One Little Word : 2010 Word List

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I spent a couple hours yesterday going back through all the comments listing your one little words and the reasons/thoughts behind them. It's always so cool to see all these words listed together. I am working on a layout for my word this year and hope to share it next week.


Below, the words. If I accidentally missed yours please add a comment below and I will add it to the list (I am updating throughout the day). These words are beautiful and powerful and subtle and really can make a difference in your life. Cheers to 2010.


Abide


Abundance


Acceptance


Accomplish


Achieve


Act


Action

Active

Adore

Adventure


Alive


Angels


Appreciate


Attend


Authentic


Authenticity


Awaken


Aware


Awareness


Balance


Be


Beauty

Become


Begin


Believe

Beloved


Best


Better


Blessed


Blessings

Bliss


Blossom


Brave


Breathe


Brighten


Bring (It)

Build


Calm


Can


Capture


Celebrate


Challenge


Change


Charity


Cherish

Childhood


Childlike


Choice


Choose


Clarity


Clean

Comfortable


Commit


Commitment


Compassion


Complete


Completion

Composure


Confidence


Connect


Connection


Consistency


Consistent


Contentment


Control


Courage


Create


Dance

Decrease


Dedication


Deliberate


Delight

Details


Determination


Determined


Diligence


Discipline


Discover


Discovery


Do


Document

Domesticity

Downsize


Dream

Ease

Educate


Effort


Embark


Embrace


Encourage


Endeavor


Energy


Engage

Enjoy


Enlightenment


Enough

Equipped


Essential


Everyday


Excellence


Expand


Experience


Explore


Faith


Family


Fearless


Fearlessness

Find


Finished


Fire


Fit

Flexible


Flourish


Flow


Flower

Fly


Focus

Follow


Follow-Through


Forgive


Forgiveness


Forward


Free


Freedom


Fresh


Friendship


Fulfill

Fun

Future


Gajillion


Gather


Give


Glee

Go


Grace


Graceful Productivity


Gracious


Grateful


Gratitude


Grow


Growth


Habit


Handmade


Happiness


Harmony

Healing


Health


Healthy

Heart


Him


Home


Hope


Hopeful


Horizon


Humble


Humility


Illuminate


Imagine

Important


Improve

In


Indeed


Inspiration

Integrity


Intention


Intentional


Intentionality

Invest


Invigorate


Invite


Involved


Jesus


Journal


Journey


Joy


Joyful

Just Do It


Kindness

Laughter

Lead


Leap


Learn


Less


Letting Go

Lighter


Listen


Live

Look


Lose & Replace


Love


Loved

Lucky


Magic


Make

Manage


Marisa

Mastery


Maturity


Me


Mend


M.I.L.K.

Mindful


Mission

Model


Moment


Mommy


More


Move


Move Forward


Near

Neat


Nest


New

No Excuses


Now


Nurture

Observe


Open


Optimism


Order


Organization


Organize

Otheres


Overcome


Passion


Passion(ate)


Patience


Pause


Peace


Persevere


Persist


Persistent


Photography


Place


Play


Ponder


Positive


Positivity


Possibilities


Possibility


Potential

Practice


Pray

Precious


Prepare


Present

Preserve


Prioritize

Proactive


Productivity


Progress


Promise


Pull

Purge


Purpose

Quality


Quiet


Re-direct


Reach


Real


Really


Reclamation

Reconciliation

Reconnect

Record


Recreate

Rediscover


Reduce


Refine


Regain Control

Relationships


Relax


Relaxation


Release


Relish


Remember


Renew


Resilience

Resolve


Resource

Rest


Restoration



Restore


Rethink


Rhythm


Risk


Routines

Sail

Satisfaction


Save


Savor

Seek


Self

Self-Esteem


Serenity


Serve


Service


Share

Shed

Shelter


Shine


Shoot


Silence


Simplify


Slow


Smile


Sooner

Space


Spirit


Stability


Start

Steadfast


Steer


Story

Streamlined


Strength


Stretch

Strive


Stronger

Student


Study


Success

Sunshine


Surrender


Survive


Sustain

Tell


Thankful


Think


Thoughtful


Thrive


Time


Today


Today Matters


Together

Tone


Tranquility


Transform


Transformation

Transition


Treasure


Trust


Truth


Unclutter

Unfold


Unity


Vision


Vitality


Wellness


Whisper


Wholehearted


Wholeness


Will

Wisdom

Wonder

Words


Worth


Write


Dottedline


One of the big things I noticed as I read back through all the words
yesterday is that most people want to make some sort of change in their
lives such as a subtraction or an addition. You might be interested in checking out Leo Batuba's (Zen Habits) new blog about habits
called 6 Changes.

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  1. Yulia says…
    01/06/2010

    What a wonderful and powerful image! My word for 2010 is lighter. Lighter physically and lighter in attitude and thoughts. That is how I want to be.

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  2. Trina says…
    01/06/2010

    Decrease is my word for 2010. There are many things that I want to decrease this year and at the top of the list is decreasing the time between promptings and doings.

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  3. Laura McCollough says…
    01/06/2010

    So AMAZING to see all the words together! Sorry I didn't put my word on your blog, but blogged about it on mine... (and gave you credit :) My word for this year is
    OTHERS.

