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My One Little Word for 2015

January 1, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner 15 Comments

After considering three possibilities for my 2015 One Little Word, I focused in on one. Focus.

2015 will be my year of focus.

focus- one little word

The new year brings a clean slate, and oh how I love clean. An ending. A fresh beginning. A chance to continue the progress already made. A new year where amazing things can and often happen.

2014 was a year of change. A year of believing things could change and making purposeful, positive change happen.

Now I plan to focus.

Primarily on my writing.

I’m ready. I can taste it. I want to sit at my desk and write for weeks and weeks uninterrupted. Guzzling coffee. Forgetting to eat. Totally absorbed. That’s the focus I can feel building beneath my skin.

Soon I’ll be making final-final edits on my manuscript (fingers crossed and knock-on-wood). I’m dreaming of that last mile, a completed project. Visualizing a book in my hands.

And I have other unfinished manuscripts hidden in the cloud. Short stories that need attention.

In 2015, I will focus on the craft of writing. Words I’ve yet to write. Stories untold.

I want to be present. Attentive. Mindful.

I want to absorb my surroundings, the sights and sounds that translate into words.

Sense the organic.

Listen to the voice.

My voice.

And there are other things I plan to focus on in 2015. Like our yard. We have a new fence, and that’s a huge start.

Of course, I’ll still blog. But posts may be less frequent. After my daily writing.

I’m excited about 2015. Happy New Year!

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

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Musical Pairing:

Kings of Leon- Last Mile Home

 

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Comments

  1. Barbara Tate says

    January 1, 2015 at 8:58 am

    This is the year that I will hold a book in my hand that was written by TALYA TATE BOERNER. I know it. I just know it. Happy, happy everyone.

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  2. vishalbheeroo says

    January 1, 2015 at 9:51 am

    Wish you a very Happy New Year 2015 filled with creative fulfillment, love and dreams:) I need to do the same buckle my mind to stuffs and de-clutter:)

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  3. Colene says

    January 1, 2015 at 11:03 am

    I feel your excitement and enthusiasm. Go girl! Happy New Year.

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  4. Mark Price says

    January 1, 2015 at 11:14 am

    Like so many others, I eagerly await anything you write. Continue to share your experiences, observations, and memories in 2015 and I’ll be good.

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  5. Laurie Marshall says

    January 1, 2015 at 11:50 am

    Yes!!! Perfectly put and absolutely right!! It’s going to be a great year!!

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  6. [email protected] and Back Again says

    January 1, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Perfect word for the new year! Looking forward to your posts in the coming months.

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  7. Debbie says

    January 1, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    Do you know how glad I am to call you my friend? xoxoxo

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 2, 2015 at 8:11 am

      Awe thank you. I feel the same way!

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  8. Katharine says

    January 1, 2015 at 1:28 pm

    Love “focus”. Wish life were less blurry!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 2, 2015 at 8:11 am

      Thank you Katharine:) Me too!

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  9. Dorothy Johnson says

    January 2, 2015 at 10:39 am

    Great word, especially for you because I can almost feel your focus, too. I have no doubt that we’ll be seeing you name on that book cover soon.

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 3, 2015 at 7:58 am

      Thanks Dorothy! Hope to see you soon.

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  10. Malissa Lucius says

    January 2, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    I am anxiously awaiting the publication of your book. I love your blogs. Even though my Dad wasn’t a farmer, he managed the parts store for the farm equipment. Our Dads were great friends (sometimes to good). You can ask your Mom about them rolling down the levee in my Dad’s truck after spending the day on the sandbar. Your blogs bring back memories from a happier time. Thank you!!

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 3, 2015 at 7:58 am

      Thank you Malissa! Hopefully 2015 will be the year:))

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  11. Lyn Fenwick says

    January 9, 2015 at 10:52 am

    I love this blog. Can I ever identify!! There was a brief pause in the construction I used to start back through the manuscript, tightening and removing the imagined dialogue that seemed to bother editors, but work picked up and I haven’t finished the editing. Construction choices I need to be involved in are nearly at an end, so I can get back to the manuscript and the marketing…the part I avoid! You have inspired me!! Wish we lived closer so we could occasionally meet to motivate one another.

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