With it being the beginning of a new year, so any of the blogs I read are selecting their words of the year.
This always annoys me. Maybe in my HR career I was forced to suffer through too many mission statement brainstorming sessions. To me, they are one and the same – meaningless and a time sink.
I audibly groaned when one of my favorite podcasts (48 Days) started off with the host announcing his word of the year. My mind did the teenage eye roll, and I quit focusing on the podcast. All of a sudden, my brain spit out what would be the perfect word for me: Exploring.
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately exploring long lists of job titles. Whenever something sounds remotely interesting, I use The Googles to find out more. To my long-time readers, this probably sounds familiar – I did the exact same exercise when I was looking to make the leap to a more meaningful job a few years ago. Back then I would get discouraged if it looked like one of those careers where the stars have to align to get a foothold. Now I’m looking for related volunteer opportunities where I could get a taste and possibly get that foothold.
But “exploring,” should I break down and decide to do the word of the year, wouldn’t have to be only job related. I’m planning on taking my from scratch skill sets up a notch. There is something about January that makes me want to go on a spending spree. I’ve bought a lot of supplies I’ll need for this skill building extravaganza. Get ready, readers, for some cooking posts showing off my new food experiments as I learn how to make them or discover I’ll need more practice to perfect. I am dying to explore where my cooking interests are going to fall this year.
You know I’m not one for spoilers, but here is a hint at some future blog posts:
DH2U introduced me to that clip. He knows me and might have created a monster.
Of course as soon as I wrote this I saw that The Bloggess has tackled this topic as well – as hilariously as always. I ❤ her.
Is anyone else irrationally annoyed by the word of the year or mission statements? or What will you be exploring in 2016?
Happy new year! I’ve been absent from reading blogs for SO long. It’s been a crazy few months.
I also hate the resolutions/words/etc. BUT I do kind of like the word/theme thing – it works for me. 😀
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Welcome back, Lisa!!!!!
I’ve been enjoying your six sentence stories. For purely selfish reasons I hope your new year involves more blog posts!
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