Hello 2010! 

Did you set any goals or resolutions?  I’m big on goals, but this year I didn’t set any new goals or resolutions, because I made a HUGE list for myself back on my birthday.  This year I was inspired by a women, Ali Edwards, whose blog I follow.  Ali is a designer and artist who does a lot of work in the scrap booking world, a lot of hybrid stuff.  She’s big on words, and how powerful words are.  For 3 years now she’s been encouraging others to pick a word that you’d like to focus on for the new year.  Read here about the tradition, and why she does it.  I liked the idea and leading up to the new year (new decade!), I thought about what word I’d like to focus on during the coming days, and have decided on:

ACHIEVE

to bring about an intended result; accomplish some purpose or effect (dictionary.com)

With this grand list I created back in November of goals I wanted to complete I decided that I wanted a word which would help focus my attention.  I have a habit of setting a goal, but not always following through because I’ll think of something else great I want to do.  This word will help me remember that I have a giant list already created to work on.  I could have picked accomplish, or finish or complete… which all would serve to focus my efforts, but they all sounded so final.  I want this list I created to be the stimulus not the end to setting and completing my goals in life.  In the past I had a goal to be able to run a whole 5 mile race without stopping.  I worked really hard at doing that and finished the race without stopping to walk or take a break.  I was pretty darn proud of myself, and felt great physically…. But with the goal completed, I stopped running for a VERY long time.  I don’t want that feeling of being “done” or “finished” stop me from continuing onward.  To me ACHIEVE is a little more open ended.  I may ACHIEVE my goal of cleaning my car every month, but that doesn’t mean I stop cleaning my car after the year is done.   This goals will help me to ACHIEVE a certain state of life… and then I’ll can continue and ACHIEVE more!

Now I just need a nice little visual reminder of it… maybe a little word art or perhaps one of these !?

If you had to pick a word to focus on this year, what would it be?