Here we go again. A new year, new resolutions and new promises. Time to get serious about where we are going and evaluate where we have been. Time for introspection and reflection.

This year I am making a new resolution and commitment. One that I am determined to succeed at. One that will make a difference on even the smallest scale. Obviously I have failed miserably each year with my workout program. Gym memberships have gone to waste and eating habits sabotaged by great Italian cooking.

I am writing this editorial shortly after reading a book by Bruce Wilkinson called The Prayer of Jabez. This is a small book, about 6 inches wide and 8 inches long, with only 93 pages. It was a gift from a friend who told me she had purchased it at the dollar store. This $1 investment from a friend is about to make a difference in the life of some kid who has no wheels to call his own. Allow me to introduce you to a new non-profit organization called “EveryKidDeservesaBike.org.”

I am at a point where I want to make a difference in the life I live and in the lives of others. I want to make sure that when the day comes and I am pushing up daisies, that I have left the world, my son and those I love, with something they can be proud of. After I read Wilkinson's book, I began thinking about kids who don’t have much, and parents who struggle to give their children a bountiful Christmas, and I thought about how wonderful it would be to give some kid a new bike. Make that plural: to give some kids new bikes.

My New Year's resolution is to make a real difference in the lives of many children at Christmas time in 2007. Tony Robbins says it best in his Seven Day Get the Edge program: “Wealth is measured by what you give back.” Tony expresses how inner wealth grows by the things we give and the lives we touch along the way, how gratitude is the key to success and faith is the balance to all achievement.

I hope this editorial inspires the people reading it to make a difference this year in someone else’s life. I hope by reading this editorial you are inspired to do something extraordinary for someone else. And I truly hope you will log onto my new web site www.EveryKidDeservesaBike.org and ride with me towards what will be the first New Year's resolution I have actually stuck to.

Peace to all and Happy New Year.

Joe Altieri
Publisher
jaltieri@onlinecommunitycorp.com