A great New Year's tradition that I'm partaking in is the Ali Edwards' One Little Word challenge. Ali Edwards is a scrapbooking designer and blogger whose blog is fantastic. She inspires me for so many reasons, but one of the outstanding things she does is choose a word to be her focus for the year. (I know many others on the web do this in similar incarnations, but she is the first I ever saw do it). Her One Little Word for the year is Story (past words: Nurture, Vitality, Peace). Ali encourages her readers to choose a word to guide them through the new year. (Check out their word choices here.)
Another blogger/artist I adore is Kal Barteski whose blog I Love Life has become a favorite read of mine this last year. I purchased her artwork for Charlie's nursery and have loved it every day. She is also an Ali Edwards fan and took the One Little Word challenge and expanded it. She chose several words to guide her through the new year (Rebuild, Soothe, Go, Story).
For this year's challenge, I brainstormed a few difference words that could inspire me in my goals:
ACCOMPLISH- school, goals
SAVE- money, resources
HOME- save money for our future home, work hard at maintaining the refuge that is our home
NOURISH- my body, my mind, my family
PREPARE- stay on top of my homework, work on food storage, save money for our home
WORK- treat my jobs of Mother and Keeper of the House (not to be confused with housekeeper) as serious work, work hard at my schoolwork
HEALTH- healthy eating, healthy activity, exercise, healthy weight, strong body, healthy family
STUDY- stay ahead of my homework, study the gospel (Read the Book of Mormon with Sam's guidelines and the Old Testament)
I'm still revisiting this and paring down so that I will have a manageable short list of words that can be my mantra for the year. I love this exercise and I hope you will join me in it!
What will your One Little Word(s) be?
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