One Little Word 2013

My 2013 word is FOCUS. In September I opened my own mixed media shop AND I own my own retreat business. This is the year that I plan to FOCUS on transitioning 100% to working my new creative career and leaving my other traditional employment. FOCUS reminds me to make disciplined business decisions that help me accomplish this hefty goal. I'm so excited about my journey!

I think my word is direction or intention. I'm still mulling it over, but I'm looking for my word to help me stay on the path I'm walking while still allowing me to grow as a person.

Ali,
Open is my word for 2013 as well. I like that it is both a verb and adjective. I want to be open to opportunities and people and life, in general and I know that I can open doors and possibilities with my own actions.

I can't wait to see what the year brings and how my word manifests.

My word is Connect. I want to take more time to connect with people who are important to me, and too often I just don't get around to it. The off-hand comments to do this or that, go out for lunch, just get together to catch up, apparently require a little more effort than I've given them this last year. And it also relates to my plan to connect via blog postings (something I have let go for well over a year). It will be interesting to see where this takes me.

My word for 2013 is Create. I've considered other words, but this is the one that feels right.

My word for 2013 is Jump! Like the song by Van Halen. I started pondering the word in November and this just kept coming to me (along with the song lyrics) so it has stuck. I'm a little scared by my word, but I think that's good. I love that this has turned into a thing I discuss with family&friends and everyone is into picking a word (even if they don't scrap)

my One Little Word for 2013 is... SONG.

We're embracing music as a family this year... I'm taking up guitar lessons at age 40! My kids are going to take piano lessons... music is such a gift and makes everyone happy. It's been missing in our lives for quite some time. This year that will change...

Simplify ....my word is simplify. I hope to streamline my days and plan time to stay organized. Staying organized will help simplify my days. And this will have to start with a purge of unused and unwanted items...

My word for 2013 is "Enough". I have just enough in my life right now to satisfy me. And it's not about placing a monetary value to things, it's about placing an emotional value on my life right now. Do I wish for more? Possibly. But over the past year I have learned that having enough right now is okay.

Brave is my word. There are changes in my life that I need to make. And I need to be Brave to make them.

My word for 2012 should have been embrace. I didn't go with it, but I should have. It's spoken to me this entire year, so my word for 2013 is EMBRACE. I'm signed up for the One Little Word class, and can't wait for it to begin.

I have been toying with three words: Balance, Go and Free. Over the last few weeks the word FREE has grown larger and more demanding. My word for 2013 will be FREE and I can't wait it see where it takes me. I know I want to be free of my unfulfilling job, free of the little credit card balance I carry, Free of self-doubt and fear. My body yearns for more freedom too. My word for 2012 - emerge, helped me shed more than 80 lbs. I have more weight to release figuratively and literally.

This is my third go 'round with OLW and I am so grateful for this practice!

Thanks Ali for both your guidance and your company on this joyful journey.

I chose live, because I want no longer to be controlled by fear, shame for being me

My word for 2013 is ART.

I'm playing with various words. I like the word UP which Ali used last year and also MOMENT. To live in the moments not the overall expectation of the idea or what you want the future plan to be. Up is good bc I want to bring more positive thoughts my way and think of the brighter sides of things and all the directions upward can represent. Hmmm maybe BRIGHT could be my word. See. It never ends. I chose embrace a few years ago.

Any ideas of how to pick just one. .

I've chosen "Move" as my word. It's intended as a practical probe: I've been getting too sedentary and it's causing me to miss out of some things. This is the year to change that. It can, of course, have many other meanings and those will be fun to explore. Looking forward to the class.

Bring on 2013 and Adventure!

We had alot of death this year and it's a reminder that each moment is important. Get off the couch and do it! Life is an adventure, something new, risk, excitement, living out loud!

If pysched!
Julie

My little word for 2013 is Perspective, and I wrote about it (in french) there:
http://leroseetlenoir.blogspot.fr/2012/12/un-mot-pour-2013.html
As a very anxious person, I would like to stop looking at the world through dark glasses, be able to step out of myself and look at what I'm going through from a distance, in order to have a more relaxed attitude toward things.

I love picking one little word each year...thanks for the inspiration! I am still a tiny bit up in the air, but I'm pretty sure my word for 2013 is OWNERSHIP. I wanted to do "no excuses" or something along those lines, but I like that "ownership" is positive. Love your word this year and love your necklace!!

In 2013, my word will be virtue.

In the past few months, as I look ahead to a 2013 that will have some interesting life changes, I've felt a calling in my heart that says it's time to take the things I find frustrating about myself or in my life, and to actually do something...and a reading that I've felt drawn to as I work on that is Proverbs 31 (which talks of a virtuous woman). Hence, my word. =)