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.
