I’ve just returned from my annual holidays at the beach a few days ago. While I do celebrate the new year on 1st January along with the majority of people in the western world, January itself is always a month of hiatus for me, a time of family comings and goings and several weeks of camping on the coast.

I’ve spent the time thinking and not thinking, reading and dreaming. I’ve swum in the ocean with the kids, watched the dolphins, gone on a few walks through the bush and taken a few photographs.

I did poke my nose into my emails occasionally, and I also followed along on Create & Thrive’s 30 Questions during January. The 30 questions were a great bunch of ideas you should seriously ask yourself about your biz – some broad, some quite specific, and all of them thought-provoking – with the aim of giving you insights into yourself AND your biz. It was Day 4’s question that grabbed me early on, and has kept me deep in thought over the last few weeks.

 

“What is one word that sums up your plans for your business in 2015?”

 

I thought very long and hard about this one, because it’s THIS word that has the power to lift you when you’re flat, to push you when you don’t feel like it. Dig below the business plans, and this one word is perhaps not just about your business; but more importantly, it’s about YOU.

For too many years, for too many reasons, I’ve procrastinated on opportunities big and small until they fell off the edge of my desk. Getting stuck doing “busy” work, checking and rechecking things that were not actually moving me any direction except sideways (stats, I’m looking at YOU). Trying to write stuff, but it’s hard and then getting sidetracked, and making a(nother) cup of tea. Social media (because heck, it’s fun). Check the cupboard for a snack. Write another half dozen words and I’m stuck again. Make a(nother) cup of tea. And after all this complaining loudly that “Woe is me! There’s never enough time to do everything!”

I’ve come to the realisation that I’m not really afraid of the hard work, it’s just that I’m afraid of stepping out of my comfort zone. Sometimes I feel like a frightened rabbit.

 

papier mache mask by MiesmesaBerni on Etsy

papier mache mask by MiesmesaBerni on Etsy

{rabbit mask here}

 

So February is the beginning of my new year.  And it’s time for my new word.

 

 

UNAFRAID.

 

 

Let my new word be my guide this year. Are you ready for 2015? I am!

Now, what’s your word?