#one-word theme

This will be the last episode of the year, and we are closing out with a great one! Kerri Nelson is back, and we have an incredible conversation about our one-word themes of the year. We honor veteran Abraham Cruz. Then Kerri turns the tables on me with her journalistic skills as she interviews me about my military background, and then we get some behind-the-scenes view of Kerri’s experience as a…

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Focus.

Gretchen Rubin, the author of The Happiness Project, has one-word themes every year.  It's meant to guide you, in a big-picture kind of way, through the year.  It's been a few years since I've read her book, but tonight, I browsed her website and was reminded of the wonderful lessons I had learned when I read her book.  Of course, the many lessons learned have either been forgotten or were never put into practice.  That's okay though, I probably wasn't ready to commit to a project anyway.  So I thought, maybe I will start small and have a one-word theme for this year.

I want to practice focus this year.  For too long I've been distracted and wandered, which is not entirely bad, but it meant that I tip-toed around real issues that I should be dealing with and avoided thinking about things that mattered in my life.  There has always been a hurricane of scattered thoughts in my head and too many desires/ambitions that drive me restless.  I want to freeze all this and start organizing everything into something comprehendible to provide the clarity I need.  

Somewhere on the web I remember reading a headline that said "the power of doing one thing at a time".  I didn't click into the article, just the title alone struck a chord with me already.  Since the art of multi-tasking has become second nature to our generation, I find it hard to recall when I actually just did ONE thing at a time.  When I'm on the computer, I usually have music on and have at least 5 tabs open in my browser, all actively used.  When I'm eating, I'm also either watching TV or reading something.  When I reading, I check my phone every ~15 minutes and DJ my music as need be.  When I'm writing, I switch back and forth between my writing and other websites/eat snacks/check my phone… etc. You get the idea. The only time I really just do one thing is probably when I go to sleep.  The point is, I want to focus on doing one thing at a time, and do it well.  On a bigger scale, I want to focus on different pillars of my life individually and giving them my undivided attention.  I want to focus on my goals.  I want to focus on learning how to prioritize.  I want to focus on being in the present/live in the moment.  I want to focus on the awareness of my thoughts, my surroundings, and the people around me.

Paradoxically, I think practicing focus will actually allow me to accomplish more things than multi-tasking before.  I guess time will tell.

What is your one-word?

xoxo