Tag: goals

  • My theme for 2023

    This is the word I’m going to use in 2023 to guide my path.

  • My theme for 2022

    At the first of each year I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. Here’s my theme for 2022.

  • My theme for 2021

    Every New Year’s Day I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. Here’s my word for 2021.

  • My theme for 2020

    Every New Year’s Day I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. Here’s my word for 2020.

  • My theme for 2019

    Every New Year’s Day I choose a theme that guides my choices through the year. After one of the roughest years of my life, my 2019 theme is all about starting new.

  • My theme for 2018

    My theme for 2018 is stability. Because 2017 was anything but stable.

  • My theme for 2017

    When I wrote last year’s list of themes for my new year, I felt sure it would be the last one, that my annual setting of direction had run its course. I think a lot about who I am versus who I want to be. Some might call it navel gazing, but self-analysis is core…

  • My watchwords for 2013

    Last year, using an idea from blogger Amy Parmenter, I chose three words that represented the growth I wanted to achieve in 2012. They were enjoy, reminding me to focus on the 80% of my life that was good; calm, because I’m naturally anxious and wanted to cultivate more inner peace; and health, because in…

  • My watchwords for 2012

    I’m not big on new year’s resolutions. Rather, I try to take constant stock of my life and if something needs changed I work on it right then. But as 2011 passed into 2012 I reflected on how much better my life has gotten in the past two or three years. Things have been settled…

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