So…yeah. I did exactly two months of my One Little Word project this year and then it all fell apart. I don’t really remember what was going on in March, but I think I was just sewing like crazy and didn’t complete that month’s prompt and it snowballed from there. Each month I was reminded on the first day when the email reminder landed in my inbox and then — poof! — it was gone again.
Is it ironic that the year I chose “intention” for my word was also the year I failed at the one little word project?
Quite possibly, yes.
But maybe, no?
After missing a month or two, I told myself that I’d catch up soon. After another month or two, I thought that maybe it’d be best to just do it if or when I felt like it. And after another month or two, I simply stopped berating myself for not keeping up with something that clearly wasn’t high on my list this year.
Maybe I can make a pretty good argument, then, that I treated this year with a bit of intention after all.
p.s. This week I got the email about signing up for OLW 2018 and…I’m on the fence. (That is obvious, I suppose.) Right now I’m feeling the need to both scale back and tighten the focus where my creative pursuits are concerned, and OLW is something in that category. If I come up with a good word that feels motivating, maybe I’ll go for it. If not…well, that’d be a good reason to let it go.
p.p.s. I’m doing a 31 day blog writing challenge!