I doubt anyone will disagree that 2020 was quite a year, unlike others. Nonetheless, the year has come and gone. It is now time to focus on 2021. It is time to take the new year for what it is, a new opportunity, a new door, a new dawn. Indeed, the date change from 12/31/2020 to 1/1/2021 is most significant with Chronos (sequential time change), but the buzz that comes with a new year is most celebrated as Kairos.

Kairos is the opportune time for a change. Kairos is less about the change in time, and more about the moment, the right time, or the critical point of change. Kairos is when the aortic valve opens at the perfect time for the right volume of blood to pump from the left ventricle to the aorta, supplying the rest of the human body. Kairos is when a bullet pierces through the barrel of a gun and strikes the Deer as he attempts to dart through the wilderness while you hunt with your buddies.

Kairos are these examples of the "perfect moment," but Kairos is also when preparation meets opportunity. It is when the lessons of 2020 have prepared you for the victory of 2021. You felt beaten as a rough diamond is maltreated before its allure is observed; you felt abused as a grape trampled upon before it is celebrated as fine wine; you felt defeated as every month seemed to bring its own share of bad news. Now, you must count it all as preparation for greater things to come. 2021 is Kairos.

The use of Carpe Diem is often associated with the day. Please permit me to restate as follows: Seize the Year! Take 2021 by the horn. Understand that you have been given all that you need to execute this new year. The mere fact that you are reading this is a testament to my previous sentence. I need not dwell on the statistics, but here's just 1 number to get you thinking - 59.23 million (the estimated number of deaths in 2020). My brother, my sister, you are not one of those, be thankful for that. Now, quit looking back, for small minds consider the past, average minds consider the present, but great minds consider the future.

May 2021 be our year of victory. Do more; talk less. Get to work.

Best wishes,

L.B.