Tag: resolutions
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My theme for 2023
This is the word I’m going to use in 2023 to guide my path.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My theme for 2018
My theme for 2018 is stability. Because 2017 was anything but stable.
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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…
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My themes for 2016
Instead of making New Year’s resolutions, at the beginning of each new year I think of three words that represent the growth I want to experience in the coming 12 months. 2015’s words were gratitude, power, and realism. I focused on them as best I could until June, when I lost my job. And then I had the…
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My watchwords for 2015
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but I do like to have a set of words that represent the growth I want to experience in each new year. My 2014 words were anger, serenity, and faith. This is normally where I tell you how I did with all of my words. Unfortunately, the only word that really…
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My watchwords for 2014
For the past two years, using an idea from blogger Amy Parmenter, I chose three words that represented the growth I wanted to achieve in each of those years. Last year my words were joy, because I wanted to cultivate greater joy in my life; freedom, because I wanted never to have to remain in a bad situation because I couldn’t…
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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…
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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…