an end + a beginning + my word

Ali, I love reading your blog and I have bought your book Life Artist and I have your poster hanging in my scrap room. I would have to say that the word I am going to use this year is CAPTURE. I want to capture everything this year and just enjoy and I am not talking about just with my camera but with everything. Thank you Ali for your blog

patience...

After much thought and some flipping through a thesaurus, I have decided on the word "find." I started off with learn and discover but have finally settled on find. There are many things I will be looking for this year. I am hoping to find knowledge by reading more. I am hoping to find new skills by taking a photography class. I am hoping to find joy as I help my daughter plan her wedding and I am hoping to find peace with my life as it is and as it grows.

I finally decided on my word: SAVOR. I really want to focus on savoring every moment--enjoying all the parts that I normally let fall away into non-memory. Watching and Looking at life with new eyes that notice the tiny bits of 'glue' that hold us all together. Thanks for your inspiration Ali.

I finally decided on my word: SAVOR. I really want to focus on savoring every moment--enjoying all the parts that I normally let fall away into non-memory. Watching and Looking at life with new eyes that notice the tiny bits of 'glue' that hold us all together. Thanks for your inspiration Ali.

HALF-FULL
My word is Half-full, as in "view the glass as half-full instead of half-empty". View things as "positive" (my word last year) instead of negative.
I got "Life Artist" this afternoon. I am already on page 48 and making notes in my journal. I love this book and I love you for writing it. You are such an inspiration to me. Have a wonderful 2008!

My word is Healthy
http://ingeniousinkling.typepad.com/ingenious_inkling/2008/01/my-word---healt.html

have you decided how you will showcase your 365 picts? Will you do an album work in progress?

oh and PS. my word is Begin, my mom's is Replenish

my word for 2008...Chillax!
It works for life and scrappin', just chillax and go with the flow.

My word is STRENGTH. I am going to concentrate on gaining that in my life where it is lacking. I wrote a blog post about it to start myself off if anybody is interested
http://www.myscrapbooklife.com/i-was-afraid/
Corinna
www.myscrapbooklife.com

ok....just wanted to say that I LOVE LOTTA JANSDOTTER!!! just discovered her in my current issue of Mary Engelbreit's magazine. how funny! she's simply an inspiration.
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Ali.. my word for 2007 was CREATE, I did pretty well... I created life and our little man Joshua was born in September...
I am a big believer of "naming" our dreams, of manifesting the life we dream of living...
2008 my word is JOY - joy for all of my blessings, my life.
Thanks
Bek

Hi I want to join in - my word this year is Serve. Having just become a Christian this is going to be a hard lesson for me this year!

I chose my word - Verve. I blogged about it even and made reference to your blog. Thanks for the inspiration!

Good morning Ali!
I've never blogged before, so I'm a newbie. It fits right in with my word: New.
I always try to remember today is a NEW day...whatever happened yesterday (kids were bad, etc.) is over and today is full of new possibilites.
I love your books and have been duly inspired to try new things. Never done a "Challenge" but reading Life Artist got me to do "A week in my life", which I just finished photographing and journaling about. Stepped out of my comfort zone and did something new.
Ahead on my horizon is another new possiblity: being a stay-at-home mom after almost 15 years (and 4 kids). I look forward to new things I'll discover about myself and my family! NEW! (I already printed it out and it's above my computer!) I'm sure I'll find all kinds of other inspiratons surrounding my word. The possibilities are endless!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Michelle

I just found your blog & all of a sudden things started to click inside me. My word: MOVEMENT.
Thank you. & thank you.

I found your blog and the idea of a word of the year through the Creative Mom Podcast and participated last year. For 2007 my word was PLAYGROUND (trying new things, letting go, just play) and my new word for 2008 is ENERGY BUDGET (thinking about the earth, getting greener, but also my own energy budget).
Thank you so much for this inspiration!

Hi Ali. I am so excited to read about this one word challenge! Thee are so many i could choose but i think i will go with ACCEPTANCE...
Acceptance of myself, my marriage, my daughter's adolesence, my job, my crafting...
Thanks for the challenge. I am putting this work on my wall for a daily reminder.

My word is BELIEVE.... believe in myself, believe that life will work out, believe that this will be a good year, believe that I can make new, good friends. Believe is a good word for me this year.