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New Year Brings New Hope and Promises

New Year Brings New Hope and Promises

PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK

Ted Owen

Goodbye 2002, and hello 2003!

When a new year is ushered in it brings with it fantasy, forecasts of better things to come, and hopes for prosperity and opportunity.

John Burroughs, the 19th century American naturalist, put it very nicely when he said, “It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”

As time wore on he wrote many wonderful words but here are a couple of his thoughts I would like to share with you.

“Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.”

And lastly, “Nature teaches us more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.”

All three of his messages are relevant when we ponder the new year. None of us can control the past, but it’s thinking about the future that inspires the most thoughts of goodness and prosperity.

As we ring in the New Year, it is my fervent hope that all 365 days are full of success for each of us. I know for sure that if we can each handle the fear in our lives, prosperity is just around the corner. Opportunity knocks more than once, but you have to be home to answer the door.

As we prepare for the next 12 months, please take a few moments to think back on the good things you have experienced in the old year. Reflection can be very insightful. Every day that passes, a scientist discovers a new cure or drug to treat what ails us. Every day we mature a little bit more and handle life’s opportunities for success a little easier.

The uninformed mind almost always says no to opportunity. A positive thinker always says why not.

In 2003, let’s try to say why not a lot more than no. John Wesley, a 18th century theologian, put it on the line for us.

“Do all the good you can.

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.”

This issue of the paper is our annual Year in Preview issue. A preview is quite different than a forecast. We have partnered with the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche to survey the same 500 to 600 businesses every year and they tell us what they are REALLY going to do. We then interview and write about what the new year is going to really do.

Also, in this issue is the first Editor’s Notebook of the Journal’s new editor, John Hollon. John replaces Martin Hill who led our editorial team for a decade. John is a veteran of more than 20 years as an editor. He has been the executive editor of the Honolulu Advertiser, editor of the Great Falls Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in Montana, assistant managing editor of the Orange County Register, and supervising editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He has won the Gannett President’s Ring as one of the company’s 10 Best Editors as well as a Gannett Most Improved Newspaper award. Please feel free to e-mail, call or write to John and let him know what you like or dislike about our coverage of the region’s business. His number is (858) 277-6359, and his e-mail is jhollon@sdbj.com.

I want to thank our loyal readers, advertisers and the finest newspaper staff in the country for all their support. Let’s all remember, “Courage and confidence are what decision-making is all about. Make 2003 your year for deciding to be fearless!

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