Success. What's next for you? How will you define success in 2008? How will you make a difference in the lives of others in 2008?

posted by: billiesucher