Theme It If You Mean It!

Companies have logos, schools and sports teams uniforms and mascots, countries flags... they pick something to stand for what they're trying to showcase. Why not you?!

Each year I choose a word(s), and for the last few years a color, to represent the year ahead and I encourage the Mappers who take my workshop to do the same when they're creating theirs. I got the above picture from a friend who was at the January workshop and she chose Vitality and the color Violet for her 2014 theme. She was excited to show me how these shoes represent what she is creating for herself this year. Would she have gotten some new shoes anyway? Maybe, but when we theme projects and endeavors I think we give them an extra kick (pun intended).

Another friend/Mapper is going with the theme: Faith, Friends, Fun, Fitness with the color Fuchsia. They both picked colors that had same letter as their words (mine doesn't) but to get into having a theme for your year I highly recommend having a word and color that you love together.

Mapping out our year is by far the most important step but after you know what you want why not summarize it in a word and color and then get out there and go create an amazing 2014!

My color:                                         What's yours?

Fuchsia Rose for 2014

Year of Areté!

2014

This year's theme is: Areté!

Basically it is defined as the act of living up to one's full potential. Achievable? Well it isn't about the destination it is about the act of living and expanding our potential everyday. I've noticed I've been improving my life, but inch by inch... this year I'm going to challenge myself to jump in and go full force. Feel free to call me on it when I'm not bringing my Areté to the party :)

What's yours?

Previous: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. 2009  

Happy YOU Year!

I love the start of the year... ah, the clean page of a new calendar and the fresh possibilities in a just created map of the year to come!

In 2007 Oprah and Jerry Seinfeld were chatting about life and he said something that made a big impression on her: It's yours to design. I love this statement because it goes so nicely with this time of year and my strong belief in mapping out our lives.

We can use our power and brilliance to design a life we would love and an attitude we can embrace to live into it. Will it always work out? No, but more times then not it will at least make us happier along the way.

Whatever you want for yourself this year map it out, put it on your radar, discuss it with others, work towards it, sacrifice for it.... and you'll see much of it start to show up.

You deserve a great year so go create one for yourself!

Wishing YOU a joyous New Year! :)

ME Mapping: Creating Your Year from Joy Meredith

[Highly recommend mapping your year using the above technique asap... but if you'd rather do it with others come join me on January 11th and we'll create your year together.]