As company holidays approach, I like to send a note to my sales team about what is significant about that day in history. So as New Year’s Day approached earlier this month, it was a moment to charter a course. The origin of this holiday is interesting - it was Julius Caesar who instituted January 1 as the first day of the year. It was partly to honor the month’s namesake: Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces allowed him to look back into the past, and forward into the future.