It is hard to believe that it is now seven years since we all waited to see if the world as we knew it would stop and calamity might follow as the clock led us to 2000, Y2K. Remember? It turned out not to be very important.

But this year is different. I believe that this is a crucial year for our country. Saddam is dead, and the fate of the Middle East and much of our future may be at stake in the next twelve months.

Like every end of year/beginning of new year, I have done my reflection and my next year’s purpose and planning. But sometimes in doing your planning, you realize that you are truly at a crossroads in your life. It came to me that 007 will be that way for me personally. I have to make some major life decisions and achieve some major milestones this year. If I do not, things will not go as well as I want. Many people can stay the same, coast along, and do the next year pretty much the same as they did the last year. I cannot. And it may be, that you cannot either. If so, may it go well for both of us.