monday musings: my guiding word for 2021

Every January I pick a word that will be my guide for the year ahead. Usually I end up with a couple of ideas and let them percolate a bit before deciding on the one. This year, however, the word presented itself, fully formed and ready for action.  

​My word for 2021 ... 

Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

I'm not sure about the "quickly" in the definition. Recovering from the challenges of the past year (more if I'm honest) will be a slow, steady endeavor but resilience is about not giving up. It's about taking the lessons and using them as momentum forward. I don't consider myself tough. 

Resilience will be picking myself up after a fall, maintaining hope when the knocks come, finding the positive when it's easier to see the negative. But most of all, resilience will be about not being defeated. Because I can and I will!