Choosing a word for 2022 was pretty easy. This past year, I felt like I spent so much time in survival mode dealing with pancreatic cancer that I didn’t fully live life. So, as you might have already guessed, my word for 2022 is “live”. Every day…
Category: Thoughts
I’ll be up front with my word for 2021: In 2020, my word was do. I chose my word before I knew just how craptacular the year would be. Fortunately, it was quite useful to keep me on track: do get out of bed each day; do…
Some people are reflecting on the past year and coming up with a word to describe it. I think Bart Simpson had the perfect word for 2020: Craptacular. We can all agree 2020 was crap. And it was crap in so many spectacular ways there is no…
I decided to pick a word for this year. Several other people seem to be doing it and I figured, what the heck? It seems like a good way to bring focus for the year without having to invest in supplies or try to cram one more thing into what feels like an already overstuffed schedule.
In case you are wanting to sort out how to go about selecting your own word for the year, too, here’s what I did:
- Thought about the things I wanted to accomplish in the near future.
- Looked for a common theme among those things.
- Came up with a list of words to summarize the theme.
- Chose my word.
I didn’t write it down or do anything fancy. I thought it through in my head, because that’s just how I process things. When I finally got to the last step, the word I chose for 2019 is:
I feel like I started the year running on fumes. No energy. No drive to do much. Just kinda blah. As a result, I started stressing about how to get my creative energy going again. Then I decided to stop stressing about it and just roll with…