I don’t generally make resolutions but this year I decided to choose a word for the year and my word this year will be “focus. “ I want to focus on the things that matter, and not give my attention to things that don’t or steal my peace. I want to put down my phone and focus on the moment. Focus on myself and my mental well-being.
Sending all my best to you and your family, Amanda
I love calling in a word of the year and now I tend to do that during the lunar new year which is at the end of January this year - synching in with the season’s cycles and calling a word that is more of a feeling and invitation -and quite magical- rather than a resolution which feels like a “have to”
It’s “Golden”- to symbolize the sun, opportunities, abundance, luxury, ease and lineage :) and then whatever else Golden decides to reveal to me in 2025
I love some of the suggestions in these comments - the “word of the year” is dynamite! My own approach this year (I wrote a post about it) is that I don’t resolve to “cut out” things. Instead I want to build more positive behaviours (e.g. more gratitude, more fresh air activity) to make less room for negative approaches like doomscrolling, panicking or time-wasting. Trying to check some positive boxes every day without getting so prescriptive that I feel guilty if I don’t always make my numbers.
Agree that every day is a new day to start again. In my case I had started to rethink my career path and now that I'm on hiatus it's the perfect time to begin - just happens that it's January.
I'm a little late with this. Happy New Year to all!
This was one of the worst holiday seasons I've ever experienced.
My husband passed away this past October 8 after a brief, difficult struggle with T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia, a rare and aggressive form of leukemia.
He was diagnosed in February and he passed away in October—not even a year.
I've only just finished contacting all of the entities/companies I needed to contact regarding changing accounts into my name, closing accounts, etc. Now I just have to wait for the next steps.
Having to do all of that, which I know was necessary, took time away that I needed for grieving.
It's as if an elephant is sitting on my heart, crushing it. I have lost loved ones before, but this is different. He is the only man who ever loved me just for me, not for who he wanted me to be (as in past relationships).
I know I'm divulging a lot, but I feel it's important to do so for a lot of reasons.
Having said all of that, I didn't make any resolutions this year. The only thing I want, I can't have.
The New Year's Resolutions have never worked for me, too. I always broke my resolutions or forgot them.
So I rather focus on my plans, dreams and goals.
And I always keep some Hungarian New Year's Day superstitions, because I want to be lucky throughout the year. For example, I don't do the laundry and don't sew, and I don't remove anything from my flat, including the trash on New Year's Day.
I don't eat chicken and fish food, I only eat something pork food on New Year's Day.
Instead of New Year's resolutions, I'm having a "theme" this year (which, even if it's already over a week since the new year started, I'm still zeroing in on).
I don’t generally make resolutions but this year I decided to choose a word for the year and my word this year will be “focus. “ I want to focus on the things that matter, and not give my attention to things that don’t or steal my peace. I want to put down my phone and focus on the moment. Focus on myself and my mental well-being.
Sending all my best to you and your family, Amanda
I like that reframe very much . Thank you !
Spring Equinox is the real new year! Thats the best time to sow the seeds that we want to plant for the year, and then harvest them in September.
I love calling in a word of the year and now I tend to do that during the lunar new year which is at the end of January this year - synching in with the season’s cycles and calling a word that is more of a feeling and invitation -and quite magical- rather than a resolution which feels like a “have to”
What is your word of the year ?
It’s “Golden”- to symbolize the sun, opportunities, abundance, luxury, ease and lineage :) and then whatever else Golden decides to reveal to me in 2025
I love some of the suggestions in these comments - the “word of the year” is dynamite! My own approach this year (I wrote a post about it) is that I don’t resolve to “cut out” things. Instead I want to build more positive behaviours (e.g. more gratitude, more fresh air activity) to make less room for negative approaches like doomscrolling, panicking or time-wasting. Trying to check some positive boxes every day without getting so prescriptive that I feel guilty if I don’t always make my numbers.
Agree that every day is a new day to start again. In my case I had started to rethink my career path and now that I'm on hiatus it's the perfect time to begin - just happens that it's January.
Totally agree - I don’t set New Year’s resolution’s anymore x
What a relief !
Agree with you.
Resolutions can be made whenever we choose and if we choose.
My Life Resolution for just now is "Be More Positive".
This will improve my health and life with a boost ♡
I'm a little late with this. Happy New Year to all!
This was one of the worst holiday seasons I've ever experienced.
My husband passed away this past October 8 after a brief, difficult struggle with T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia, a rare and aggressive form of leukemia.
He was diagnosed in February and he passed away in October—not even a year.
I've only just finished contacting all of the entities/companies I needed to contact regarding changing accounts into my name, closing accounts, etc. Now I just have to wait for the next steps.
Having to do all of that, which I know was necessary, took time away that I needed for grieving.
It's as if an elephant is sitting on my heart, crushing it. I have lost loved ones before, but this is different. He is the only man who ever loved me just for me, not for who he wanted me to be (as in past relationships).
I know I'm divulging a lot, but I feel it's important to do so for a lot of reasons.
Having said all of that, I didn't make any resolutions this year. The only thing I want, I can't have.
Hello Amanda,
Happy New Year to you, too!
The New Year's Resolutions have never worked for me, too. I always broke my resolutions or forgot them.
So I rather focus on my plans, dreams and goals.
And I always keep some Hungarian New Year's Day superstitions, because I want to be lucky throughout the year. For example, I don't do the laundry and don't sew, and I don't remove anything from my flat, including the trash on New Year's Day.
I don't eat chicken and fish food, I only eat something pork food on New Year's Day.
Do you have any New Year's Day superstition?
Instead of New Year's resolutions, I'm having a "theme" this year (which, even if it's already over a week since the new year started, I'm still zeroing in on).