The words.
Went through all the comments from the last few days tonight and collected all the words. Reading your words + your reasons were uplifting + inspiring. Thank you for sharing. If I missed your word leave a note in the comments section and I will add it to this list.
And there is always time to choose a word if you have not done so yet.
Updated Friday 1/11 @ 1:55pm
Abide
Absorb
Abundance
Accept
Accomplish
Achieve
Act
Action
Active
Adapt
Adventure
Adopt
Ahead
Am
Ambition
Appreciate
Artist
Aspire
Attitude
Authentic
Aware
Balance
Be
Beautify
Become
Begin
Beginnings
Behold
Believe
Bethink
Blaze
Blessed
Bliss
Blog
Bloom
Brave
Bravery
Breathe
Brighten
Build
Calm
Can
Capable
Capture
Celebrate
Challenge
Change
Cherish
Choices
Choose
Clarity
Clean
Colour
Comfortable
Commit
Compassion
Complete
Completion
Confiance (confidence)
Connect
Conquer
Consciously
Consistency
Content
Contentment
Continue
Control
Courage
Crafty
Create
Cultivate
Dance
Dare
Dare to bare
Decide
Debt-Free
Deeper
Deliberate
Deliberateness
Delight
Delight in the Lord...
Deliverance
Detachment
Detail
Determination
Determined
Develop
Diligent
Direction
Discipline
Discover
Do
Dreams
Dwell
Embrace
Encourage
Endure
Engage
Energy
Enjoy
Enough
Enrich
Enthusiasm
Escape
Evolve
Execution
Explore
Exuberant
Fabulous
Faith
Faithful
Favorite
Find
Finesse
Finish
Flexible
Flourish
Flow
Fly
Focus
Focus
Follow
Follow-Through
Forgiveness
Forward
Foundations
Free
Freedom
Fresh
Fulfill
Geek
Genuine
Give
Go
Good
Grace
Grateful
Gratitude
Green
Grow
Growth
Gumption
Happy
Harmonize
Harmony
Haven
Heal
Healthy
Heart
Home
Honesty
Honor
Hope
Humility
Imagination
Immersion
Implement
In Time
Initiative
Inspired
Integrate
Integrity
Intent
Intention
Intentional
Intimacy
Invest
Journey
Joy
Joyful
Just Do It
Kind
Kindness
KISS : keep it simple stupid
Know
Laugh
Learn
Less
Let Go
Light
Listen
Live
Live, Laugh, Love
Look
Love
Maintain
Make
Manage
Me
Memory
Mend
Mindfulness
Miracle
Moderation
Modernize
Moment
Moments
Momentum
More
Mother
Motivate
Move
No
No rules
Nourish
Now
Nurture
Objective
Observe
Offer
Off-Road
One
One-Less
Open
Opportunity
Optimism
Order
Organic
Organization
Others
Pace
Passion
Patience
Pause
Peace
Perseverance
Persistence
Perspective
Play
Positive
Possibilities
Potential
Practice
Prayer
Prayerful
Present
Prioritize
Produce
Productive
Progress
Protect
Pure
Purge
Purpose
Pursue
Quality
Quiet
Question
Random
Reach
Real
Rebuild
Recovery
Redesign
Rediscover
Reduce
Reflect
Reinvention
Rejuvenation
Relationship
Relax
Release
Remember
Renaissance
Renewal
Resilience
Resilient
Resolution
Resolve
Respect
Resplendent
Rest
Restore
Revive
Richness
Sabbatical
Satisfied
Savor
Schedule
See
Seek
Selah (holy pause)
Selective
Self
Self-Sufficient
Serendipity
Serenity
Service
Share to care
Significance
Simplicity
Simplify
Slow
Slow Down
Smile
Soul
Space
Spark
Sparkle
Spirit
Spontaneous
Sprout
Squash
Stability
Stand
Steadfast
Stillness
Story
Strength
Strive
Strong
Stronger
Succeed
Success
Sustain
Tangible
Teach
The Year of the Do
Thrive
Time
Today
Together
Tolerance
Transformation
Tranquility
Triskaidekaphobia
Triumph
True
Trust
Truth
Try
Understanding
Up
Vibrance
Vibrant
Visualize
Vitality
Wait
Warm
Wellness
Will
Wisdom
Wise
Witness
Yes
Zeal
My word is Understanding......I want to focus on doing that much better this year. I loved reading the list, quite alot to think about there!
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My 2008 word? Initiative! Change doesn't happen unless you take charge and make it so.
