The Power of One Single Word
What do you think about this concept? “What you think about, you bring about.”
What if you could set in place an intentional and focused effort to think about one single word for the next year that would shape your reality?
Courage. Faith. Strength. Hope. Adventure. Happiness. Calm. Grateful. Focus.
This one word would be like an anchor thought. When you go to bed at night, you’d think about this word. When you rise in the morning you’d think about this word. When you’re stuck in traffic and someone cuts you off, you’d think about this word. When you’re happy, sad, or mad…you’d think about this word.
At times your word would perfectly describe your circumstances. Other times, this word would seem to be completely unattainable. Either way, you choose to draw on the strength and purpose of the word to guide your steps.
Awesomely enough, three guys actually wrote a book about the idea of choosing One Word for the year to define, anchor, and be “the driving force” in your life.
People all over the world have tried this concept out and have benefited from focusing on a single word for a single year. Lives have been transformed!
Dan Britton, Jimmy Page, and Jon Gordon tell us in their book, “One Word creates clarity, power, passion and life-change. The simple power of One Word is that it impacts all six dimensions of your life – mental, physical, emotional, relational, spiritual, and financial.”
Whether you’re a goal-setter, a New Year’s resolution-er, or none of the above…setting your thoughts on one word for the year cannot be a bad thing.
Friends, I think it’s clear what we ought to do here. Let’s pick a word and see what happens!
My word for 2016 is: Joy.
I vow to run my circumstances through my JOY lens in 2016.
If you decide to choose a word, too, will you please share your word with me (really, with us…others reading the comments may find inspiration for their word through your word)?
Here’s to experiencing focus, clarity, and purpose with ONE WORD for 2016!
Have great day!
JOYfully,
Jill xx
Let’s help others to realize the gift of choosing ONE WORD….pass this post along.
In 2016, I am going to Embrace- Intentional-Joy !
Thanks for the encouragement!
Wonderful, Tammy! I love that you are being intentional with it! Thank you for sharing!
Hi, Tammy. We’re closing in on a year since we decided on our words. You chose “Intentional-Joy” as yours. Curious, did you stick with this as your word? If so, were you able to keep it as a focus for your year? If not, what do you think your stumbling blocks were? I’d love to hear your thoughts as I’m going to be doing another post on this topic soon.
Jill – I don’t know if you’ve seen it or not, but there’s a facebook quiz going around that gives you a word for 2016 based on your name. Mine came up as ‘friendship’, which isn’t a bad thing, but somehow seems a bit inauthentic to rely on a random word generator for this. Did the authors of the book you reference here have any ideas about how to find your word?
Thanks,
Jo
Hey, Jo! I have seen that going around and don’t put much stock in it. It’s fun to do, but finding your word is a process of looking within and to God. The authors of My One Word suggest this three step process:
I look forward to hearing what you come up with!