Tell Me Something Tuesday was hosted by Rainy Day Ramblings, but she has (temporarily?) stopped blogging. So a group of us that had been doing posts (Linda from Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell, Karen from For What It’s Worth, Roberta from Offbeat YA, Jen from That’s What I’m Talking About and me) decided to get together, come up with some more topics and keep the meme going.Michelle made us a logo and we’re off and running. For more details, check out this post where I reintroduced the meme.
I can be sporadic, but when I do join in I will always share next week’s topic at the end of the post. So, today is about…
Resolutions / Words of the Year: Do you do them?
I have fluctuated between doing resolutions and not doing them over the years. Over the past few years, I’ve stopped because rather than being a start of the year goal setter, I’m more of a continuous goal setter. As you may have noticed with my FitReaders posts, I’m constantly working on myself – that’s my fitness goals, but every month I take stock of my progress on several goals and adjust. So in the sense that January 1 is the start of a new month, yes, I set goals for the year January 1. But in reality, it’s just part of an ongoing process.
This year, I decided I really do want to do a word of the year. I like the idea of having a mantra to guide me throughout the year as I focus on those continuous goals.
Manifest
That’s my word of the year because it embraces the next step for me. I’ve done a lot of work over the years and I’m proud of how far I’ve come. But this past year I’ve done a lot goal setting without fully committing and making my goals a reality. It’s time to making everything I want to feel and experience a reality… via my thoughts, actions, beliefs, and emotions… it’s time to manifest. I need to believe in my goals and live them in every choice I make, I thought I think, every thing I feel. I’m really excited about it and I even got myself a bracelet to wear everyday with the word on it. If I remember, when it comes, I’ll update this post with a picture.
Edit to add picture! I forgot before publishing but same day isn’t so bad, right?
I love your word. I like to pick something that sets the mood (like manifest) rather a concrete goal. That I will most likely miss lol
Happy New Year and may you manifest your dreams!
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
That’s such a great word! I don’t normally do words and like you I like to set goals and adjust throughout the year. This year I also decided to pick a word: simplify. I make things much too complicated and then just stop doing them. This year instead of stopping I’m going to take a look at if I need to simplify something.
You can do this! Manifest away, dear!
Excellent choice! I hadn’t settled on any words, goals or resolutions for the year but I’m veering towards accountability. Too often, I want to do things, or say I’ll do things – like read a specific book – and then I don’t. I’d like this year to be the year I stop getting in my own way, I guess! 🙂
Good luck with manifesting all you want to achieve.
I love your word choice and how you describe what it means to you. And the physical reminder of the bracelet is genius!
You picked a very good word for a year! I like the bracelet!
Berls – I love the word and love the bracelet – where did you get it? I totally want to get one with KINDNESS on it. Yea for new starts!
I think you are amazing and will do great!
Love that you’re putting feet to your goals and have picked an action word for your life, Berls.
I really love your word of the year and mind-set to match! I hope you’ll get to “manifest” each and every day, in things big and small.
Manifest – I love that. It could be a perfect word of the year for me too. 😀