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January 1, 2011

Three Words and a Song

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I have been reading a lot of New Year’s Resolutions and I have never been real good about making resolutions and keeping them.  One of the most popular approaches I have read about is to pick 3 words that are going to be your focus for the year.  I think I could handle that.  I may have to refer back to this blog post to remind myself what my 3 words are (like maybe even by next week!) but maybe it will be a good thing for me to write them down.  So here we go.

Embrace

I am going to embrace life more.  This means I am going to live in the moment, not worry so much about the future and live each day to its fullest.  It also means that I am going to embrace people more—whether it is a hug or a note of encouragement or just trying to meet and make more friends—I am going to do it.

Hope

I am going to focus on hope this year and try to convey this message to everyone I meet along my journey whether it is in person on on my blog.   Hope is a good thing, don’t you think?   There are a lot of folks out there that just need a little encouragement in this department and this is a good thing—to be a promoter of hope.   It has been a tough year for many but there is still hope.  There is always hope.

Generosity

I am going to practice generosity more.  There are many ways that I can do this—I don’t think it has to be just monetary.  I think generosity can be extended in many ways–the gift of time to someone could be a real gift.   The gift of just doing little things like letting someone in front of you in line or letting someone out in traffic is a small act of generosity.   And I am going to donate more—-whatever I can do , I am going to do it!

I also found a song that is going to be my theme for the year.  I think it is going to be a good thing to be reminded of time and time again–enjoy!!!  A remake of an old song but even better!!!

 

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  1. Simply Diane...
    January 03, 2011 at 07:35 am

    Great words. Many blessings in the new year. Hugs, Diane

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  2. Beth Ann
    January 03, 2011 at 08:00 am

    Same to you, Diane!!! Blessings!!!

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    September 26, 2011 at 06:04 am

    […] it. Remember EMBRACE was one of my three words I chose this year as theme words???  Well, it is.  Check it out here.   So I thought it was in good shape–looked almost brand new which was not the case with […]

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    January 01, 2012 at 07:00 am

    […] January 1st I posted Three Words and A Song.  Kind of my New Year’s Resolution.  It worked out pretty well for me to do that and I […]

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  5. Paula @ Simply Sandwich
    April 06, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    So I am on the reading late freight but I want to thank you for this! I am going to sit down and find my three words for the remainder of the year! 😀

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    1. Beth Ann
      April 06, 2012 at 01:00 pm

      Yay–I want to know what your three words are!!!

      Reply
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    January 01, 2013 at 06:05 am

    […] the past two years I tried to choose 3 words to focus on during the year.  In 2011 my words were Embrace, Hope and Generosity  My song was “Wake Up Everybody”.   This past year my three words were Surrender, […]

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