Happy 2019! First and foremost, I hope that this year is off to a great start and that it is a wonderful year for you both personally and professionally. To kick off the year, I want to talk about the importance of setting goals. You might ask yourself why it is so important to have goals. 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 was a very influential visual for me and enough to give me the incentive to create goals and always be moving 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 and not thought of again 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 fo