One Little Word : 2010 Word List
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I spent a couple hours yesterday going back through all the comments listing your one little words and the reasons/thoughts behind them. It's always so cool to see all these words listed together. I am working on a layout for my word this year and hope to share it next week.
Below, the words. If I accidentally missed yours please add a comment below and I will add it to the list (I am updating throughout the day). These words are beautiful and powerful and subtle and really can make a difference in your life. Cheers to 2010.
Abide
Abundance
Acceptance
Accomplish
Achieve
Act
Action
Active
Adore
Adventure
Alive
Angels
Appreciate
Attend
Authentic
Authenticity
Awaken
Aware
Awareness
Balance
Be
Beauty
Become
Begin
Believe
Beloved
Best
Better
Blessed
Blessings
Bliss
Blossom
Brave
Breathe
Brighten
Bring (It)
Build
Calm
Can
Capture
Celebrate
Challenge
Change
Charity
Cherish
Childhood
Childlike
Choice
Choose
Clarity
Clean
Comfortable
Commit
Commitment
Compassion
Complete
Completion
Composure
Confidence
Connect
Connection
Consistency
Consistent
Contentment
Control
Courage
Create
Dance
Decrease
Dedication
Deliberate
Delight
Details
Determination
Determined
Diligence
Discipline
Discover
Discovery
Do
Document
Domesticity
Downsize
Dream
Ease
Educate
Effort
Embark
Embrace
Encourage
Endeavor
Energy
Engage
Enjoy
Enlightenment
Enough
Equipped
Essential
Everyday
Excellence
Expand
Experience
Explore
Faith
Family
Fearless
Fearlessness
Find
Finished
Fire
Fit
Flexible
Flourish
Flow
Flower
Fly
Focus
Follow
Follow-Through
Forgive
Forgiveness
Forward
Free
Freedom
Fresh
Friendship
Fulfill
Fun
Future
Gajillion
Gather
Give
Glee
Go
Grace
Graceful Productivity
Gracious
Grateful
Gratitude
Grow
Growth
Habit
Handmade
Happiness
Harmony
Healing
Health
Healthy
Heart
Him
Home
Hope
Hopeful
Horizon
Humble
Humility
Illuminate
Imagine
Important
Improve
In
Indeed
Inspiration
Integrity
Intention
Intentional
Intentionality
Invest
Invigorate
Invite
Involved
Jesus
Journal
Journey
Joy
Joyful
Just Do It
Kindness
Laughter
Lead
Leap
Learn
Less
Letting Go
Lighter
Listen
Live
Look
Lose & Replace
Love
Loved
Lucky
Magic
Make
Manage
Marisa
Mastery
Maturity
Me
Mend
M.I.L.K.
Mindful
Mission
Model
Moment
Mommy
More
Move
Move Forward
Near
Neat
Nest
New
No Excuses
Now
Nurture
Observe
Open
Optimism
Order
Organization
Organize
Otheres
Overcome
Passion
Passion(ate)
Patience
Pause
Peace
Persevere
Persist
Persistent
Photography
Place
Play
Ponder
Positive
Positivity
Possibilities
Possibility
Potential
Practice
Pray
Precious
Prepare
Present
Preserve
Prioritize
Proactive
Productivity
Progress
Promise
Pull
Purge
Purpose
Quality
Quiet
Re-direct
Reach
Real
Really
Reclamation
Reconciliation
Reconnect
Record
Recreate
Rediscover
Reduce
Refine
Regain Control
Relationships
Relax
Relaxation
Release
Relish
Remember
Renew
Resilience
Resolve
Resource
Rest
Restoration
Restore
Rethink
Rhythm
Risk
Routines
Sail
Satisfaction
Save
Savor
Seek
Self
Self-Esteem
Serenity
Serve
Service
Share
Shed
Shelter
Shine
Shoot
Silence
Simplify
Slow
Smile
Sooner
Space
Spirit
Stability
Start
Steadfast
Steer
Story
Streamlined
Strength
Stretch
Strive
Stronger
Student
Study
Success
Sunshine
Surrender
Survive
Sustain
Tell
Thankful
Think
Thoughtful
Thrive
Time
Today
Today Matters
Together
Tone
Tranquility
Transform
Transformation
Transition
Treasure
Trust
Truth
Unclutter
Unfold
Unity
Vision
Vitality
Wellness
Whisper
Wholehearted
Wholeness
Will
Wisdom
Wonder
Words
Worth
Write
One of the big things I noticed as I read back through all the words
yesterday is that most people want to make some sort of change in their
lives such as a subtraction or an addition. You might be interested in checking out Leo Batuba's (Zen Habits) new blog about habits
called 6 Changes.

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Hi Ali
My word is similar to Michelle J's. My word for this year is PROACTIVE. All those things that I keep saying to myself 'I must do that...' and never get around to doing it - well 2010 I'm going to get them done. I was so inspired by my word last year (SIMPLIFY) and it lead to a number of life changes. Many thanks for doing this Ali, you are truly an inspiration.
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So cool to see all the words--thanks for sharing it with us!
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Thanks for compiling this and sharing it with us! Here is a link to my post about my list
http://scrappinoutloud.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-is-so-gorgeous-and-my-final.html
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OOooooh -- how do you make the clouds into brushes? I'm just getting into the brush part of digital scrapbooking and would love to try this out (LOVE wordle!). My e-mail is kristiwl@yahoo.com. Thank you and happy new year!
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That is a lovely way to focus on your home... I would have used Home, but yours is much more 'complete'. Nice.
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My word for this year is BLISS, because I want to remember to find my bliss in everything that I can this year :)
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I didn't share it earlier but my OLW for 2010 is "model" - as in model my life after Christ's for my son and others around me.
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I didn't share it earlier but my OLW for 2010 is "model" - as in model my life after Christ's for my son and others around me.
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That sounds so cool Diane :).
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Not at all Dana - thank you. I do receive a very minimal amount if products are purchased from a link I have listed here. I have a disclosure page here that lists the affiliate programs I currently participate in: /ae-discolsures.html
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Updated to here.
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Hi Ali,
My word is Space
I need to find it externally and internally .
Bye, Lisa
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I know I'm late showing up to the game this year, but it took awhile to nail down the word that would have true meaning for me this year. I can't tell you how much this annual tradition inspires me...I actually did a blog post about it today:
http://sweetpeaink.typepad.com/borntofly/2010/01/one-little-word-for-2010.html
My word for 2010: STUDENT.
xoxo
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Just found this and what a great idea. Thanks Ali. My word is Chilhood. Now that I am in the autumn of my life I have so many stories that I would like to document for my grandchildren. Have lots of them written down waiting to be told!!!!!!!!!
Mary
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My word is *words*...I thought I posted it earlier... but just in case I didn't I'm choosing to:
*read and write more words
*get deeper into God's word
*guard myself against the words I let my ears hear and my mouth say
Yay!
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tell
tell those I love that I love them
tell truth
tell our story
tell
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my word is "adventure".
i find it fascinating seeing how the words change for me.
2008 was "fearless" also written as "fear less".
2009 was "offer grace".
i really feel like i can see growth just by the words i pick.
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You simply. Continue. To amaze me. With your creativity, your giving nature and your ability to inspire. I have chosen my one word this year to be "integrity". You embody that word to me. I hope to become a greater self as I aspire to allow the word to cleanse my being and uplift my soul.
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Oh your word list is missing GO...(but I see it in the WORDLE.)
thanks!
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This is really adorable!!! My word is IN.....it's a small one but it packs a punch!
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