Tag: word of the year

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2024 Intentions and my word of the year

February 2, 2024
A month into the new year, and with the celebrations of Imbolc, I can feel myself coming alive again. The lengthening days and the early signs of spring are wakening me from my winter hibernation. I can feel the stirrings of hope building at a new year ahead, all the adventures and fun I can...

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BLOG

Welcoming in 2022 and my guiding word

January 7, 2022
Happy New Year! I’m feeling so grateful to be welcoming in another New Year. Over the chaos of our Yule time celebrations, I managed to carve out a little time for myself to say goodbye to 2021, and to set some intentions for the coming year. Last year, personally, was a good one. There were...

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BLOG, INSPIRATION

2021 – a guiding word

January 8, 2021
I have been picking a guiding word for the year for the last decade or so. Last year’s word was G R O W – I just re-read what I wrote, and how apt it was…. This year is time to see the growth come through at long last. The year that I grow into...

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ADVICE, BLOG, INSPIRATION

A guiding word for 2020

January 10, 2020
Apart from last year, I’ve been choosing a guiding word each New Year for the last decade. It helps me to focus on the year ahead as a whole, it is more flexible than resolutions/goals and is all-encompassing. 2018’s word was S U R R E N D E R and it was perfectly apt....

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INSPIRATION

Choosing a guiding word for 2018

January 5, 2018
“Where you invest your love, you invest your life.”  I have chosen a soul word to focus on each year for several years now- I think this is the eighth year in a row that I’ve picked one. A word to use as a mantra for the coming year. Gentler than resolutions, a word can...

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ADVICE

To begin, begin

January 2, 2017
{be.gin} perform or undergo the first part of (an action or activity) It’s been a few years since I intentionally chose a guiding word for the year. Somewhere amongst the last two years, it fell by the wayside – I think because I was so busy pretending that everything was OK that trying to live...

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