It had been months, 7 months in fact, since I posted about this project.
Overall this year has been more ‘succesful’ than previous years both in terms of taking part with the monthly prompts for the class and feeling like I have stepped a tiny fraction closer to what my ‘whole’ means.
At the start of the year there was a lot of thinking about what the word means to us. I’ve just re-read my post from January and still believe that the word you select doesn’t matter 100%. What matters is your willingness to keep the word with you throughout the year, to walk with it as Ali says, to invite it into your life and develop a relationship with it.
I have done that more this year than before. And that is great.
Here is April’s prompt.
Something that came directly from working on that months prompt is a habit of drinking water every morning before I take Buddy out for a walk. I’ve also continued to enjoy a herb tea instead of coffee at least once a day at work. And amazingly I have been walking 10 thousand steps a day (more on that milestone to come.)
One of my favourite monthly prompts was May when I felt like I really grasped the idea of my word on a less literal level.
The idea was to use photography as a ‘lens’ to see your word in your life at that point in time.
Oh and that picture of me with my eyes closed has to be one of my most favourite selfies! Just something about it.
July saw us creating manifesto/encouragement cards.
I struggled a little that month and felt like I was repeating myself but I still enjoyed the creative side and getting something in my album.
And that is where I am up to. Looking forward to finishing August and getting into September.
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One Little Word® is an idea developed by Ali Edwards read about it over here.
And read other posts about my words here.
Good word – I reflect back on the year I participated in Ali’s One Little Word workshop. I did not have a word for this year, at least not one that stuck & I think that needs corrected even though there is only 4 months left of the year …
Go for it Mary-Lou 4 months is a good amount of time to walk with a word!