Hi hi! So yes, I kind of planned this to be posted a bit earlier, but eh. I didn’t get around to sitting down to write it until now. So last year my word of the year was upgrade, and overall I think that it was a decent choice. For this year, I have been thinking a lot about what word to choose, and decided to go with Intentional. Here’s why.

I can trend towards being unintentional super fast. I just go about my business and do what needs to be done for a baseline, but start ignoring the extra stuff. So for example, going to work and doing my job is my baseline. But then when it comes to the extra (reaching out to people myself, extra reading and learning, putting myself out there in leader-y situations) I can sometimes forget about it. I have to be intentional about remembering to put the extra effort in for that extra nip.

At home it’s the same thing. I can baseline pretty well, but I’m not very intentional about doing what I would consider the “extras” all the time. In my opinion that is not a bad thing either; I can’t be on 100% of the time and doing all the things because I’d get so burned out. However, I want to be intentional about thinking about what extra things actually need to be addressed and then following through with them.

There you go, my word of the year. Do you come up with a word of the year? I think that it’s a bit easier to stick with rather than a resolution, but what do you think?

More next time! I’m thinking of discussing yaml files a bit. They’re something I’ve been looking into more recently and it helps me to wrap my head around something if I have to write about it.

-Rachel