New Year Resolutions

Let me start with a disclaimer: I am no fan of New Year Resolutions!

Having said that, I have been watching a socially active friend of mine who would religiously put up a concept of a single word focus for the year at the beginning of the year.

Yes – a single word. It is not a resolution. Just a single word to define the focus for the year.

I had debated with him – how can it be just a single word? Can it be a combination of two or three words to describe? My wise friend wasn’t impressed – he said it doesn’t work that way. It has to be a single word!

Hmm, an interesting concept. That led me to think. You need to think of a single word that is going to determine the direction of the whole year. Wow!

Yes, it is a brilliant idea. To arrive at that single word – one goes through lots of emotions and thought processes. It is like writing the Vision/Mission statement for your Company.

Ultimately when you narrow down to the single word focus for the year, you would have gone through quite a bit of feelings, logical reasoning, analysis, intuition, ambition, wish etc.. Yet a single word. Thank you my friend!

Yes, I have thought of mine. Would you like to give it a try?

Happy New Year all!