So we are a few months away now from the time when we all
made our wonderful New Year’s resolutions. I’m guessing many of us have
forgotten, misplaced, or lost motivation about those ambitious goals we set. We
started the year with a nice list thinking 2014 would be the year. Now as we
approach the end of March some of us may no longer have the drive/ motivation we
did January 1st, do not fear my friends!
Yesterday we got to go to a wonderful sisters conference and
learned something I found to be a unique idea to umbrella those New Year’s
resolutions. Now this is not something I came up with please forgive me for
forgetting the man that said to do it, the idea was passed to me through the
grape vine by one of our mission leaders. So instead of making an enormous list
of goals, pick ONE work that you want to have, become, do ect, and that word
defines your 2014 year. These words can be anything your little heart desires.
Some may have the word try, another could be hope, another intellect. The
possibilities are endless. By picking one word to motto the year by you no
longer have to become discouraged by the never ending list of goals. Instead
there is one simple word that you’re striving to implement for your year. It
will be awesome as the years go by to see how your words change and how you
change.
Some of you may have thought of a word right off the bat as
you read this; others may take a little time and meditation. As you’re
contemplating on your word make sure you look deep into yourself to figure out
which word is going to help you, then look out and get prepared to take on the
world haha. ( keep thinking of your word because I want you to share.)
The word I chose is PASSION.
Growing up I had a great passion for basketball and
volleyball. I absolutely loved the practices, games, competition I loved it
ALL. My world pretty much revolved
around my sports. In the summer I would go to camps and try to stay in the gym
as long as I could. I constantly begged my dad to take me to shoot some hoops.
Once the specific sport season would come around I would eat sleep and drink it
up. I thrived off of the competition. I loved the adrenaline that came in games
and the feeling of success after the many long hours of practice I put in.
Sports were my life then the day came when I graduated. aahh The many life lessons and endless, wonderful
memories stayed with me, but that chapter was over and it was time to move on.
I choose the word passion because I want to have passion for
life. I realized that in the book of life each chapter comes to an end but
another outstanding chapter begins. I want to institute the same amount of
passion in life as I had for sports. To really live in the moment not being
caught up in the glory days of the past or the unexpected mysteries of the
future, but I want to have an absolutely love for life in the moment. So no
matter what part of my book of life I’m in, I will have a passion drive and
motivation!
From this Blog I want you ALL COMMENT on the blog or on
facebook and share your 1 WORD!!!!!! It will be awesome to see the different words
that everyone chooses for these last 9 months of 2014! Even if you heard of
this and started it in January please share your word to help inspire others.
Courtney, I loved this post! I have been horrible at New Year's resolutions and when my mom told me about this in January I decided to do it! The word I chose was "nice." I want to be a nicer person. I always want to do the nice thing in situations I am in and say nice things in conversations that I am in. It hasn't even been 3 months, but I know I can tell a difference in my attitude towards others. I also feel like I notice more when the people around me are nice. This is a great idea and I hope everyone takes the challenge! Thanks for serving the Lord, Courtney! You're great!
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