A New Year’s Resolution We Can All Keep
No matter how your look at it, this is a wonderful season. People of all viewpoints reflect on the past year and make resolutions for the New Year; we treasure family relationships and celebrate friendships. For my part, I couldn’t be happier. eXpresso is growing by leaps and bounds, and people like you are benefitting from eXpresso and fueling our success. Thank you.
Many of you are focused on your own businesses and careers. That’s not only understandable, but admirable. And of course, I wish you all the best for the New Year. But after 59 years of relationships with family members, my kids, friends, customers, and business associates, let me share my best advice: Pay forward!
We have all benefitted by a teacher, a relative, friend, or colleague who went out of their way to help us with absolutely no expectation of return of benefit. Instead of paying them back, we can best thank them by paying forward: extending their wisdom and caring to someone we think can use a boost.
Paying Forward means contributing to someone’s success, not because there’s anything in it for you, but because someone helped us and now we can contribute some insight or support for the next guy or gal, without expectation of credit. Paying Forward in the New Year is one of my annual resolutions. I hope you will make it one of yours too!
On the business front, sincere thanks to you for supporting eXpresso this past year. We continue to get emails from users who are discovering new uses for Excel by sharing and managing the files in eXpreesso. That’s very gratifying, and I hope you will keep us up on your “inventions”. There are exciting things planned for eXpresso in 2009 that I think you will really like, including adding Word and PowerPoint. Next year will see tremendous growth for us, and I’m glad you will be a part of it.
I wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year.
George,
Pay forward and give feedback to individuals you value. I wrote a post on this topic a year ago. Click on my name if you are interested to read my post, Writing down new resolving thoughts.
Have a commercial X-mas and a prosperous New Year!