The document discusses the coming new year and making positive changes in the world. It encourages taking time at the end of the year to thank others, reflect on the past year, and make plans for self-improvement and impacting issues like poverty, climate change, and social change over the coming 365 days. It suggests learning everyday, questioning everything, sharing with others, and keeping an open mind to enact change and make the world better.

1. ¡Happy Holidays !

2. Get a calendar…

3. What’s today’s date?

4. Did you know that December 31st doesn’t really exist? x

5. Neither there’s such thing as a “year’s end” x x x x x x x x x x

6. Earth doesn’t care, and it keeps spinning anyway

7. Even so, for many of us, year’s end is a moment for stopping

8. … a space to thank all the people who joined us during this time…

9. … and an opportunity to think about the things we’ll be doing the next 365 days

10. Lose weight Do more exercise Travel more Get more $$$    

11. But there’s someone with serious problems, besides us, who needs attention…

12. poverty / / hunger

13. climate change

14. We live now in a very complex world

15. What are we going to do the next 365 days in order to change the world? ? ? ? ?    

16. Learn everyday Question everything Share with others Open our mind     ? 

17. You must become the change you want to see in the world… -- Gandhi “ ”

18. No one else will do it for us

19. We need you to make that change

20. Here’s to a 2009 that let us change the world…

21. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Diego Ernesto Leal Fonseca http://diegoleal.org [email_address] CreativeCommons 2.5 License - Colombia

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