If I can make it here...

A little more on this New Year's Resolution and why I moved to (and love) NYC. In a city as a big and diverse as NYC, the only way to stand out is to figure out what makes you different from the other 7,999,999 people who live here, and to exploit it to the fullest! Standing out is the only way to find success here. If you don't speak up here, you won't be heard at all.
New York City --unlike most of the places I'd lived in before (Dallas, Texas; Moraga, Calif.; North Andover, Mass.; and Scottsdale, Ariz.)--not only encourages its residents to embrace their individuality, but it mandates that they do so if they want to succeed in their profession. If you look at anyone who's succeeded in NYC, they've distinguished themselves in some way. Maybe its through their unique talents or their sheer ambition (one word: Trump) or just their abilities to self-promote (and many times, it's a combo of all three). I know I've got at least one of those three. This year, I'm working on the other two.