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Progressing Toward Progress
Acknowledging We are Perfectly Imperfect in 2023
Connection. Embrace. Growth. Resilience. Wonder. Awareness.
These were some of the words we tossed out last year (or was it just a day ago), as my husband and I talked about my One Word anchor for 2023. It’s an activity that I’ve undertaken every December for several years, always with a slightly different twist.
This year, my plan is to have one anchor word, the word through whose lens I will live my life. I say “my plan” with hope and intention — and also the keen awareness of so many lessons learned the past three years. 2020 — the year of disbelief, where life as almost all of us knew it was forever upended. 2021 — a year of redefining what matters, exploring and discovering what it really means to pivot and move in a different direction. And 2022 — a year that had many highs and lows of the world’s wildest roller coaster ride. And that brings us to today — January of 2023.
My chosen word (or did it choose me?) for 2023 will be PROGRESS. I especially like that I can use it as both a noun PROgress and as a verb proGRESS. Each is grounded in the same eight letters; yet one is action being taken while the other is a status, like a snapshot. I really like them both and plan to use them as my anchors.
As humans, I admit that we are all…
