Happy New Year!!! I returned to work today after a wonderful ten day break for the holidays! New World Library (the publisher I work for) closes between Christmas and New Year's...Something every employer should do in my opinion! I returned to work feeling rested and ready to create lots of magic for the books and authors I am promoting this season. 2008 is going to be great!!!
Another fabulous thing that New World Library does at the end of each year is provide a percentage of our profits to each employee to donate to a charity of their choice! Again, just think what a better place the world would be if all companies gave back in this way! I divided my money between two non-profits...a new healing center in San Francisco called the Artemis Center where one of my sheros Karen Junker is starting a new program called Sunday School for Grown-ups....and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation because one of my best friends in the whole world has CF and I want her to be around for as long as possible!
I spent Christmas in Indiana with my family and had a wonderful time. Santa was quite good to me....and getting to spend quality time with my family, especially my nieces and nephews, is truly priceless! I love them all so much.
Instead of making New Year's Resolutions, I choose to set New Year's intentions instead...and I thought I would share some of them here:
*I intend to complete my manuscript this year.
*I intend to appreciate life as the magical adventure it is with grace and a sense of adventure in my heart.
*I intend to joyfully embrace self-discpline through meditation and regular physical exercise...which means more skipping of course!
*I intend to devote my God given talents and personal power - mentally, spiritually, and physically - to the greater good.
And so it is! Here's hoping that 2008 brings us all a big step closer to the realization of our wildest dreams. Skip on!
2 comments:
Hi, Kim. I did not know that CF had touched your life. One of the main reasons I came out of retirement to work at Vertex pharmaceuticals is that we are closing in on an extraordinary therapy for CF -- this medication would actually undo the genetic glitch that causes the symptoms. I suspect big drug companies would not touch this -- currently on 30,000 people are living with CF in the US -- sadly in part because life expectancy is 33 years. In fact we are working closely with the CF foundation to bring this drug to market. We need to get by several hurdles, but I believe in my heart we will succeed. - Bill N.
Great blog!
I know you're going to make everyone of your 2008 intentions come true and quite a few others you aren't even aware of right now.
You deserve everything wonderful, skipper friend of mine.........
Happy new year!!
Martha
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