Happy New Year 2009 in a world of possibilities !

I wish you all a very good year in 2009 both personal and professional. 2009 is predicted to be hard and difficult and may be it will be if we pay too much attention to the sad and solemn official speech that our French President did the 31 th of December in which he almost promised to french people "blood, sweat and tears". However i think 2009 will be what we will do with it, seizing all the opportunities and deciding by ourselves to find out or to reinvent some projects, aims and expectations in order to achieve and exceed them. "Crisis ? What Crisis?" said the progressive rock band Supertramp 30 years ago ! and Seth Godin himself wrote in his in his last post (apart from the fact he doesn't like usually news years event, what a funny guy!) : "The place where expectations are lowest: leadership. Everyone expects you to get in line and follow, not lead.The opportunity this year is bigger than ever: to lead change, to create a movement in a direction you want to go. While the rest of your world huddles and holds back, here's a golden chance to use cheap media, available attention and great talent to make something that matters". Another interesting thought is given by the Chinese language for which the word Crisis is the combination of two different characters : the first character means Danger and the second character means Opportunity. So rather living in the the world of "it is too difficult" the world of "complaints", "it can't be done", the world of "no chance, the resource is not here", "it's hopeless", the world of "people can't be better than they are" the world of "survival and scarcity" we can decide on the contrary to live in 2009 in another world that is the world called by Benjamin Zander the world of possibilities !