Greetings & Happy New Year to All!

There is a very natural transition from the joys of the Holiday Season to the exciting prospects brought on by the advent of a New Year! After a nostalgic review of the past, it’s time to focus our energies, take stock of the present, adjust course for the future and drive forward into the bright new adventures that lie ahead. Depending on your mindset, this annual intellectual excursion can be quite stimulating and cathartic, or for some a source of significant stress and anxiety.

On behalf of World Wide Chocolate, I’d like to offer a template to help move in the direction of the former rather than the latter. Every step in our respective journey’s is unique and therefore necessary to reach our individual destinations, so please be Thankful for where you are and where you’ve been. Appreciate and recognize the people, places and things you’ve encountered that have influenced and directed your path to this point. Strive to express Kindness and Love to all of those you encounter in your pursuits, as those actions will continue to ripple and flow throughout the year to many unforeseen destinations.

At this point you may be wondering where this New Year “chocolate blog” is going, but it’s actually quite simple. We here at World Wide Chocolate, are blessed to work in an industry and with a family of products that has proven throughout history to be the most universally understood commodity in the world to express: Thanks, Appreciation, Kindness and Love (as well as virtually any other sentiment) in quite literally millions of different ways throughout the year. Additionally, it has launched the hopes and dreams of countless entrepreneurs, seeking to passionately advance, harness and ultimately unleash the vast and varied powers of this unique product. We’re very fortunate to participate daily in this collective Goodwill.  Suffice it to say that we too have big plans for World Wide Chocolate in the coming year and we hope you’ll join us on our journey and hopefully to call on us occasionally to be a provider of “currency” for yours!

Here’s to a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to All!

Cheers,

Craig

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