Better (Five Minute Friday)

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It’s been a couple of weeks and I am kind of out of the habit of regularly writing already. So, let’s get better about writing a couple of times a week and see what happens.

The start of any new year makes all of us want to be better and do better at whatever our goals are. This year I struggled with choosing the right word to guide my year, and to be honest, I still don’t know what my word is for sure. I’m leaning toward “finish”. I know I want to try to follow the ideas from the article I read recently, Go Deeper, Not Wider, by David Cain, which was brought to my attention by Burgess Taylor in the video below. (THANKS, Burgess!)

Watch from about 0:55 to 2:00 to hear more about it.

Basically, the “Depth Year” is a year to use what you have instead of buying new stuff, finish projects you’ve started and set aside, learn more about subjects you are already familiar with instead of some new shiny thing. I think this will be better for me. “A big part of the Depth Year’s maturing process would be learning to live without regular doses of the little high we get when we start something new. If we indulge in it too often, we can develop a sort of “sweet tooth” for the feeling of newness itself.”

I am really excited about going in depth this year. I already know I want to dive back into genealogy research. I have been out of it for too long. I might want to branch out with my crochet for charity and do something besides hats, or maybe at least try a new pattern or two. I would also like to bring some closure to the numerous novels I have started writing and written enough to win NaNoWriMo, but never even reread after November was over. I’m not saying this is the year any of them get published, but I need to make myself read them, examine them, decide if they should be forever shut away in some dark drawer, or edited and rewritten until they are ready to query perhaps. I feel like this depth year will be a great way to practice being fearless (2017) and having confidence (2018) which were my most recent words of the year.

So I encourage you to read the article, it is only one page long. I wanted to keep it handy, so I shrunk it down, printed it out and glued it inside my new 2019 bullet journal after the yearly calendar and before the index/contents. Yes, it is that important to me. I want to reread it often to stay focused on my depth year. So, what do YOU think? Does finish sound like the right word for me in 2019? Can you think of a better choice? I’m open to suggestions, please email me directly or leave a comment below. Please subscribe using the box in the side margin so you can get notified by email when I post something here and feel free to check in and ask what I have gone in depth on. Should I choose something new each month? Each quarter maybe? If you been here long, what do you think I should choose to go in-depth on first?

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Better
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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