All-In 2013

I like to pick a defining word at the beginning of a calendar year.

My purpose is to think of this word frequently and let it guide my daily choices to a positive end. It’s one of those things that really works for me and helps my sometimes manic and over-scheduled brain focus on what my gut knows is right. AND is worth my Time. (Time should always get a capital T! Like Mr. T., Time does pity the fools.)

In thinking about this year’s word, I kept returning to the concept of all-in. Yes, it’s two words or a one-word hyphenate, but it has one meaning for me. This is a defining year for my business. It will be a turning point and I’m determined to steer it in an upward direction. The only way to accomplish this is to be all-in.

All-in works for my family and my home. It does not mean I need to “have it all” (which is such a BS media creation anyway.) All-in means that whatever I am focused on at the time will get my full attention. Be it my boys, my husband, creating a new product, filling an order or folding the laundry, I am all-in.

I’ve listed specific goals in the past in these posts. I won’t be doing that this year. I’ve learned that publishing a list is not effective for me. I need pen and paper to cross out and add scribbles in the margins and to eventually make a fresh list for the new to-do-s.

A new year, a new “word”. Ready, set, go.

You can read previous One Word posts:
2012 Clarity
2011 Harmony
2010 Warmth