Word Jumble

I'm not one for making big New Year's Resolutions. (I prefer making Goals. Yes, there's a difference...if only in my mind.) But I am one for retrospect, for learning what we can from where we've been. AND for looking forward in anticipation to what lies ahead, as any good wayfarer should. So, I did a little mental exercise over the weekend. (I found the workbook here.) Good stuff.

One of the questions was "If you lived and breathed your word every day in 2012, what would be different for you?" I tried and tried but I just wasn't feeling "Spiral" as my word of the year. I couldn't figure out how to live it and breathe it Every Day.

So, I modified my word for 2012.

Spiral will still be a theme. I still very much want to embrace the spiral journeys in my life. But as far as a grounding touchstone throughout the year, it just didn't hold water to what I really want to be about in 2012.

This year I want to "Aspire." To rouse and awaken. To reach out. On purpose. To mean to do things and then to actually follow through. And in order to do that I need real tangible goals, which are already beginning to take form. They are similar goals as in the past, but (and here comes the spiral theme) they've become clearer and more defined.

I can live and breathe "aspire" every day. Sure the newness and excitement will wane in a few weeks. But then I will come back to this word and remember. Then when it fades again, I will remember again. Remember to not waste time or thoughts or ideas. Remember to think of what glories I may be missing out on in the self-indulgence of laziness, junk food, and bad TV.

I have not been living at my best lately, and lingering there is doing me no favors.
"I want to scale the utmost height,
And catch a gleam of glory bright
But still I'll pray, till Heaven I've found,
Lord, lead me on to higher ground."