Grow With Focus

Before the previous year ended, I had already finished my list of goals for the coming year, tucked away safely and kept for my eyes only. At the beginning of the year, I was tempted to "force" myself to churn out my own "One Word", which will serve as my guide for the rest of 2013. I didn't. One day, it just came to me. Naturally. Within a few hours, another one slipped into my brain. Again, naturally. I wanted to choose just one. For simplicity. I even thought Simplify was the word for me. But no, it didn't feel right. So I just wrote down both words in my planner and left them to brew on their own. Until tonight...

My Two Words for 2013 and Beyond...

GROW & FOCUS

This year, I will Grow With Focus.

Weeks after they both came to me, I realized that there is a reason why I couldn't bear to choose just one of them. Now I know. 

This year, I want to grow, starting with listing down as many things, skills, talents that I would want to learn. I've been out of school's prison bars for almost seven years now, I should have been free to study and learn whatever I fancy, but I still have my fears. And no, they're not helping me in any way. Not at all. 

This year, I want to focus. Yeah, there are a lot of projects I want to undertake. But then again, on top of "trying" there must be a determination to "finish" and of course, most importantly, ENJOY the process. I cannot simply aim to grow without direction, without a purpose, without focus. Doing so will make me no better than a stray, unwanted weed... Easy to uproot by anyone, anytime. I cannot allow that to happen. And for this to work, I need to have a plan. And surely, there will be costs.

Nevertheless, I am ready. 

I grew up during the last few months of the previous year. A lot. I guess it started from there. What can I say, every cloud, no matter how dark, indeed has a silver lining... Or in my case, rainbow-candy-colored... 

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