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It is so interesting to me to have these two back to back days, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, that inspire in me to think in two such completely opposite ways. Today feels like a day to look back over the year that was 2009. Though I usually find it much more difficult to look backwards than forwards, if I think of the backwards-looking as serving my forwards-looking I enjoy it much more.

In many ways 2009 has been a difficult year. It was a year of transitions, though not as much as I expect 2010 to be. There were wonderful, celebratory moments (graduating my class in June comes first on my list) and other, more personally challenging moments that don’t need to be mentioned here.

2009 brought me greater opportunity to focus on myself and my personal development than I have had in a long time. This blog, and the self-awareness that it inspires in me, is a big part of that. I am grateful to all of you who read (even if I don’t know who you are, which is kind of strange, isn’t it?) and though I’m finding it challenging to end this post without a single word about looking forward, I’ll end here and save those thoughts for tomorrow.