Here’s where I talked about my word of the year, fun.
Here’s my quarterly recap at the end of March.
At the end of June, I didn’t recap here on the blog but I did a little recap as part of my half-year review in my bullet journal.
This may speak to some of you but a key mindshift change for me was that I really don’t have to do what I don’t want to do. I’m in charge of my own life.
So I’ve declined invites, changed how I do things here on the blog (have you noticed?), changed other things about how I do my full-time work, and so on.
Here’s a quick list of fun things I’ve done this year:
- Enneagram coaching course
- Four Tendencies deep dive course
- read good, discussable books in book club
- started a kids’ book club
- tending my friendships
- giving lots of gifts, many for no reason at all
- I gave a talk to a moms and daughters group
- reading only fun books during my birthday month
- listening to books on audio that I’ve already read, but knew I would enjoy again (The Happiness Project, Truly Madly Guilty, The Four Hour Workweek)
- changing the way I did Santa Shoebox this year (click to Instagram and then click on the red circle under my bio where I talked about this)
- danced in Zumbathons
- did seasonal photodrives
- used fun notebooks and stationery at work
- went to watch Crazy Rick Asians with some friends (I never go out at night and definitely not to the movies, so this was enormous fun)
- I did a Handyman Course – this was the MOST fun thing ever, possibly because I’ve always wanted to go on a course like this
And now for a brief 18 in 2018 update…
I’ve done 16 of my 18 in 2018 items, and I’ve just scheduled number 17. For some reason I’m getting stuck on number 18…. but there are still 3 months left 🙂
Over to you!
How are you doing with your word of the year?
You can always change your word if it’s not working for you. To be honest, I briefly entertained the idea of changing my word because I feel like my world’s getting smaller….. but then I realised that is precisely the right reason to have FUN as a word. Hopefully there’ll be a few more fun things to say YES to in the next 3 months.
And if you’re doing 18 in 2018 (there’s a free form you can get here), let me know how it’s going. I do hope Gretchen Rubin does this challenge again next year – it’s been such a fun way of doing goals.
