One Little Word 2013 | The Words

[...] new year.  A new word.  I’m participating in Ali Edwards One Little Word class.  I participated (using that term VERY loosely) in 2012 and 2011.  You can read about it [...]

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My word is Rest.

My word is RESULTS!

I always have a long, ambitious list of things I want to accomplish, and this year I want to see the results!

My word is almost on here... actually I think "unstruck" might be a typo of my word UNSTUCK :)

My word is Decide . . .

My word for 2013 is True. I am so looking forward to another word, another year, and another adventure.

my word this year is simplicty!

Climb!

My OLW for 2013 -- enlighten :)

Hello, what a GREAT list... any chance you have a pdf or something of it... would make a great prompt, i sort of want to see if I can use every single word on the list throughout the year... how cool would that be?
my word for the year is closure...

my one little word for 2013 is BELIEVE. :) Some sad things were happend on 2012 but I pushed myself to believe that good things happend everyday in my life^^

Yearn

My word is discernment. Wanting to see people and things in my life from God's perspective

My word is CHEER :) For feeling good and appreciating all the little things that make my life a blessed one. And, for being able to support my kids in their endeavours (hockey, dance & everything else). We've also started a cheer jar - where we note things that make us happy and put them in. On Dec 31, 2013, we'll sit down and read all about our amazing year of cheer :)

My word is limitless!

Hi Ali,
I did not initially respond to the OLW posts bc I had decided this year I would not do it. It wasn't working for me and I could not think of a word. Nothing meaningful came to me at all.

Now I have changed my mind. I wrote a whole (long) blog post on it if you want to read it. But my word is NURTURE.

It's funny, when you google images for "nurture yourself" you get a lot of yoga and bubble bath pics. But that is NOT the meaning I am ascribing to nurture. The short story is, a had a conversation last week that included this gem:

Everything that is good in life comes with an element of suffering.

It blew my mind. And we talked about NURTURING vs INDULGING. For me, I love to indulge myself by lazing around and doing other things that are fine in moderation, but have negative effects over time. Relaxing, eating whatever I want, reading a book instead of doing laundry, etc are not, for me "nurturing" activities. They are indulgent things.

Nurturing, in this sense, is doing things that take care of yourself and have positive long term effects (for some people that might include relaxing with a good book, just not for me). Nurturing is going to the gym. Nurturing is doing my laundry so I have clothes for work. Nurturing is saving money instead of blowing it.

There's more at my blog post but that is the gist, My word is NURTURE.

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