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through subscribing to the Word-zine! I'm so grateful to have you as a reader.
My "word-based" New Year's thank you to you is one I received from my business coach, Christine Kane, back in 2012 -- a very cool way to create a fabulous New Year by focusing on what you desire, rather than on what's not working or what you want to fix. (We all know that resolutions are all about this, right? Which is why we so often fail at them. Fixing what's broken about
ourselves is just not very inspiring.)
Download Christine's "
Word-Of-The-Year Discovery Tool" to help you find the word that will make your 2015 the best year yet. But first, here are some ideas Christine shared in one of her recent zines:
And here are some examples from Christine, as she had her whole team choose a "
Word-Of-The-Year" and a corresponding intention for 2015:
PRESENCE - I want to be totally aware and present wherever I am, with whomever I am with at that time. (Andrew)
ALLOW - I want to allow space in my life- for new people, for positive thinking, for new
ideas and awareness; allow for imperfection and allow myself to lead from a place of confidence, self-acceptance and love. (Michelle)
BELIEVE - For me, this means believing in new levels of possibility for myself and my business. (Robbin)
CONNECT - Several incidents from last year have made me feel the desire to really connect and stay connected with those that are in my life. You never know the last time you'll be able to
connect with someone. "Connect" is a reminder to make the most out of every minute you get to talk to or spend time with someone. (Amanda)
BECOME - I want to allow my intentions to lead my spirit in my evolution on this planet and in everything that I do - constantly calling in a higher level of myself every day. (Elaine)
EMBODY - For me, embodying means to live into something. To take it much deeper than mental knowledge
and make it part of who I am in the world. This year for me will be about embodying leadership, embodying heart-centered sales and embodying love. (Sara)
RESOLVE - I am looking "to deal with conclusively; settle; solve" and "to separate into constituent or elementary parts; break up; cause or disintegrate" several core areas of my life, work and relationships. (Dain)
REVIVE - I want to return to life after some personal
stuff that has left me "null and void" in 2014. This includes reviving my mental energy, my health, and activity. I want to renew what I want from my life (not who I was, but who I want to be). I want to bring cheerfulness back, to my heart, my spirit, and to other people - and I want to flourish with these renewed hopes and dreams. (Jackie)
TREASURE - (in verb form). To treasure this amazing work I get to do, to treasure the people and connections in my life
and business, to treasure the abundance I experience, and to treasure all the ways my soul, self and business continue to expand. (Even the stuff that's not comfortable). (Christine)
Feel free to use one of the words above for your word of the year -- I've decided Christine's word and intention are perfect for me. After all, I do treasure the amazing work I get to do, and the wonderful
people it connects me with -- like you! And I've loved the idea of finding hidden treasure since I was a kid.
I hope you enjoy coming up with your perfect word for 2015 -- be sure to download Christine Kane's
"Word-Of-The-Year Discovery Tool" -- it's a fabulous reflective process and a lovely way to spend time with yourself and your dreams on New Year's Day. And if you want to know more about Christine, here's her bio:
Christine Kane is the Mentor to People Who are Changing the World. She helps women and men Uplevel their lives, their
businesses and their success. Her weekly Uplevel You eZine goes out to over 37,000 subscribers. If you are ready to take your life and your world to the next level, you can sign up for a FREE subscription at http://christinekane.com.
One last thing, if you've read this far :)... Here's a poem to read if and when you find yourself discouraged, disheartened, disillusioned, or dismayed about life and/or at your inability to keep resolutions. I wrote this the day after my Coastal Writing Retreat this past November.
Two-poem Morning
It’s a two-poem morning,
a fellow poet says
when I encounter her on the beach
at 7 a.m. or so, her heading back
from the end of the island, me heading toward it
and I think, What are the
two poems
I could write this morning?
One would be about love,
the other loss
and they would be the same poem–
how our hearts are broken
so many times by
the time we hit our 5Os,
broken by the losses,
the terrible things
people do to one another
the terrible things life
does to us all
the terrible things
we do to ourselves, the way
we have stopped
believing
our own promises, stopped
making them.
Oh my friend
with the joyous quick laugh and the
beautiful eyes that
darken with such terrible
sadness–don’t try again. No,
please, begin again instead
begin again and again
and again and again,
like these waves
breaking,
forming
breaking,
forming
breaking,
forming
breaking,
forming
so that what
you can trust yourself for
is not your arrival
at that mythical shore
called “there”
but rather
your willingness
to set off
into the “here”
of each and every
moment, for
all that’s worth,
to let love
win this high stakes game
that is your life
~
Maureen Ryan Griffin
November, 2014
Wishing you many mornings, afternoons, and evenings of joy-filled writing time, and a New Year filled with peace, possibility, and prosperity,
Maureen
