When I received the wall calendar for our home for 2026…it was blank. Usually, we fill it in as the year progresses with events…but I noticed from the 2025 calendar we didn’t fill it in with hopes and wishes and dreams. We keep looking at it to forecast what we have to do, but not what we want to be this year. Notes in blank places about our wished trip soon back to Iceland (when the sun is out!), or Paris again, or better that ‘never been there yet’ place. On my business calendar I can do the same with new businesses to meet, old clients I’ve lost touch with, and new skills I’d like to acquire. We look at these everyday calendars enough for our ‘to do’ list, but as President of High Point University, Nido Qubein taught me many years ago the shortest ‘to do’ list is called the ‘to be’ list.