What a better day to ponder the future than the last day of any year.

In our men's group this month, one of the inquiries was the question about knowing one's life purpose. As if there might be one, or that there is one lurking in the plan of an all knowing being or simmering in the depths of some random cosmic destiny.

Whatever our story, we get to decide on every next moment's purpose. We get to decide whether we will use caution as an excuse for maintaining the status quo or that we inculcate Into our life path a sense of the impossible to propel ourselves into improbable trajectories otherwise. We get to decide on the future we desire to realize.

One of the 8 pathways to happiness I'm talking about in book 10, "The Joy of Thriving," is wonder. Wonder is an awesome, literally and figuratively, window into the difference we can make in the future frame of 2011.

So, what would you love to discover next year?