So, in the spirit of it being a New Year and a New Decade I've been thinking about what word I hope defines this year for me. What feeling do I want to get out of 2020? Granted, I've never done a word of the year before but I've seen posts on social media and thought the concept was interesting. Let's be real, anything that will spark some type of inspiration, I'm interested (within limits of course).
I attempted to do this last year, but by the time it came back to my mind, the year was half way over and I felt the tone had already been set. Which it hadn't, you can always change the tone but that's what I thought at the time. So here I am, 7 days into 2020, ready to pick my word of the year.
In my last post, I talked a lot about not sweating the small stuff this year (okay, I actually said not giving a fuck but I was a little sassy when I wrote that) and doing what makes me happy! This gets lost in translation a lot for me, because life happens. I tend to get caught up in all the "stuff" and lose sight of all the awesome stuff going on around me just because one thing happened. Again, work in progress. I'm hoping that picking a word will give me something to hold on to in those moments, because those moments WILL happen to the best of us. It's not really about those not so good moments anyway, it's about how we get ourselves out of it and how we move forward. I say all this as I'm sipping my tea of course. But seriously, why let all the "stuff" that happens in our day-to-day lives define and set the tone?
That's where my word comes in. My word for 2020 is Joy. That simple. Joy. I want 2020 to be full of Joy for me.
Joy is defined "as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness". Gladness, not based on circumstance.
Even if it's the smallest of things that happened in a day, it's focusing in on those moments and manifesting the joy they brought instead of letting all the negative "stuff" creep in. It's taking control of your own destiny; taking my power back as I said in my previous post! I want to get to December 31st and say, this year brought me a lot of Joy. And I'm determined to make that happen. As I said before, I have a ton of joyous things already coming my way, with moving and getting married but aside from those, it's finding those moments everyday, not only on hugely important days.
Instead of being so driven by how everything makes me FEEL, I hope to focus more on gratitude even on not so good days. Instead of being UPSET because someone hurt or disappointed me, I hope to focus on what others in my life are doing to lift me up. Instead of being so being RULED by getting all the things done, I hope to slow down and savior more moments for what they are. Instead of WORRYING and STRESSING about things that almost always work out anyway, I will choose to PRAY about it and pass those worries on to a higher power.
I am choosing Joy.
What word do you want to define your year?
I attempted to do this last year, but by the time it came back to my mind, the year was half way over and I felt the tone had already been set. Which it hadn't, you can always change the tone but that's what I thought at the time. So here I am, 7 days into 2020, ready to pick my word of the year.
In my last post, I talked a lot about not sweating the small stuff this year (okay, I actually said not giving a fuck but I was a little sassy when I wrote that) and doing what makes me happy! This gets lost in translation a lot for me, because life happens. I tend to get caught up in all the "stuff" and lose sight of all the awesome stuff going on around me just because one thing happened. Again, work in progress. I'm hoping that picking a word will give me something to hold on to in those moments, because those moments WILL happen to the best of us. It's not really about those not so good moments anyway, it's about how we get ourselves out of it and how we move forward. I say all this as I'm sipping my tea of course. But seriously, why let all the "stuff" that happens in our day-to-day lives define and set the tone?
That's where my word comes in. My word for 2020 is Joy. That simple. Joy. I want 2020 to be full of Joy for me.
Joy is defined "as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness". Gladness, not based on circumstance.
Even if it's the smallest of things that happened in a day, it's focusing in on those moments and manifesting the joy they brought instead of letting all the negative "stuff" creep in. It's taking control of your own destiny; taking my power back as I said in my previous post! I want to get to December 31st and say, this year brought me a lot of Joy. And I'm determined to make that happen. As I said before, I have a ton of joyous things already coming my way, with moving and getting married but aside from those, it's finding those moments everyday, not only on hugely important days.
Instead of being so driven by how everything makes me FEEL, I hope to focus more on gratitude even on not so good days. Instead of being UPSET because someone hurt or disappointed me, I hope to focus on what others in my life are doing to lift me up. Instead of being so being RULED by getting all the things done, I hope to slow down and savior more moments for what they are. Instead of WORRYING and STRESSING about things that almost always work out anyway, I will choose to PRAY about it and pass those worries on to a higher power.
I am choosing Joy.
What word do you want to define your year?
"We can not cure all the sorrow, but we can choose to live in joy"
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