My One Word for 2014

My One Word for 2014 has been set.

I took the My One Word challenge in 2013.

It consisted of, “Life Unprocessed.”

These were the goals from last year I shared with you.

I thought about my “big new goals” for 2014.

I was going to unleash some grand new awesome here – tell you about things I want to do and accomplish in 2014. (Side note: I still am. I still will share these things and also help you create your own….just not today.)

But then it hit me….

Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken.

2013 was amazing! I grew personally, professional and spiritually in ways that have changed my life. And I healed in a massive way – in a way like I never have before.

So why fix it if it ain’t broken?

Too many times in life we search to find the next shiny object. We aren’t in the place with bright green grass, so we convince ourselves that the grass is greener somewhere else. And so we make absurd goals and try to chase fast people, places, lifestyles and things and in return we find ourselves frustrated, discouraged and regressed from the place where we began. <– Sound like the common New Year’s Resolution?

I used to be “fad”-istic.

Now I just want to be realistic.

My life is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s an uphill climb, not a spiraling out-of-control downfall.

What all of this means is, simply,