It seems like the thing to do. Choose a word at the start of a new year and use it to form new attitudes or goals. Kind of like New Year resolutions. Although without using the word ‘resolution’, one doesn’t need to feel guilty when specific goals aren’t achieved. Perfect.
Last year I chose the word focus and I think I did pretty darn well. I looked at myself, my family, my big picture and where I wanted to be and I changed things to make it the way I wanted. I pulled away from the scrapbooking industry a little and concentrated on other things. It meant that I lost many very public things, like my design teams and my online presence (did ya miss me?), but it meant I had more of a presence in my family life and gained some other things – like a qualification in Sports and Fitness. Big changes for a small town girl, really.
So now that 2011 has bought me focus, what do I want for 2012? What do you want for 2012? It’s not a bad time for that little bit of reflection.
My word this year is simplify. I’m going to concentrate on making things as simple as possible. I’m notorious for making a job harder than it needs to be.
I am itching to get back into the online scrapbooking thing a little more. Create more. Share more. Enjoy posting on my blog more often. It didn’t take me long to miss it. This year though, I’m not going to make it hard to do.
Simplify.
Perfect example. Braden’s birthday. Lots of people around and not enough birthday dinner to feed them all. Keepin things easy meant a call to the local Fish n chip shop, grabbing some fish from the smoker and hanging out together in the best Kiwi dinner there is. Simple. Love it.
The whole gang enjoying fish n chips, kiwi style.
Fish caught the day before, straight from the smoker.
A happy Abby with her Uncle Vaughan.
What’s your word for 2012?
Laters
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