I was listening to a podcast about why you should set your WORD OF THE YEAR and I realized with all my goal planning + content planning for the next few months, that I didn’t set a word of the year. In fact, I realized I don’t know if I want to for 2020, because as of right now I’m not sure what it’s gonna look like. We just moved and I have a few opportunities for new gigs that will drastically change my day-to-day life depending on which one I move forward with. Every year, I create my Word of the Year to help motivate me for the upcoming year. It's more than just New Years Resolutions or Goals, it's more of a life mantra that I come up with and print for my home office. 2020 feels different though.
So, I am not creating a word of the year for 2020, at least not right now.
Looking at Past Words of the Year
Looking back, my word of the year for 2019 was #INTENTIONAL, and my word of the year in 2018 was #CREATE (each with their own blog post about my intentions of WHY I chose that specific word). While I started off each year off with a different idea of what that meant, I quickly realized that sometimes it’s really hard to plan out everything - especially in 2019.
Between Ryeson’s permanent school closing, me saying no to a lot of potential projects, us buying AND selling a house, moving to a new place where we didn’t know anyone, and Jeff getting promoted — 2019 was a year of transition for my family.
I definitely learned that I had to be more intentional with my time when I had less of it (so my word of the year was actually perfect). Planning ahead, each month, each week, and each morning — knowing what tasks had to get done for my clients was even more important than if Rye was in school full time.
Now that he is back in school again, I’m definitely not going to forget how important being intentional is.
So the moral of the story is to plan ahead, but also remember that life tends to throw you curveballs. And you should just roll with the punches and just enjoy life like every day is #TACOtuesday, or something like that.
I am curious to hear from you: 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎? 𝗪𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭??
