Cross posted today at Vision and Verb:

Do you remember what most people were doing and talking about at the end of the year, as 2010 approached, and even for a while after that?  Resolutions, that’s what.  Everywhere I went people were talking about and making resolutions. I don’t make resolutions, because I would inevitably fail to keep my resolutions and who needs to be a failure?  I sure don’t. 

But then I started reading about people choosing a single word or a phrase upon which to focus during the year, either for their personal life or for their photography or both.  So I thought to myself, “Self!  You can do that!  You can pick a word to focus on throughout the year.” And so I thought about it for a few days and came up with the perfect word.  It was so perfect that I did the happy dance (yes, I was all by myself at the time).  And then the next day. . .

Click on over to Vision and Verb to read the rest of the story.