Last year, a fellow blogger, talked about having a word that she was
living her life by. Last year that word was "stretch". I thought that was pretty cool and I admired many of the things that she had accomplished
through the year. Then today I was reading another blog and the author had chosen a word for her year, which was
focus. When New Years was approaching I knew I wanted to do the same. So for the past few days I have been thinking of what my word be and why.
So, the word I came up with is
STRENGTHEN.
I don't just mean a physical strengthening...although it one of my goals. I want to
strengthen many aspects of my life.
I have a desire to study my scriptures more, pray and fast with my family, develop a relationship with my Savior so I can develop a stronger testimony of the gospel.I want to make myself more accessible to my children and spend time listening, not just hearing, them to help strengthen me as a Mom.I have been attending Weight Watchers meetings for the past 5 months and have lost 21 pounds. I want to continue to attend my meetings and attain my goal this year. I want to be stronger when it comes to controlling my addiction to food.After being so inspired by Steve and his accomplishment of running 2 marathons in 2007, I decided to sign on to do a 1/2 marathon in May of this year. So I want to strengthen myself physically to be able to run much of the race and cross the finish line with Steve and the children cheering me on.I have drawn, sewn, created crafts since I was a child. I would like to strengthen those talents and use them more than I have before.I want to strengthen my confidence in myself by trying new things and not being scared of failure or of the unknown. So often I have stood on the sidelines and watched as others tried things, but I want to start to participate in my life.I look forward to updating you on how I am doing at STRENGTHENING myself.
2 comments:
I love it Nikki! "Strengthen", great verb. I need to do the same. How about "survive", just kidding. :)
Can't wait to read about what you're going to strengthen though out this year. Funny sometimes how we need to be careful what we ask for. :)
Shawna
great description of your word. it will be a treasure to go back on read this post on Dec. 31st.
way to go and thanks for the shout out
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