2008 was a pretty intense year for us, all of us. Okay that might have been a bit of an understatement.
We – the bee and me – moved to Switzerland, the world suffered through the worst economic crisis since the depression. That’s looking like a tie right now.
We got to visit Rome, Portugal, New York (over new years, pictures will be on Flickr soon). The US elected Obama. Think the US beat us on that one, just.
I did pretty good on my resolutions from last year. Read 37 books, so just short of my target but not bad. I’m ending the year not quite in my 1998 shape, but closer then I was at the beginning of the year. I blogged a fair amount – except when I went under the radar for the last three weeks – think 8 posts a month was met. .
But I sucked at staying in touch with friends, one friend – who I called one of my closest friends, didn’t even know we had moved to Switzerland! And as for multi tasking less, pffft not even close.
So for 2009, hopefully I’ll continue the good trends and right the ones that slipped away last year. I have a couple of new ones to add as well but to be honest their really personal and I can’t blog about them right now – but when I can I will. Let’s just say that there are three and one’s physical/emotional, one’s spiritual and one’s financial.
So instead let’s make some predictions for the world.
Good and Green get better – I think 2009 will be the year that Good businesses and Green businesses tip, just call it a hunch induced by all the Emergen-c I’ve been taking this year, being sick will do that too you. Also, I think the deep crisis financially that’s hit everything that walks will force people to invest in good businesses – and doing good leads to good business if you ask me.
Obama reality check – I love Barack, he is my homeboy most definitely. We have a lot of commonalities, and I really hope he kicks butt as President of the United States. But I have a hunch that this is the year we get past the colour issue and watch performance. The left leaning media will take the kid gloves off and he’s going to have some serious issues to resolve, I wish him luck, but I think he’ll have to work through a bit of a dip before he can really excel.
Small business boom – I think 2009 will be the year that a lot of people will go into business for themselves, sound businesses. I don’t think we’ll see too many crazy IPO’s – sorry f’book fans – but I bet in 2010/2015 we’ll be using a lot of businesses started over the next couple of years.
Overall I think, this year is going to be a cleansing year on micro and macro levels and after 2008 that’s what we all need.
