One word… FOCUS

Allow the New Year to bring you a renewed joy for life.

New Years always brings a sense of need for new resolutions. The trouble with resolutions is they are short lived. Usually by the third week in January we are done with those darned resolutions until next year. Then in the New Year regret sets in and we declare one more time our resolutions. Sounds much like insanity.

There is a better way.

That better way is by declaring a commitment to living based upon one single word throughout the year. I discovered this at Grit and Glory. You can read more about living this one word at One Word 365.

For 2012 my word is FOCUS.

I have four intentional focus areas I am declaring and working in for the year. They are as follows:

• I am committed to intentionally focus on my health and fitness so that I can live without disease, full of energy, and for my family.
• I intentionally focus on supporting and loving my wife so that our relationship and friendship grows.
• I will intentionally focus on creating “Visioneers” so that others can design a life that matters for them and their families.
• I intentionally focus on capturing beautiful images from the Northwest so that others can see and feel what I see through my lens.

These intentions/goals are written as affirmation statements.

• I am fit and healthy.
• I love and connect with my wife.
• I create dreams by visioneering lives that matter.
• I capture beautiful photographs of the Northwest.

I encourage you to drop the resolution thing and instead do something that feels easier and more powerful… one word.

Invest some time thinking about your word and then make a commitment to share it and act on it. I would love to hear what you selected and how it is going for you throughout the year.