Monday, January 2, 2012

New Year and a New Word

I love love love the holidays.  I love the Advent Season,  the gifts, the merriment, the baking and big meals, the friends, family and time away from the office.  However,  I also love starting anew, reevaluating and challenging myself.  So the minute the New Year is rung in I start my game plan for for the next 12 months.  

One thing that I started a few years ago is to assign a word to focus my thoughts and goals around.  Two years ago it was contentment and last year it was thankfulness and the lessons and growth I experienced from being mindful of both of those words as a navigate each day is something that I will never regret.  This year I had a really hard time finding my word.  I am excited about this year, watching my baby grow,  learning to balance my work and family, strengthening my relationships and growing in my faith and I wanted my word to reflect those good and happy things.  I thought about Balance,  Nourish, and Relish...I read definitions on all of those and while they are things I want to be able to accomplish,  I wanted my word to be more than just something I had to do,  I wanted it to put all of my goals for this year in a spiritual light.  I talked to B and he suggested another great word,  Consistency. Oh I so need to be consistent in so many areas of my life.  In fact if you look at my goals for work, consistency is a common thread.  So I sat down to write the blog post with the word Consistent chosen.  Then I looked up on my board and I saw this print out and I knew my word for this year.


 



 
Abiding: Enduring, Continuing,




This is what I want for 2012.  I want to be an Abiding woman,  I want my heart set on the forever things not the temporary things.   


***Now that I have been officially been pinned I wanted to be sure that I mentioned that I didn't write or create the above picture.   It was emailed to me one of the Mentor Mom's for my Square One Mom's group from church.  I no longer have the original email so I am not sure who sent it originally or if she wrote it so I can't really give anyone credit but I also can't take credit for it myself.   

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