Comments on: Clarity

By: Mani

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:18:14 +0000

My word of the year is drive. 2013 was a year of unforeseen circumstances and family situations that needed my complete attention, causing me to reassess and change direction in my career. After so many hurdles and setbacks, this year is forward motion.

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By: Mari

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:16:29 +0000

First time visiting your blog and this post was something that I just had answer too… Last year my word was “Energy”, but this year I have a few words “Strength” “Release” “Calm” “Speak Up” and “Focus”. As a mother of a developmentally disabled daughter, I’m faced with a lot of challenges to the health and support services this year due to an illness she developed soon 2y ago. I have to find more Strength so I can Speak Up for her rights, Release things that don’t matter or that hold me back. I want to find more calm to be able to focus on everything I want and need to do, for my daughter, for my own health and for my art….

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By: Robin

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:17:52 +0000

Great discussion. My word for 2014 is PATIENCE! Being a true Taurean this feels like the hardest word on earth and the most fulfilling. I drew it twice from a deck of cards while I meditated on the year to come. Already I am feeling calmer as a result.It reminds me to be more mindful too which is something I am trying hard to put into my daily practice. Have a wonderful year ahead.

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By: Anne Blankson-Hemans

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:16:32 +0000

In reply to Alyson Stanfield.

That is so true Alyson – focussed planning time. I have just realised how easy it is to slip back into my old habits but following a daily plan really helps… If i find myself going off course i go back to the plan and ask myself, what should i be doing now…

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By: Barbara Muir

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 06:42:18 +0000

Happy New Year Alyson,
I love the word clarity, and have already revised my word for the year to bliss, followed by order. Clarity and order go hand in hand as you reminded me. I have a big wall calendar on my wall too, and I filled it in today. Bliss is what I want to achieve with the clarity and order. Last year I did ten minute meditations to a new word each morning. Sometimes one word would inspire me for a month, and sometimes the words changed every day. Words are powerful. You have picked a great one.
Here’s to clarity, order and bliss in 2014,
Barbara

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By: Dee

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:48:53 +0000

Happy New Year Alyson! Clarity is a great word.
I think my word will be Evolve. Change is painful sometimes, and it can be too easy to be stuck in a rut.

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By: Jean Smith

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:43:54 +0000

Thank you for so many thought-provoking discussion topics, Alyson! Last year, I was a fireman, putting out fires all year long. This year I am planning to be more balanced – more aware with a longer lead-in time to all the issues that swirl around in my life; more balanced in my eating, exercising, family, and art-making; so I don’t need to put out so many fires, and I can live in the moment more.

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By: Karen Meredith

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:51:32 +0000

I like the idea of using one word as a touchstone for the coming year! Mine is “Clear-ity”! To clear away anything that is not positively serving to my benefit. It will take time to not only determine which ones to discard and to go through the process of actually dropping them. But it is also a good thing to do, considering my upcoming 70th birthday…a time to really prioritize!

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By: liza myers

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:02:35 +0000

I have been pondering this… I actually was having a hard time choosing just one. I have three. And now I find out that three is an acceptable number. I will have to read the Chris Brogan post.
The first and most important word: AWARE.
I choose to be aware of my choices and actions. Aware of my productivity, my focus, my health. Aware encompasses a lot, but I find that just thinking of it gives me a jump start on action and decisions.
Second: RESPECT: Respecting my inner self. Respecting the choices I make. Respecting others without being dragged into their peripheral chaos. Respecting my health, my home, my art.
Third: CONSERVE. To conserve my flailing focus and energy and use it in decisive and constructive ways.
Thanks for this reminder Alyson! And it’s wonderful to read the choices others have made. They are all good reminders.

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By: Daggi Wallace

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:46:49 +0000

I went with the 3 words as well: Clarity. Do. Faith. It was going to be focus instead of clarity because I’m trying to narrow my focus on the work I do, but first I need to have the clarity to know what to focus on! Do, as in Nike’s “just do it” to remind me to procrastinate less in the creation and business side of art as well as for my health and fitness (though of Action first to keep it a noun, but that sounded too demanding and could lead me to overwhelm, something I struggle with). And faith to let go of worries about my kids, my relationships, the outcome of my works, plus to remind me to make time for my spiritual practice, which will bring me full circle back to the word clarity, because that springs out of my spiritual connection:)

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