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Ever so often I want to write about something other than business. Tonight I want to talk about hope and my personal hopes for the coming new year of 2010. Hope is a very powerful human emotion. I believe that hope creates goals and goals are how we get things done. In about 24 days we all roll into a new decade.

The following is my list of 50 hopes for this coming year. They are in no particular order.

1. I hope less people get divorced.
2. I hope less children are born with deadly or lifelong diseases.
3. I hope more divorced people get to spend extra time with their kids.
4. I hope the world finds a way to defeat cancer.
5. I hope more married parents get to spend extra time with their young ones.
6. I hope more legitimate home businesses start to flourish.
7. I hope the year goes by slow.
8. I hope I see no more death in my family.
9. I hope we have less “real life” television shows.
10. I hope Gilligan’s Island returns to TV again.
11. I hope my daughter and I can get to know each other better.
12. I hope my business earns enough money so my wife can stay home with us.
13. I hope the world endures less natural disasters.
14. I hope less people go hungry.
15. I hope my wife endures less pain from the loss of her little brother.
16. I hope Plankton finally gets the Krabby Patty formula.
17. I hope more people buy homes.
18. I hope everybody who loss somebody this year begins to heal.
19. I hope taxes go down.
20. I hope there are less violent crimes.
21. I hope we get some life changing new music.
22. I hope I finish my downstairs bathroom.
23. I hope my neighbor’s dog stops doing its business on my yard.
24. I hope people find my marketing class extremely useful.
25. I hope to see my parents and brothers more often.
26. I hope “Drive In” Movie theaters make a comeback.
27. I hope more people read this blog.
28. I hope it is a prosperous year for most.
29. I hope we see less war.
30. I hope technology improves drastically.
31. I hope less people drink and drive.
32. I hope my wife’s van makes it through another year.
33. I hope I lose a few pounds.
34. I hope most of you enjoy this list.
35. I hope they send me the money for all these email lotteries I have been winning.
36. I hope the amount of homeless in the world drops considerably.
37. I hope somebody markets the hover craft and it becomes secondary transportation.
38. I hope McDonald’s starts getting my order right.
39. I hope the FDA gets serious about regulating the safety and effectiveness of prescription medicine.
40. I hope more musicians get their shot.
41. I hope my wife returns safely from her trip to Egypt in January.
42. I hope the Rams play better football.
43. I hope I can say hello to more perfect strangers.
44. I hope it doesn’t snow a ton in January and February.
45. I hope I become wiser.
46. I hope I don’t have to fly on a plane until June.
47. I hope I can cut back on drinking soda.
48. I hope Aerosmith works out their differences and remains a band.
49. I hope we all find some more time.
50. I hope this list gets tweeted, shared and re-tweeted.

That’s pretty much all I have right now. What are your hopes for the new year?