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“Five minutes after you're born, they decide your name, nationality, religion, and sect—and you spend the rest of your life desperately defending things you didn't choose.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
#Truth
We’re born into a story that was already written—then spend most of our lives clinging to it, often unconsciously.
So this year, I’m trying something different.
Over the holidays, I read One Word That Will Change Your Life, by Jon Gordon & Dan Britton.
I love the simplicity. Instead of a list of resolutions you’ll forget by February, choose just one word to shape the year ahead.
A single word that guides your actions across the six dimensions of your life: mental, physical, emotional, relational, spiritual, and financial
My wife brought this activity to the family over vacation, and we each chose our one word, discussing how it could help us grow—on purpose.
My shortlist of “one words” included:
Present – to stop time traveling to regrets and imagined futures
Intentional – to act, not just react, in my interactions
Aware – to notice the story I’m living… and question if it’s still serving me
In the end, I chose “aware.”
I want to be more aware.
Aware of my thoughts, what worked and didn’t, my defaults...
Not judgmental, just aware.
Because awareness is upstream of choice.
Attention follows intention.
You look for problems, you’ll find problems.
You look for support, you’ll find support.
You look for divinity, guess you’ll find.
It’s the power to say, “That thought isn’t me. I’m aware of my thoughts. I am not controlled by them.”
That’s how I want to spend 2026, in conscious awareness.
So—let’s start the year off with intent:
What’s your one word for 2026?
HMU in the comments.
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