I LOVE Chris Brogan's take on this: 3 words that will serve "as a lighthouse for my actions and efforts." So I figured I'd take a stab at it. Here are my 3 words for 2011:
GROWTH. HEALTH. STORYTELLING.
GROWTH - The last 3 years of my life can be defined as "transitional" growth (March 2008 - November 2010 = Divorce). Transitional growth is hard to measure because it tends to be unstable, chaotic and stressful. Transitional growth is like moving a rose bush from the backyard to the front yard. You hope it'll eventually grow back and you do your best to protect the roots but there's no guarantees and it's incredibly risky. Something that's easier to measure (day to day, week to week, month to month, etc.) is "long term" growth. One of my goals in 2011 is to LEVERAGE the successes of 2010 into bigger/better successes in 2011 and beyond (this is not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination). I don't know about you, but I'm really tired of transitional growth. I need/deserve/want some long-term growth and I believe I'll find it in 2011.
HEALTH - This usually means losing weight. Diets. Eating better. Working out. Blah blah blah. I just mean overall health: physically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally. BALANCE is the keyword here. I don't want to join a gym, I just want to get off my ass a little more frequently in 2011. Sweat more. Eat better. That's about it.
STORYTELLING - 2011 will be the year I get back to what I LOVE doing: storytelling. That'll be reading, writing, more quiet time, etc. I don't want to be BUSY in 2011. I want to be PRODUCTIVE. I want to be efficient. Focused. I want to FINISH projects I start. I want to say NO to more people and YES to those I believe in and want to work with/for.
I'm ready. Let's do this.
