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2019 Word-of-the-Year

1/1/2019

 
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I can't believe that this is my 11th year of setting intentions for the year ahead by selecting a word instead of making resolutions.  My initial introduction to this was through motivational speaker Christine Kane who suggests you can change your life by anwering a few questions:
1. What really matters?
2. What am I avoiding by worrying?
3. Whose business am I in mentally instead of my own?
4. Where can I spend money, save time or reduce stress?
5. Is the peace I'm seeking already here?

Each time I have selected a word to guide me during the year, it is sometimes meant to force me to step out of my shell and other times to encourage me to sit more quietly.  And often I have an artisan create something for me to celebrate that word, and often order several items (sometimes jewellery or pottery) so that I can share my favorite guiding word with friends and family.  

I also label a journal/sketchbook every year so that I can track my year, both the ups and downs, in order to see how my chosen word affects my choices and how I treat opportunities.

Previous words have been:
  1. BELIEVE:  My first word-of-the-year in 2009 was inspired by the recent Christmas season and my young children. I loved the fact that it meant to 'feel sure of the truth of.' It is about wonder and seeing things from a new perspective, with fresh new eyes.
  2. FEARLESS:  I found I was getting caught up in the fear of how I was perceived by others and the fear of failure. Whenever I noticed fear in myself, I would focus on my word and it helped me to overcome challenges, it actually helped me to be fearless in so many little ways.
  3. SURRENDER: I decided that 2011 would be a year of letting go of my history of control…of self and others…and allowing things to happen.  And, boy, did things happen.  Yes, both good and bad, but always in the end for the better.
  4. STILL:  For 2012 I wanted to grow both as an artist and human being, and remembered the verse in Psalm 46:10 ‘Be still’.  I tend to feel like I have to do everything, you know, that sense of obligation.  Not only because I feel I should but because I worry that I don’t do enough.  I actually went through a physical injury that forced stillness, and it seemed that everything that needed doing got done.  And I felt so much more peace in my life by allowing it.
  5. WISDOM:  In 2013 I wanted to further my education as well as seeking knowledge and understanding of others and myself.  Wisdom is considered a cardinal virtue, though because of my passionate artist’s nature I struggle with stepping back and attempting to control my reactions…still a work in progress.
  6. GRACE:  My word for 2014.  To me practicing grace is similar to gaining wisdom in my hope to extend grace to myself and others.  Theologically divine grace inspires virtuous impulses and imparts strength to endure trials.  I believe it is about compassion and understanding and also about acceptance.
  7. RESERVOIR:  "If you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal.  A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself shares its super abundant water." ~ Bernard of Clairvaux, Celtic Monk      
  8. BRAVE:  You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs. ~ Katherine Center...I just needed to remember that being brave doesn't necessarily mean anything big, but rather taking small steps that lead to bigger things.
  9. QUERENCIA:  a place from which one’s strength is drawn, where one feels at home; the place where you are most your authentic self.  My hope was to remind myself that I don't need to make any decisions in haste, or at all, and that I need to come back to my center, to my core, and make decisions based on the things that fill rather than deplete me.
  10. ORENDA:  an Iroquois name for a spiritual power inherent in people that empowers them to affect the world, or to effect change in their own lives.    

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