What kind of year will this be, 2023?    What will happen with inflation and interest rates?  What will happen with Ukraine thanks to that crazy little man in the Kremlin?  Will this be the year Donald Trump finally fades away into history?  (What a wonderful thought)!   Will we keep any New Year’s resolutions we made this past weekend?   I’ve talked before about how many of us don’t bother to make any resolutions, thinking why bother?  Well, I think it’s not bad to bother.  It’s a good idea to make a resolution, to make a promise to ourselves that we are going to try to achieve a goal that has so far proven elusive.  Notice that I said try as opposed to promise to do.  That’s because it is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all.  If we don’t even, try we have a zero chance of success.  But, if we give it a try, we at least have SOME chance of succeeding.   Everyone has some kind of goal in mind, whether to lose weight, quit smoking, find a better job, find a partner, mend fences with an in-law.  Just pick one, keep it simple, give it a go, and remember, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  Here’s to an improvement in our personal life in 2023!

That’s Coffeetalk.  I’m Vic Dubois.