I start the year 2024 with the word EMBRACE.
Over the course of the past five years or so, I have taken part in a movement among the educational community (and the community writ large, I am certain) to select a word around which to center the upcoming year. I have engaged in this practice and found it grounding, especially as a year begins. As I have commented in previous posts, there is something about beginnings – the starts of years and months and weeks – that really clicks with my internal operating system. If I start something well and begin it at the right time, it becomes a part of my makeup, mindset and motion.
Therefore, I start the year 2024 with the word EMBRACE.
I intend to embrace the year,
embrace challenge and change,
embrace expectations,
embrace the unknown,
embrace gratitude,
embrace whatever is to come, fully and without reservation.
2024 – Embrace.