Better Sort of Resolution

[nozenfordaddy]

Resolutions are something I make and fail to keep - still I make them and then I am always disappointed when I look at my year and my failure. I was reading something that I don't remember anymore about these women who had an idea to replace resolutions.

It struck me as an intriguing idea at the time and after mulling it over I think I'm going to try it.

So instead of making resolutions I will inevitably fail at, I am going to pick a word that will guide me through the year. A touchstone. A reminder not of specific hopes I had while drunk on New Years Eve but of the sense of what I would like my year to be for me.

I'll still be doing things, and trying to make change happen in my life but without the limitation of a list.

I've looked at lists of words and let them percolate to see if any resonated. I've held one in my head for a day to see if it changed my perceptions and reactions. I've picked up, tried on and discarded words and then picked them up and tried again.

I have settled on: Release.

We'll see what happens.

Comments

[ladyofbrileith.livejournal.com]

I've done this the last two years and found it worked really well. I'm still whittling my list down, trying to find the right word for 2010, but Release is a good one and in my final 5 I'm playing around with, too. :-)

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah I spent a week on my final five.... this is what I'm going with.

[deensey.livejournal.com]

I like this word.

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

Me too!