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New Blog | New Year | Looking Towards JOY in 2012

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Welcome to my New Blog for 2012!

If you came here from one of my other blogs,

you will see that this blog has a very different focus.

My other blogs focus and will continue to focus on my life as a writer. 

Walking towards JOY in 2012...© Kim Koning Photographs

This blog is going to be a more personal journey.

As always creativity is the focus of my life…

It is my fuel and my nourishment both as an individual and as a writer & poet. 

This blog is about a search for more creativity, gratitude, and a focus on living a more inspired life 

as an artist, a writer, a creative individual and a born again Christian.

I will be using both art, crafts and camera and any other creative medium to journal my journey.

Anything shared or journalled in this journey are my own thoughts, my own emotions and my own inspirations. This is a personal blog shared publicly in the tone of inspiration.

For the last 2 years I have searched out a Word of the Year instead of making New Year’s Resolutions. One of my friends recently posted that one should not make Resolutions but Goals. For me the Word of the Year is a Focus for the whole year. It is a word or a set of words that combines both goal, focus, commitment  and promise for the New Year.

I was first inspired to find a Word of Purpose by Elizabeth Gilbert in her bestselling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. I read the book at a time in my life when I was at the lowest level of despair and sadness. The book resonated with me in an instant. I believe that there are certain books that come into your life at just the right moment and for me then it was Eat,Pray,Love.

So this is my third year of finding a Word or Words of the Year.

  • In 2010 – My words were: BELIEVE and RENEW
  • In 2011 – My words were: POSSIBILITY and SEEK

In 2012 – My words are…

CHOOSE
DANCE
JOY

Or to put in a sentence ~ I CHOOSE to DANCE for JOY in 2012

Another thing I do to start the New Year off is to create a Vision Board. I usually incorporate my Words of the Year into the Vision Board. I do two types of Vision Boards: One a digital version that I use as my Desktop Background on my laptop and the other a physical Vision Board that I hang in my office.

This year though I have also signed up to a project called Book of Days 2012. This is an art journalling project where you don’t just journal thoughts and memories but you use arts and crafts to better journal your year of 365 days. So I have combined my Words of the Year, my Vision Board and my Book of Days into one project that I will be journalling both in this blog and in a physical art journal which I am still creating.

So here is a preview of my Vision Board for this year…which will also be the cover for my Book of Days.

My Words of the Year 2012 ~ I "CHOOSE" to "DANCE" for "JOY"

So what is your plan for 2012? If you can choose a Word of the Year or Words of the Year, what will your Word / Words be? What Project 365 would you like to do? Below are some ideas of what other people in the Blogging world are going to do for 2012. I would love to know what your Word is or what your 2012 Goals or Projects are…
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