I've read a lot of blog posts about picking one word to focus on all year and really took them to heart.  Actually, I first heard about this idea last year but it took me this long to come up with my own year long one {ahem...forgive me...two} word mantra.

Ready?  Could you care less?  Probably.  Ha.


Fear is my greatest enemy in life.

Truly.  It holds me back from so many things.

I am fearful of failure.  Fearful of hurting feelings.  Fearful of being too boastful.  Fearful of being too bold.  Fearful of not living up to expectations- both my own and of others- or often what I imagine are those of others.  Fearful of disappointment.  Fearful that I will get to a point when I don't know what to do.

But in reality...

I fail all the bloody time.  I hurt feelings all the time too {I am seriously in an epidemic of people un-friending me on Facebook.}.  Sometimes I am too boastful and sometimes I am too bold.  I pretty much never live up to my own expectations.  And truth be told, I have no idea what others expect of me most of the time.  I disappoint myself and others regularly.  And not a week goes by that I don't stop dead in my tracks scrambling to figure out what to do next as life is just full of surprises.




So if all that happens anyway, my world-o-fear isn't really getting me anywhere.

I think this is going to be a huge personal and internal challenge for me.  But I am going to try to repeat over and over and over again my new, year-long mantra of living fiercely with NO FEAR.  I am going to try very hard to push through that enormous wall that cages me in on a regular basis.  I am going to try to be brave and just do it and remember that you only live once and all that other stuff.  I am going to learn this year to not live in fear and I hope that the outcome proves to be positive.  Even if a few more people un-friend me on Facebook before the year ends...

This year I will live fiercely with NO FEAR!

Do you have a word or mantra for the year?  Have you ever used one before?  Any tips?  If not, it's never too late to think one up!