The financial crisis reminds us that the consequences of our choices, financial and otherwise, truly touch countless others.

My 2010 wish for all of us, including myself, is that we apply the lessons of the crisis, and embrace the notion of Sufficiency. With every spending decision we make we can take money away from that which is destructive, and reallocate it to that which is productive and sustainable. Each of us can decide to treat this economic recession as the "recess from excess" that is long overdue. In so doing, we create a new future of sufficiency for ourselves and all beings everywhere.