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My friend Liz did something special and unexpected for me yesterday: she sent me an email with a voice recording of herself reading all the 2011 words (listed on my blog up until about mid-day pacific ...

The 2011 words: Abide Abundance Accept Acceptance Accomplish Achieve Achievement Act Action Active Alive Allow Altered Anyway Apply Appreciate Art Athlete Attitude Authenticity Awake Aware Awareness Babysteps Badassery Balance Basic Be Beauty Become Begin Believe Belonging Beloved Better Blessed Blessing Bliss Bloom Bold Bounce Brave Breath Breathe Build Calm Can Capable Capture Care Celebrate Challenge Chance Change Charity Chef Cherish Choice Choices Choose Clarity Clean Cleanse Clear Cliffjumper Colorful Comfort Comfortable Commit Commitment Community Compassion Competent Complete Completion Confidence Connect Connection Conquer Consistency Consistent Content Contentment Control Conviver (Portuguese for live together) Courage Courageous Couture Create Create Joy Creativity Crescendo Cultivate Dabble Daily Dance Dare De-stress Decide Declutter Deliberate Delight Detail Details Determination Determined Develop Devote Devotion Diligence DIRECTION Discipline Discover Discovery Do Downsize Dream Drishti (Sanskirt for vision, focus, point of view) Edit Educate Elegance Embrace Emerge Encourage Endure Energy Engage Enjoy Enough Enrich Established Esteem Eucharisteo Evanescence Evolve Excel Excitement Execute Exemplify Experience Explore Expositus Express Extra Faith Faithful Faithfulness Family Fearless Feast Find Finish Firework Fit Float Flourish Flow Fly Focus Focus Forward Follow Forgive Forward Free Freedom Fresh Friendship Frolic Frugal Fruition Fun Fundamental Funny Gift Give Go Good Goodness Grace Gratitude Green Groovy Grow Growth Happiness Happy Harmony Heal Health Healthy Heart Here Home Honesty Hope Humble Ignite Illuminate Imagine Improve Incarnational Initiate Inspiration Inspire Integrate Intention Intentional Invest Invigorate Involved Iron J.O.Y. Journal Journey Joy Kind Laugh Lead Leap Learn Less Let Go Letting Go Liberating Light Lighten Listen Little Live Lose Love Loving Loving-Kindness Luck Magic Make Manage Manifest Marathon Me Memory Merry Mindful Mindfulness Miracle Moderation Moment Momentum More More & Less Motivate Motivation Mountain Move Movement Moxie Nest New No Normal Notice Nourish Nourishing Nourishment Now Nudge Nurture Observe One Open Openness Opportunity Order Organization Organize Own Pace Participate Passion Patience Pause Peace Peacefully Clear Perceive Perceptive Persevere Persistent Perspective Place Plan Plant Play Pleasure Positive Possibilities Power Practice Pray Prayer Prepare Present Preservation Preserve Prioritize Proactive Produce Progress Promise Prosper Prosperity Prosperous Purpose Purposeful Pursue Push Quench Radical Raise RE Reach Ready Realize Rebuild Receive Recharge Recommit Reconnect Recover Rediscover Reduce Refine Reflect Reflection Reform Refresh Rejoice Rejuvenate Relationship Relax Release Relinquish Relish Remade Remember Renaissance Renew Renewal Rescue Resolve Responsibility Responsible Rest Restore Return Reunion Revive Revivify Revolution Rhythm Risk Risks Roots Routine Sacrament Sail Satisfy Savor Seek Self-Control Self-evolution Sensitive Serendipity Serenity Seriously Servant Serve Share Shift Shine Should Simple Simplicity Simplify Slow Smile Soak In Soar Social Solace Song Soul Space Sparkle Spontaneity Stabilize Start Steady Step Stewardship Stillness Story Strength Strengthen Stretch Strive Strong Succeed Surrender Sustain Synergy Take Care Take Flight Teach Technology Temple Tenacity Thankful Thrifty Thrive Tillåt (allow in Sweedish) Time Today Together Touch Tranquil Transform Transformation Travel Treasure Tribe True Trust Try Two Unburden Unleashed Untethered Uplift Value Verb Verve Vibrant Victory Vision Vitality Wait Walk Walk On The Water Warrior Welcome Well Well-being Wellness Whole Wholehearted Willingness Wi$dom Wonder Write Yes Zen INSPIRING AS EVER! Thank you ...

My 2011 necklace from the lovely Lisa Leonard. Get one for yourself here. My word for 2011 is light. This year my word sure seemed to choose me. Most years I start thinking about my word for ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe your one little word includes something related to making a dream in your life come true. If so, I definitely recommend investigating an online workshop called Mondo Beyondo ...

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Image created via Wordle. 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 ...

Lovely word of the year necklace from Lisa Leonard Designs. Look for a giveaway from Lisa this weekend.For 2010 I have chosen the word ...

I am a fan of welcoming the new year with open arms. I love fresh starts, new opportunities, clean slates, possibilities. Back in January 2007, as a way to celebrate these beginnings, I started a public tradition of choosing a single word to focus on over the course of ...

My word for 2009 is nurture. I am nurturing a young boy's love of Star Wars & leogs & reading & Harry Potter. I am nurturing an inquisitive mind by answering a lot of awesome seven-year-old questions about ...