New Years 2025 Address to the YMS nation 01-02-25 YMS HR3

Happy New Year, easier said than done! Michael shares his New Years address as we head around the sun again.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yesterday in New Orleans proved sometimes even that only lasts
a few hours. Then what now? First, I wish it
were that easy. You could just wish it and it
would be so. But it doesn't work that way for
New Year's any more than it does with Happy Birthday
or have a nice day. But that doesn't stop us.

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At New Year's. We shout it, we wish it, hey,
we even try to eat it. We eat cabbage for
more money, black eyed peas for good luck. We so
desperately want to blame everything that's wrong in our lives
or went wrong on the previous year, that we actually
convince ourselves this next year will be different, This next

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year will be better, even happy. The problem is, while
the calendar will change, we probably will not. Twenty twenty five,
like all New Years, holds no magical powers in and
of itself. The ball that drops to end one year
and light up the next simply serves to remind us

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the time is ticking, ticking on our hopes, our dreams,
and yes, ticking on our lives. As for twenty twenty four, well,
it was a year filled with election uncertainty, inflation, and
high cost of living certainty, along with very little interest
rate relief and skyrocketing home prices. The border crisis continued,

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the spread of war abroad intensified, and the widening of
divisions at home while they became even greater in short.
Twenty twenty four was another chilling reminder that policies have consequences,
and in the end, Old Joe said bye bye to
running American voters said bye bye to Mamalala Kamala, and

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we all said hello again hello to Donald Trump. Two
point zero. Twenty twenty four also brought us a nerdy
gymnast with thick glasses to ensure gold for us all
a women's rugby stock. Alana Mayor and almost all of
us set up big hello to wicked star Cynthia Arrivo.

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We said goodbye to Quincy Jones, Chris Christofferson, James Earl Jones,
the say Hey Kid, Willie Mays, and to our one
hundred year old former president Jimmy Carter, just to name
a few. Personally, Andrew and I had a very challenging
year taking care of both of our mothers, including that long,
slow goodbye as they say, with her mom. But I

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also said hello to about fifty new markets fifty exactly,
including Detroit today and in forty three years of radio,
I have simply never loved what I do, who I
do it with, and whom I do it for more
in my life, and I suspect twenty twenty four For
You was filled with both good and bad. After all,
that's life right now. I'm not a big fan of

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New Year's resolutions, but here's a few reminders that I
think may help all of us make solid, real life
changes than a bunch of dreams and wishes. Reminder one,
we are who we are and where we are right
now based on the choices we have made and or

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our reactions, not responses to circumstances that we're out of
our control. We are who we are and where we
are by the choices we have made, or our reactions
to circumstances that we're out of our control. Circumstances and choices.

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That's what shapes our lives and our values, beliefs, learned experiences, priorities.
They shape our choices, and ultimately, together they shape our destiny.
Confused yet, wonder what comes first the choices or the
character that makes them well. Like all great mysteries in life,

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the answer is, of course both. Bottom line, if you
don't like your life, stop blaming the year. Let's just change.
Trust me that type of personal responsibility and willpower. It's
going to take some character, but I promise together it
will create more than just a happy New Year. It
might make a happy new you. Whether it's eating, exercise, smoking, spending, laziness,

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time management, write it down, do it, do one Otherwise,
I suspect twenty twenty five will go about like twenty
twenty four. Reminder too. New Year's is a lot about
the future, the mysterious unknown, as much as it is
about starting over with a clean slate. And here's what
I know most about the future. It's shaped by today,

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and it's polished or tarnished by the unexpected. The future
is rarely about the expected. Ask any presidential candidate. It's
mostly about the unexpected. Moreover, our response or reaction to
the unexpected. And here's the truth. Prepared people respond, Unprepared

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people react. Our goal at your morning show is to
keep you being prepared, ready to respond, not ignorant, not
unprepared and not reacting. Why what's the difference, Well, success
and failure. Hey, sometimes life and death when attacked The

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prepared always respond with calm, measured and successful actions. The
unprepared almost always react and too quickly regretfully. It usually
ends not just in failure, but with a problem bigger
than the one that attacked them to start with. So
in the end, we are all where we are and

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who we are, shaped by the choices we have made
and our responses or reactions to circumstances that happened. Now
that's how we got here. How do we get out
of this mess? Well? For one better character, thus different wiser,
Better choices and character can come from all different places,

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role modeling, the wisdom gained from having lived and learned,
but for me, mostly through faith and obedience. Now, wherever
you find it, here's the good news. While twenty twenty
five may not have any magical powers in its printed calendar,
it does hold three hundred and sixty five days with

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twenty four hours in each to make better choices. And
who knows, better choices might equal a healthier you, a
more fulfilled you, a better you. Hey, it could even
equal a happier you, and thus finally a happy New year.
That's my wish, that's my prayer for you. I'm Michael
del Jorno and this is your new year, and this

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is your morning show. MHM.