Appreciating the Old in the New Year

To know where you’re going you must know where you came from.   
 
That quote gets credited to everyone from Cicero to Buddha to Will Smith to Yoda. Safe to say, it’s a pretty universally accepted truth. It’s true with basic navigation unless you know your current location, you will never know which direction you need to head to reach your desired destination.
 
So today is the first day of the New Year a time for new beginnings! A time for clean slates. A time for starting over. A time for resolutely trying harder to be better than we were last year.[…]