Happy 2016! First and foremost, I hope that this year is off to a great start, both personally and professionally. To kick off the year, I want to talk about the importance of setting goals. You might ask yourself why setting goals is so important. My mentor educated me on this just a few years ago. He said that without goals, you become like a hamster on a wheel going nowhere, and no one wants to work for, invest in, or be part of a company that is simply spinning its wheels. This analogy gave me the incentive to create goals and move forward. In years past, I would set New Year’s resolutions. To be honest, they would hold for about the first month or two and then wither away, until the next year—kind of like a business plan that is written, printed, and then tucked away to collect dust. However, about three years ago, that all changed for me. I was tired of setting resolutions and not sticking to them. So I set out to change this which, in retrospect, was resolution #1