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Great inspiration Ali. I will print these all off to use to practice my calligrpahy this year. Am always looking for "words"
You inspired me and I have chosen
TANGIBLE.
Thanks for all you do!
Laurie in Edmonton
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I love that (thanks for listing them)...I think my word will be connect. Haven't had a ton of time to think, pray over it but it has very high potential.
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I just adore seeing this list all in one spot alphabetized!! What a great catalyst for art journals, take one word a day or week and make a page around it. LOVE IT! Thanks Ali
You continue to inspire me!
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"Yes"
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Nothing like being a bit late eh??? Here is my word... ENDURE and the story behind why I chose it is here : http://www.pjsareclothes.blogspot.com/
Thanks Ali!
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Ali,
This is my first time commenting on your blog, though I've been reading it for several months now. Simon reminds me a lot of my older son Zachary, and I love to hear how he's doing. My word (after MUCH THOUGHT and almost stealing the word GO from someone) is FOLLOW. Kind of odd, I know. I want to be intentional this year about making decisions that follow God's desires for my life. Whether it's saying no to the umpteenth piece of chocolate for the day or getting up of the couch to play with the kids or developing deeper relationships or even saying no more often, I hope to carve out those few moments to consider how things fit into His plans. So, for me it's FOLLOW. Thanks for inspiring me to think about this.
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My word is "triumph" - this will be a year of great things after a year of change and time spent getting back on my feet, emotionally and financially :-) Thanks for being the inspiration you are, Ali!
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My word is visualize (and attack-make those dreams happen)! I can't believe it isn't a duplicate. That is a long list.
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Okay, Ali, I picked my word today and found out it isn't on your list yet. My word is SUCCEED. I have so many irons in the fire and so many things I want to improve. I feel stressed. I intend to look at my goals and use them as a measurement of what I should be doing -- will this project or activity help me succeed in this goal? If not, it's off my list.
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I didn't make a comment yet, but my word is "consistency." Every time I've succeeded in something I aimed for it was because of consistency. And I found this quote on a poster when I googled it: Knowing harmony is consistency. Knowing consistency is enlightenment. –Tao Te Ching
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Thankyou Ali for compiling this amazing list- it must have taken you ages to go through all those messages & list all the words.
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Poor little "X" and "Z". They're the only letters not represented on the amazing list. Kindof makes me want to choose "zoom" or "zany" or maybe "x-ray" or "xerox" as my word, but I'm happy with "flow" and will stick with that!
Rinda
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what a wonderful list! thank you for taking the time to compile it- so inspiring!
my word for 2008 is 'good'- so many meanings and uses, but for me this year, it's about being a better me and seeing/finding/ being mindful of the good that's all around us.
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Hi Ali.
Thanks for the inspiration as always.
I actually have two words for this year:
NO RULES! I tend to get frozen because I put so many rules on things and scrapbooking in particular, so this year, I want to break free! Thank you. Looking forward to reading your last book which I just ordered.
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What a lovely list of words! Each one amazing and intensely personal to someone. Mine is "serenity," pure and simple and life-giving, though I wouldn't mind sharing all the others...
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Well, this year I'm going to be a bit different and have a One Little WordQuad: 4 little words in a phrase that is a resolution:
Dare to Bare...
Share to Care...
I'm a sucker for the aliterative, so I'm rhyming this year, and all of these pretty much say the same thing, anyway. Noticed that Dare is the only one on your list, BTW.
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Every family member chose a word for this year:
Prayerful, Abide, Accomplish, Capable, Sprout
Thanks, Ali!
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Mine is "SPIRIT" =)
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My word for this year is ME. Not as in a selfish me, but as in finding myself and doing for me again. This includes the spiritual me, the phsycial me, the mental me, and so on!
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Mine is persistence.
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Brave, Believe, and Trust
This year will probably be the hardest year of my life. I know that I will have to be BRAVE with the decisions that I make and TRUST and BELIEVE in them as well. I also need to BELIEVE and TRUST that everything will work out the way it is suppose to.
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This is the first I've heard about this but I like the idea. I was looking through the list of words and realized you didn't have any starting with the letter Z so I have decided on "Zeal" as my word for this year. The Dictionary says this about the word: zeal (zēl) Pronunciation Key
n. Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance. - I want to be more diligant with my devotions, my home life, my friendships and my stamping. What a great idea this is as it's a challenge to really put for the effort to make your WORD a part of your daily life. Thanks!
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Wow, what an amazing list!
My word is NEW.
New Year, New Me, New Attitude. You get the idea. So much it can mean.
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