 2020 has a nice even sound to it doesn't it just like 2020 vision something that sounds perfect and complete 2020 well every new year is the same in some way because it is a new year it is a completely unwritten year and it's no accident that this is the time for resolutions for what this year will be about now of course it is just a number so nothing will magically change between December 31st 2019 and January 1st 2020 it's just another new day and we just happen on the calendar to give it a new number so there's a limit to what it means of course it doesn't completely remake everything and the things that we're doing on December 31st there's nothing that will automatically change them on January 1st but I believe that in some way it is more than just a number it can be more than just a number because of what the number means the number 2019 is now full of meanings it's full of everything that we filled 2019 with whenever you just hear that word 2019 or see that written and you can call to mind what kind of year you've had everything that's happened everything you did what this year was like you just see that number 2019 and it calls those things to mind when you see the number 2020 well now it's completely fresh year it could be anything so that's the power of the new year the idea of this blank page where you can really start fresh and I think whatever can help to give that feeling is good I mean we could have that every day in some way ideally every day should be like a January 1st because every day is that completely fresh start for the rest of your life like they say today is the first day of the rest of your life and yet another one of those cliches but an absolutely valid one if we could really start each day as being a beginning that would be very powerful and that is what it is because really every day every day that starts it may have a number like January 2nd or some number that suggests that it's not first but every day that starts is completely unwritten and completely open to be anything and it's only at the end of that day that we can judge maybe what it was about and maybe not even until later can we really understand the significance of that day but when you have January 1st of a new year now is the day where we automatically get that written into the date itself that yes this is a start this is a beginning of something new so January 1st 2020 when you look at that number you see that number 2020 and say wow it's now 2020 as much as it's just a number that is now a fresh number that can now be associated with new things we can leave aside everything that's associated with 2019 and bring on a whole new set of connections with that number with that new year and what it means to you and with 2020 not only is it extra fun because we have the doubling 2020 and that's not going to happen again until 2121 so let's enjoy it while it's here and we also get unofficially the beginning of a new decade now I know of course technically the 20s as a decade do not officially start until 2021 because 2020 is part of the end of the second decade the end of the teens but in terms of how the numbers we look at in terms of that third digit of the year two zero we've been looking at two zero one for the last ten years now we're looking at two zero two we're looking at the 20s wow can you believe it we're now in the 20s and this is now a whole new decade so this is as much as again I can keep saying you can keep reminding ourselves it is just a number and it doesn't automatically make anything happen but it is an opportunity to start this new year this new decade with a fresh new approach and ask yourself what do I want this decade to be about and starting with the year what do I want this year to be about which will then set things going for the 2020s this decade that we're now stepping into because it's so young right now it's at its very beginning we have that little bit of extra power to be able to choose the direction that we want so where do you want to go with this year