A few years ago I heard about choosing a word for the year. I tried to Google the origin of a word for the year, there is so much information, blogs, websites, books, ways to choose your word, even a word of the year generator. Wow! One little word, words of the year, my word; whatever you want to call it the idea is pretty much the same. It’s a word you incorporate into every aspect of life, family, friends, health, work. It’s how you think about everything.

One of my words for 2019 was intentional. I didn’t do a good job of being intentional at all last year. 2019 was a very busy year and I fell back into old comfortable (not good) habits. Eating well, exercising and de-cluttering are just some of the areas that my lack of intentionality shows.

I had a hard time choosing a word this year. I kept thinking consistant. This is the definition I found “the achievement of a level of performance that does not vary greatly in quality over time”. But that didn’t quite capture what I wanted. Maybe dependable or reliable? Well, not exactly.

Deliberate. I think this definition sums up how I want to approach 2020 “done consciously and intentionally“.  Consciously is defined “in a way that is directly perceptible to and under the control of the person concerned“. Adding consciously to last years word embodies what I want for 2020.

One of the old habits I fell into was failing to plan. “Winging it” may work for some people but not for me. It leaves me feeling frustrated and rushed which leads to irritability. Not a good combination.

The other comfort habit is telling myself I don’t have time. I do have time but I don’t always make the best choices in how I spend my time. I have time to play the bubble expode game on my phone, while telling myself I need to “make time” to read. I don’t need to make time I need to be deliberate in how I spend the time I have.