<\/a><\/p>\nLast year I jumped on the \u201cword of the year\u201d bandwagon. I have really liked this concept, and I feel that my word served me well.<\/p>\n
Why, then, am I keeping this word for the month of January 2016 instead of moving on to my (surprising) word for the new year?<\/p>\n
Because my word for 2015 was COMPLETION. And I\u2019m not finished with that word yet! (Yeah, ironic, huh?)<\/p>\n
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When I first thought about adopting a word of the year in December of 2014, the words that I kept thinking had to do with finishing, finalizing, completing. And for good reason.<\/p>\n
I have been stuck in a \u201cnot finishing\u201d rut for a long time. Not because I don\u2019t work my tail off (because I do\u2014and I love working).<\/p>\n
Not because I don\u2019t know what I need to do in order to \u201ccomplete\u201d\u2014because I definitely do. I\u2019ve been writing and testing fifty books for fifteen years. I know how to do this with my eyes closed (which is another reason I don\u2019t complete….too many ideas at night! \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n
Not because I don\u2019t want to finish these things\u2014wowsie, do I ever.<\/p>\n
But for some reason (too many projects at once, too big of projects\u20148,000 pages in all Meaningful Composition books combined; too much \u201ctesting\u201d of the books resulting in too many changes\/additions; and more), the completion of several projects has just eluded me.<\/p>\n
(Note that elude is associated with elusive, which can mean hidden; allude is associated with allusion, which can mean call something to mind without mentioning it. This parenthetical text is probably another reason that finishing these projects has ELUDED me….squirrel!)<\/p>\n
So COMPLETION until at least the end of January it is! Hopefully, I will introduce my new word then….when these things are COMPLETED:<\/p>\n
1)<\/strong> Meaningful Composition books 5 I through 11 I (two semesters each)<\/p>\n2)<\/strong> Write On, Peter Pan! Five e books for public, private, and homeschools<\/p>\n3)<\/strong> Letters and Sounds: Little ABC Rhyming Books<\/p>\n4)<\/strong> Letters and Sounds: My Collage Book<\/p>\nIt will be a great feeling. I can\u2019t wait! So until that moment is achieved\u2014COMPLETION is my word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last year I jumped on the \u201cword of the year\u201d bandwagon. I have really liked this concept, and I feel that my word served me well. Why, then, am I keeping this word for the month of January 2016 instead of moving on to my (surprising) word for the new year? Because my word for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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