We are made wise not by the recollection of the past but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw.

A new year can often portend breaking with a past that isn’t working for you anymore and starting out in a new direction.

Whatever that new direction, it almost always means some sort of change and having the courage to take a big leap of faith.

Making that leap – with intention – is an essential part of the innovative process. But every entrepreneur and doer knows this.

It’s about venturing into unknown territory but not letting all the necessary things you still have to do wear you down; not waiting for your peers or or the marketplace or an arbitrary deadline to get started.

We’re living in changing, stressful times, times demanding that we be the very best version of ourselves that we can be.

If you are truly committed to yourself, you’ll know when it’s the right time and you’ll figure it out as you move forward, one step at a time, one day at time, for as long as it takes.

This isn’t for everybody, I know, but you’re not everybody.

In today’s environment, you’re either in or you’re out.

It’s your call.