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It’s been one heck of a year. No doubt.

I am sure you have your own journal full of memories of this year - the good, the bad, and maybe, the ugly. It’s likely material for a best-selling novel with drama tucked in every corner of every page. I have mine too.

But as a realistic optimist, I like to focus on the positive things this year has brought me.

One of them is the fact that if it wasn’t for this year and the pandemic, I would not be writing this note to you.

When the pandemic kicked in at the beginning of this year, I quickly realized that as a self-employed PR consultant, my job security was more than shaky. Not that it is stellar in any corporate job these days. However, from my previous life in corporate, I vividly remember how the contractors were always the first ones to get cut if the numbers didn’t add up. It was definitely time to kick Plan B into gear.

As it happened, I’d been noodling a project for a good couple of years: Creating a...