This Year’s One Little Word

This year I am doing something a little different in reference to my goals and plans this year. I have heard of this concept before and never really felt like it was something that could work for me until now. I am choosing one word to focus on for the year.

This is a big year for me, a huge year, I’m getting married, I’m starting the year off in a new position at work, discussions of house buying are finally becoming real, our next European vacation is in the works. On top of all that I put a lot of work into myself in the last year and I finally feel like I have a line to follow, I finally feel comfortable and have an idea of who I want to be (I won’t say that I know because as life moves forward our dreams and goals change).

2014 was what I call a middle year. Nothing to exceptional happened but nothing too terrible happened either. I think that I was able to grow a lot and learn a lot, which is always a great thing. And honestly I feel like we (Chuck, Brody and I) needed this year. We were able to save so much for
the wedding, the house, and the truck that Chuck just got. We took the time to work on ourselves, Chuck spent a lot of time in the woods, while I worked on the numerous artistic projects that I love. We both made huge strides with our careers. I’m happy with how this year came about, but am looking very forward to next year.

This year I want to build.

We are building a family here; a life and a lifestyle. After spending a year figuring out what we want, now it’s time to get there. To do that we need to build ourselves, our savings, our home, our marriage, our life. This year we are going to do this together.

I feels kind of big. Not big in a daunting, kind of scary way but big in an exciting, wonderful, hopeful way.

There are a few things from the last year that I want to carry into this year. I want to continue to build relationships with friends that are far away. I want to keep building our savings (this house that I want so bad, is so close!). I want to build on everything I learned about myself in the last year. I fell flat on my face with anything that has to do with fitness last year so this year it will be a big focus for me to build my fitness (that dress man, I have to get in shape).

This year I want to build my knowledge base. I have a lot of experiments in the works, especially in the garden, and kitchen. Both Chuck and I want to learn how to do a few more things around the house. Obviously with the wedding in the works we are going to build our family.