Are you a Warrior for Yourself?
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Every year at about this time, I begin to focus on the year to come. So many of us make New Years Resolutions, set goals, or perhaps reflect on what the past year delivered.
The practice that I have come to love, however, is choosing a word with intention.
Why Do This?
When we give our brain something to focus on, it is able to quiet some of the chatter. We give our brain a direction. In choosing the word for the year, I make a declaration to myself and where I am going to channel my thoughts.
How to Choose Your Word
In past years I have chosen words like Courage, Blessed, Hope, and Believe. I chose Joy during an especially difficult year when joy was an elusive and unimaginable feeling. I then have a bracelet made at MyIntent and wear the word as an outward sign of my inward commitment. The simple bracelet is a daily reminder of what I want my brain to focus on and think about.
This year, Warrior is where I am setting my intention.
2023 has been a year that I would like to forget, yet if I did, I would negate the undeniable growth that has come from pain and this journey. My life is different because I have made it so. I have stopped living as if life just happens to me and then dealing with what comes. To some degree, we do deal with what we are dealt, however it is what we do in those times that matters most. What we CHOOSE and we all do have choices in how we show up for ourselves even in the pain.
I am becoming a warrior for myself.
I have failed and succeeded in 2023. I have explored my failures from a place of understanding for myself, not judgement. I have learned and been humbled, and I have grown beyond what I imagined possible. What I want for myself and my life moving forward, however, requires me to become a warrior. I have always been a warrior for others, but now it's time for me to do the same for myself - way past time in fact.
What word will you choose this year?
Choosing a word is such a simple practice, yet it is so powerful. Post the word you choose on your computer, bathroom mirror, car dashboard or wherever you will see it often. There is power in the mind seeing and processing the same message over and over.
I would love for you to share your word here and even your reason for choosing it. I would be honored to cheer you on as you focus your intent for the year. Want to schedule a free chat to discuss how to find your word, I would love to connect.
Happy New Year! May this year be filled with the words you think intentionally that help create the life you desire.