It’s time again to choose my word for the year. It’s an attempt to choose a word that influences my state of mind throughout the year and creates a structure and framework for my life.
Here are my past choices:
2009-SERENE
2010-CREATE
2011-BALANCE
2012-VARIETY
2013-MEMORY
2014-MEMORY
2015-EMBRACE
I had high hopes for 2015 and then my life jumped the tracks and the entire last half of the year turned out completely different than I had anticipated. It turned out that EMBRACE was the perfect word as I ended up embracing “whatever new adventure comes along and ride the wave”, as I wrote at this time last year. I also wanted to “do lots of intentional things to make me happy” and that didn’t happen as much as I had hoped. I started Ali Edwards OLW workshop and did great but it broke down the last half of the year and I stopped even looking at the prompts. That was sad for me because I had made such a great start.
I signed up for the workshop for 2016 and will make a valiant effort to work through it. I will also finish up my 2015 album as I did collect photos throughout the year to put in it. I have thought long and hard about my word for 2016 and have decided that I am going to embrace my tendency to get involved in a project and stick with it. So rather than try to hit many projects so I feel like I’m making progress everywhere, I’m going to focus on a few and really dig deep to get them to completion. So my 2016 word is FOCUS and here’s the meme I created.
Love your word and your reasoning behind it. I also some fell off the wagon towards the latter part of the year 2 years ago, & didn’t even participate last year…so this year I am choosing Simplify again as I didn’t get to delve as much as I would have liked last year. Looking forward to seeing your progress and good luck this year !!