There’s been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about choosing a word for 2015.
It’s all part of the Unravelling the Year workbook by Susannah Conway – where she encourages us to set intentions instead of impossible-to-live-up-to resolutions.
This seems like a good alternative – a word to live by for the coming year, to hopefully help me be healthier and happier. If you don’t believe in resolutions, I thoroughly recommend giving this a try.
And after a lot of thought the word I’ve chosen for 2015 is Acceptance.
That’s not to say there aren’t things I want to change. I do. I’m not accepting the status quo.
But I think struggling against things which are out of my control have caused me too much heartache over the last few years. Failing to accept how my own actions are contributing to some of my unhappiness has made things worse.
So 2015 is the year I’m going to focus on acceptance.
Accepting that some relationships are never going to be what I want them to be – no matter how hard I try.
Accepting that only by changing my attitude and approach to certain things can I change a situation.
Accepting that I’m the person who can make the changes I need in my life – nobody else can do this for me.
Accepting that not everyone will see life the way I do.
Accepting that failure is inevitable at times. But giving up is a choice.
I’m sure you get the gist.
Shedding tears about why things are the way they are – and why people are the way they are – has got me nowhere. I take a lot of situations personally, feeling I’m to blame for how other people act – instead of wondering if I truly deserve the way I’m treated. Depression does that to you.
Some things, I’m sure, are going to be harder to accept than others.
But I’m going to work at making myself happier in 2015. There’s a lot I want to achieve, quite a few things I’m looking forward to and improvements I want to make.
And I’ll try making that journey while accepting the things I can’t change, working on what I can, and accepting my own limitations as well as those of others.
What about you? Do you make resolutions?
If you needed a word to live by in 2015, what would you choose?
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