DOER
I’ve been hearing a lot about people picking a “word of the year” for 2019, something for them to focus on, to aspire to. Some of the people I follow have picked the words ‘fun,’ ‘believe,’ and ‘selfcare.’ All great words. It got me thinking, what would be my word?
I thought about it for a few days and I thought about a lot of ways I want my year to look, but I just couldn’t find a word that felt right.
Then it came to me when I wasn’t even looking for it. It was 4 a.m. and I had just finished nursing my 10 month old back to sleep. I don’t even remember what I was thinking about, but it came to me. DOER. DOER is going to be my word for 2019.
DOER. Is that even a word? I had to look it up. Yes! It is! Dictionary.com defines the word doer as “a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency. A person characterized by action, as distinguished from one given to contemplation.”
I thought about other words that could be a synonym for DOER and came up with FEARLESS. Fearless is a great word. Then I realized, I am not going to be fearless. But I do want to feel the fear and do it anyway. So I am going to stick with the word DOER as my word of the year.
I am a procrastinator. I put things off and then it stresses me out. I dream of things I want to do, and then I talk myself out of them, tell myself I am not good enough. That’s why it took me over two years to start this blog.
Carlos once said to me that I’m a dreamer and he is a doer and that’s why we work well together and push each other to be better. And it’s true. He’s pushed me so many times to do the things I dreamed of doing but was scared to follow through. That is one of the reasons why I started this blog. I wanted something to hold myself accountable for following through with my dreams, to be true to myself and to create the life I want to live.
What is your word for 2019?