Word of the Year: Mindful
2 min readJan 31, 2024
And my 24 for 2024 list
Last year, I was feeling so dispirited, I decided not to set a word for the year. But as I was writing out my 24 goals for this year, a clear theme emerged.
Many of the things I would like to accomplish this year require mindfulness and intention. After three years of tang soo do and five years of yoga, I may have this mindfulness thing down.
(The key is not to try to stop intrusive thoughts. Let thoughts come. Just give them a glance, and let them keep on going.)
24 for ‘24
- Read 24 books.
- Find a dentist for myself and make appointment.
- Arrange for my youngest to get braces.
- Earn black belt in tang soo do.
- Start going to the office twice a week.
- Get a new used car.
- Start eating 100g of protein a day.*
- Start walking (at least) 5,000 steps a day.
- Add two days of strength training to my workout regimen.
- Learn how to do crow pose.
- Schedule shingles shots.
- Schedule a colonoscopy.
- Get second piercing in ears (for real this time!).
- Purge bookshelves.
- Purge board games.
- Eat more fruits and vegetables daily.*
- Get sober(ish)*.
- Be more intentionally social — If I call you to hang out, I mean it!
- Publish 12 articles on Medium.
- Go target shooting.
- Work on and publish at least one work of short fiction.
- Finish second novel / do NaNoWriMo.
- Do a member presentation for work.
- Join Toastmasters and give a Toastmasters talk.
*These are topics for which I have follow-up posts percolating. Stay tuned!