I’m not particularly fond of best-of, year-end lists, recaps, and anything of the like. Most of the time they don’t say much or provide much real value or insight. And so despite being a somewhat sentimental guy, I’ve made a more concerted effort to look forward, not back. To let go of the past, to drop the baggage that comes along with it. To be free to start over and re-invent.

If I had to define 2012 on a deeply personal level, what immediately comes to mind is clarity, focus, quiet, reduction, challenge, reinvention.

Here’s to continuing that trend in 2013.