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Have You Picked Your Focus Word for 2020?
Let’s face it, resolutions at the new year usually don’t work. They inevitably die by the first of February. This truth lead me in 2012 to adopt a single word on January 1st to be a guide for the following twelve months. The word was to be my theme for the year, chosen based on something I desired in my life. Something I wanted to be more of or better at or achieve.
But similar to a resolution, a single word and all its intentions faded before the calendar ended. I believe in the value of choosing a focus word. There were benefits the first few months that came about in unexpected ways. But I lost momentum.
Our lives are fluid, always changing. We get off balance. We lose heart and get off-course. Choosing just the one word to sustain the entire year was unrealistic for me. So in 2019, I did it a little different.
I chose four words throughout the year instead. I had no inkling it would impact and enhance my life in such positive ways. This is the story of how that happened.
In January 2019 I didn’t agonize over one word for the entire year. Instead I focused on just one word for a few months until I felt I had reached its goal.
