Welcome to The Year of Excellence.
It's the season of vision boards, new year’s resolutions, audacious goals and big plans. With each new calendar year, it's human nature to wash away the old and welcome the new. We reflect on all the tasks we left undone, the projects that never reached completion and the goals we forgot to accomplish. While that's normal and necessary, I believe the new year brings another chance to begin again without worry over what was. It’s time to focus on what can and will be.
Instead of making a laundry list of goals and resolutions we may forget by Valentine’s Day, consider giving your year a theme—just one simple word—to guide your thoughts and actions.
For us at Flourish Digital Magazine—and for me personally—our theme for 2024 is Excellence. Excellence means “being distinctly good”—in thought and in action. That's our goal for the year: to be excellent in every way imaginable, in every way possible.
From our cover star Necole Kane, to the numerous additional extraordinary people featured such as STEM educator Andrea Wright, you'll notice a common thread: These phenomenal individuals live a lifestyle of excellence. Our core team, and our contributors—like Frances Williams, Ariel Sutton, Shenise Truesdell and Megan Eiland—embody excellence. And we're only getting better with each passing day.
As you flip through the pages of this first issue of 2024, I want you to consider your own excellence. See yourself being printed in this magazine as a person of excellence. The life you deserve and desire is waiting on you to live it—and it's going to be distinctly good.