I love New Years. It’s filled with so much hope. Anything is possible at that moment. This could be your year to run a marathon. This could be your year to get out of debt. This could be your year for that dream vacation. Nothing is holding you back. I just love that feeling of a fresh start.

But we all know how quickly that wears off, ordering that candy bar in a cup disguised as coffee on Jan. 2nd after swearing off sweets Jan, 1st, anyone, anyone? I’ve given up on the idea of resolutions. I have seen them fail too many times to think it’s a good way to bring meaningful change to my life. Instead I’ve started implementing a word of the year. It’s a word that I aspire to. One that has meaning to me.

My 2019 words was Intentional. I found too often I was letting life happen to me. As a business owner, wife and mom of three I have a lot of people asking a lot of me. It was leaving me drained and I felt I was missing out on what I really wanted. My time was being filled with all good things, but what I really wanted were the best things. The things important to me. It was time to let go of the good and make way for what I really wanted. For me that is family. My girls and husband are my number one. My business is here to help me reach my greatest goals. By being more intentional I was able prioritize what was helping me reach the life I wanted.

Coming into 2020, I am feeling energized and ready to take on big dreams. But being a creative sometimes it’s hard to take those big dreams and turn them into a reality. I’ll be honest, I am easy distracted. I jump from one shiny thing to the next. So at the start of the year I wrote down exactly where I want my life to be in ten years. What does my marriage look like? What about my relationship with my kids? Where will I be financially? Where will I live? What about my health? What personal things do I want to have achieved? What about business? From there I made goals but I picked the one that I would like to focus on first. But I knew the way I was going to achieve that goal was not going to be though one grande act but daily habits and actions. Thats when the word Consistent came to me. I knew that by consistently doing all the little things, the big things will naturally come.

I challenge you to come up with your own word for the year. Some others that I love are: Balance, Inspire, Connect, Joy, Simplify, Grace, Brave, Create, Persist, Appreciate. Whats your word for the year?