Sunshine.
That is my “adopted” word for 2010.
I’ve never picked a word for the year, but I really liked the idea. Thanks Ali Edwards! Visit Ali Edwards’ blog to read about her word for 2010, and about taking action with your word (bottom of her post).
As I pondered what word to choose for my focus, I really wanted something that imbued optimism and moving forward in a positive direction — moving forward, moving upward. And I’ve really been drawn to the color yellow recently. Usually, I’m drawn to red colors — ripe strawberries, crimson towels, red markers. But the last few days, yellow has just been POPPING out at me.
I had almost decided on POSITIVE to be my word, but just really didn’t like the sound of it. (Silly, I know, but ‘positive’ wasn’t sending positive vibes, lol.) So I started searching through a thesaurus, first under the word positive, then under the word optimism, and for some reason the word sunshine wandered into my thoughts. It wasn’t one of the synonyms listed for optimism, but it was pulsing in my brain like a neon light.
Sunshine. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, sunshine brings the following words to my mind: cheerfulness, optimism, confidence, positivism, hope, and happiness. Sunshine is warm and bright and joyful. It’s like a hug from heaven. And I think that’s what I need right now — an embrace from above, some hope and optimism, some confidence, and definitely some cheerfulness. 2008 was dark. 2009 was chaotic. I want 2010 to be full of sunshine.
So now that I have my focus — SUNSHINE — how do I incorporate that word into my life? Well, first, I’m going to make sure I go outside EVERY SINGLE DAY and bask in the sunshine (or lack thereof, if the sun is not shining, lol). And, since I’m a digital scrapbooker, I have a scrapbook layout bouncing around in my mind. Maybe I’ll find time today to scrap about my word — then maybe I’ll print that layout and post it by my computer to remind myself. But until I scrap and print that layout, I’m going to stick my word to my computer and to my bathroom mirror. Because I NEED visual reminders.
And I think I’ll take a few moments to think about the actions I want to take to make my word meaningful, to help it become the focus of my 2010. 
Do you have a word for 2010? What is it? What action are you going to take with it?
What a wonderful word for the year. Still working on focusing on one word although I finally was able to come up with a focused list of 10 wishes, hopes and dreams for the new year
for this year, i would like to focus on love =)
I’m stuck on my life word right now, which is “enough.”
Yikes. Each time I’ve tried to think about what I want this year, I think ‘better’…so this year, I want to be a better person….I want to prioritize better…I want things to be better for our country and planet. So this year, my word is ‘better’.
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