{"id":516,"date":"2008-12-31T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T23:31:01","slug":"whats-in-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog2007.sheba-kitty-productions.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I reflect over the past year and make my goals for the next year, I have discovered a few people summing up their year in a single word. This seems like such a great way to focus on my goals, to have one over-arching word of significance to guide my actions. I always include text into my artwork already, but to have a given word to almost become a signature for the year sounds so freeing and exciting.<\/p>\n

“A single word can be a powerful thing. It can be the ripple in the pond that changes everything.”<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many of my online artist friends have been declaring their words. Dale Anne selected Explore<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for her word, so I decided to explore<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 more about choosing a word for myself. Christine Kane describes the process in “Resolution Revolution<\/a>“. In fact, I remember reading this post last year, and I looked into some words<\/a>, but for whatever reason I didn’t pick a word. (Although I did set some art goals<\/a>.) Now she has a month of posts about people that selected a word and had a year of success focused on that word. It is exciting to read about people that picked their words from deep emotional places like transition<\/a>, or ones that pick their word with humor, like chicken<\/a>. Courage<\/a>seems to be a popular word, and in this world, it seems we all need a little courage<\/a> just to get through the day. Another blogger, Ali, not only has a list of word suggestions<\/a>, she also has a little contest\/giveaway<\/a> for those setting words as a focus.<\/p>\n

So far I am looking at the following words:<\/p>\n

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