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  4. Stephanie Rosas says…
    01/06/2010

    A,
    this is just a short note to say that it KILLS me how creative and inspiring you are! I just had to say it, eventhough I'm sure you hear it all the time! You just seem like you have it so together, and everything you make is gorgeous! I strive to be creative everyday, and I encourage my 6 yr old son to create everday also. We have a 'SCRAFT' room (his word) and we spend most of our time together in there. He has total freedom, and I mean paint, glitter, glue...anything that won't hurt him, because I want him to feel the freedom of expressing yourself. It is my dream to be able to do this full time, and maybe....just maybe someday it will happen. Me and my sister are both nurses, but we have a secret dream to open a little craft shop some day. We live in a small town in Arkansas, with nothing of the sort anywhere close.
    My son, Nathan, makes the cutest things, and he loves to share the things he makes with others. We have a budget and have to be creative and buy many of our supplies at walmart, but that's ok with us! I love going to craft stores, but always end up spending way too much, then feeling guilty bc I know it's money I could be spending on my lil guy. My husband supports my hobby (passion), but does not really understand it.
    The point of this letter is to say Thank You, for inspring, and making me believe that I can do it, too. I love your style, I love your cute lil family, and love you too for being someone to look up to. I will enjoy your work as long as you continue to share! You're amazing!! Thanks again!

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  5. Carla Callahan says…
    01/06/2010

    I didn't see my word on the list... it is Resolve.

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  6. kaitlin says…
    01/06/2010

    Very cool and inspiring!
    My word is RECORD. I have really fallen away this year in getting everything recorded in terms of scrapbooking. So my plan is to get back on track with documenting the everyday and also memories. It is an important year with a new addition and so many things happening with our family.

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  7. Barbara P says…
    01/06/2010

    Amazing! I love seeing my word in the mix, it gives it even more importance! Thanks for doing this.

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  8. Melissa says…
    01/06/2010

    My word is "release." To release and let go all the things which no longer serves me. To purge negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions. I'm a young cancer survivor. I don't want to live in fear and need to release fear, anger and uncertainty surrounding my diagnosis. To remind myself daily that I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing. Fully knowing that all is well in my world.

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  9. carol says…
    01/06/2010

    Hi ali,
    This is not about your post here, although I did pick my word(s) for the year. Sometime back you listed acouple of onling system backups for the computer could you please repost that of maybe send it to me via email?? I am looking for just that service. Thank you
    Carol Marsh
    Coeur d'Alene, ID
    marshnmt@msn.com

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  10. Carol says…
    01/06/2010

    I didn't see my word...RELATIONSHIPS. I love the wordle. I use it in my classroom and find it is a great way to motivate my kids. I may actually have them choose a word. Wow...that would be great! Thanks for the wonderful idea!

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  11. Sylvia says…
    01/06/2010

    OH, so many comments again. well, i would have thought somebody chose my word as well, but it seems not. so here is mine: MINDFUL.

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  12. HeatherC says…
    01/06/2010

    Forgot to add mine the other day --- my word is SPRIRT. I am involved with a retreat team at my church and it just sort of came to me --- but I was also thinking of ways to care for and feed my spirit, the spirit of others as well as the spirit of my actions.

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  13. inannasstar says…
    01/06/2010

    My word is "COMFORTABLE"

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  14. Ali Edwards says…
    01/06/2010

    Mozy is the one I was testing out - had to stop it because I had some other issues with my computer. Need to try it again. A lot of people also recommended Carbonite.

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  15. Ali Edwards says…
    01/06/2010

    Updated to here.

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  16. Cindy says…
    01/06/2010

    My word for this year will be: Observe. It's something I don't do well enough and something I need to be able to do to tell stories that are interesting.
    Thanks Ali.
    Cindy

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  17. Diane says…
    01/06/2010

    Found my word...Balance. Being a single mom of two amazing boys, working full-time, keeping up with friendships and finding the "ME" time...I am determined to find the Balance in my life to fit this all in.
    I love Wordle. With money being super tight, I used the website to make some amazing Christmas gifts for my 10 nieces and nephews. With the help of my boys, we came up with lists describing each cousin (got a little input from the cousin's respective parents as well). I typed the lists into the website, saved the images as pdfs. I then pulled the pdf apart to make 3 separate layers. making sure I didn't repeat any words between layers Printed the top two layers on transparencies and the bottom one on paper. Stacked the layers in a frame with foam spacers separating them. It created a really cool 3D art piece that each child (ages 10-15) loved.
    Thank you for inspiring me.

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  18. Cherri Engle says…
    01/06/2010

    I posted last week that my word for 2010 would be change. But the more I thought about it, I think a better word for me will be 'Transition'. That isn't on your list but transform and transformation are. They are similiar but not exactly the same. Transition seems to have a more positive appeal than change does. I looked up the definition of transition and it fits perfectly for me for 2010.

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  19. K Weston says…
    01/06/2010

    Mastery. As in Self Mastery. That's for me.

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  20. jane says…
    01/06/2010

    My word is LISTEN: I need to listen to my husband when we are just talking. With almost 40 years of marriage I think I need to just listen to him. Not to obey what he is saying just listen when we are just talking. My Mom has lived with us for 5 years and at times it is very hard to be a wife, daughter, mother. I love being a grandmother.
    By reading your blog I am learning to write my thoughts down and what to get busy getting scrapebooks done for my 4 grandchildren.
    Best to you and your family in 2010.

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  21. Miss M! says…
    01/06/2010

    My word for 2010 is "Domesticity".

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  22. JulesHollis says…
    01/06/2010

    My word for 2010 is NEAT as in neat and organized. One of my goals for 2010 is clear out the clutter from my life and home. I want to re-organize my house and life a neat life.

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  23. Deb J says…
    01/06/2010

    What a great list. I still have last years. I love all these great words.

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  24. Jacqueline says…
    01/06/2010

    thank you ali! you just gave us another reason to be inspired by our little word.

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  25. FrancineC says…
    01/06/2010

    Hi Ali, love the Wordle image. My word for 2010 is reconnect :) Thanks for all that you do!

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