Recognize, Remember, Real’ify – my Words of the Year for 2016. Yaknow, the Words to inspire and clarify your year…
Recognizing is the first step – ferret out what’s either getting in your way or inspiring you to greater accomplishments (whatever they look like). Sometimes the A-hah! is for an incredibly tiny bit of something that you “hadn’t seen from this angle before” – Sometimes it’s for something so huge that you simply thought the elephant was a wall…
Remembering is next – there’s even a credible argument for Remembering being *even more important* than Recognizing, because if an A-hah! slides off your brain like it’s a teflon pan, the solution gets lost (again). You will find it again sooner or later, but, still…
The final step is to Real’ify your Recognizitions. (Yeah, I just made that up, or maybe Havi did). In case you haven’t guessed what that means, it’s to make your Recognition into something Real in your life. Take the baby steps to change that old ‘thinking habit’ into a new ‘doing habit’.
These aren’t easy words, but they are guiding my thinking (and feeling) this week, and for the next couple of months. How ’bout you?
March 2, 2016 at 2:40 pm
I love your trio and the made up word is cool. Also – I find this refreshing because it is still so early in the year and we should be still thinking of our words for the year and goals and all that – so many people only do this early January! Anyhow – my word this year is “fresh” because it is time for new things after many years of working on a few things and well – new era staring’ last year was finish and the year before was a bad word that began with f so I cannot say it – lol – jk- but underneath my word fresh – I will add yours cool R words because they are so good! Glad I read this today and best wishes this coming year!
March 2, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Definitely too early in the year to let our January plans slip away!
Your “Fresh” feels perfect for 2016, too, because – well I can’t pin it down – but something’s different-good this year. 🙂
March 3, 2016 at 5:11 pm
Hear hear!!! 👍🏼❤️
March 2, 2016 at 6:04 pm
So good to see your post pop in in my WordPress Reader!
Baby steps are always the safest way. Hope the rest of 2016 is good for you, Karen.
March 3, 2016 at 11:58 am
❤ Hooray! Happy to hear that I haven't let this slide too long for the WP police!
The rest of 2016 will be good, CM, beause I have these first 2 months to counterblance my ‘memories’ of past sucky years! 😉
March 3, 2016 at 4:56 am
Oh yes, baby steps are definitely good! I LOVE made up words…. I seem to do it all the time! I certainly seem to be having problems with things ‘sticking’ at the moment…maybe it’s menopause. All these words make perfect sense to me!
March 3, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Hi, Linda! Thanks for stopping by, AND for commenting.
I’ve found that ideas may not ‘stick’ for a couple of reasons – They’re ‘too big’; or they don’t quite ‘make sense’ given what else you believe/think you know; or maybe, you just don’t give a damn! 🙂