Have you ever picked out a hike in the mountains, but once you arrive at the base and look up, you think to yourself, “oh man, I have to climb that?” Your enthusiasm might bleed away a little bit.

Famed poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

“New year, new me!”

Prolific and unique musician MF Doom once said, “I'm always trying to show versatility. I'm juggling, and I'm flipping fire, and I'm chewing gum and rhyming at the same time... on a unicycle, while playing the drums.”

If you’ve ever tried to learn another language, you know that it’s incredibly difficult to just jump in—self-instruction can be difficult, disorganized, and overwhelming. It’s helpful, when setting off on this ambitious endeavor, to engage with a helpful tool that features a more structured approach with instruction on specific concepts. Let’s face it—if there’s something out there that can simplify complex ideas, it just makes sense to take advantage of it.

Consider sugar and salt—both are “spices” of a kind, and since they’re both often in the form of fine white grain, they look similar as well. So similar in fact, you might mistakenly switch one in for the other, setting yourself up for quite the surprise at first bite.

American journalist Sydney J. Harris once said that “the two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”

If you know the game of football, you know that the quarterback runs the show. He calls the plays, reads the defense, and leads the team—that position is often considered the primary factor in a team’s success. You won’t win the game if the QB doesn’t perform.