In a word: strength

In the blogging world especially everyone is picking a word of the year. So, in an effort to be trendy, I’m picking one too. Just kidding … I really like the concept, the idea that I can find a word to encompass where I am in my life and where I want to be over the next 12 months.

After mulling over some great words like grow, dream and peace, I have settled on my word for 2013: strength. For me this word captured essentially all the areas of my life and works for the dreams I have in the coming year.

Here’s how I’ll be channeling the word “strength:”

• Professionally, I’ll continue to grow and strengthen my business. HAF Creative had a terrific 2012, and I’m confident it will only grow stronger this year as I develop more client relationships, take on new projects and assignments and strengthen my place in life as a business owner and entrepreneur.
• Personally, I’ll keep my marriage solid. This summer, Clint and I celebrate 13 years together and there are things we’ll continue to do to keep our marriage strong (hoping one of those includes a trip to the mountains this fall just the two of us). As a mother, I need to not only be strong for my daughter but also to raise a strong daughter. I firmly believe in helping your child – especially a girl – grasp the concept early in life that she can be and do anything she wants.
• Spiritually, I felt my faith and walk with God strengthen and develop last year. But I’m nowhere near perfect and will work to make stronger my relationship with God so that it isn’t rocked by problems or the challenges life throws my way.
• Physically, I long to become stronger. Since I started CrossFit two and half years ago, I have transformed my body into something more solid and less squishy. But I need to be stronger. I want to get 100 pounds over my head, squat with more than 65 pounds and do 10 pull-ups at a time (I’m at four or five!).

I felt as if last year I finally recovered from some significant challenges that started in 2008. It may have taken four years, but I made it to a place where I felt good about my life again. That comes from not only being strong in all the areas outlined above but also believing in that strength and where it can take you. So, look out, 2013, because I’m coming on strong!