2012 One Little Word

Many of my blog friends have a One Little Word that they will focus on for the New Year. How cool to focus on a word instead of making resolutions that I know I will not keep. So here is my One Little Word for Year 2012 - FOCUS. Focus on what you say. It's not a matter of what, it's more a matter of staying Focused. They say a child's attention span is short. Well, I believe as I get older my attention span is getting shorter. I find myself losing focus on what I am doing. I get easily distracted and sometimes don't finish what I was doing. I can be working on a project, reading a book or just cleaning. I jump from one thing to the next and don't accomplish very much. So my one little word (FOCUS) is to remind me to keep my attention on what I am doing so that I do finish what I am working on so that at the end of the day I feel like I have accomplished something.

Click on picture to get a closer look. I altered this old pair of my son's glasses for my work desk to remind me to stay focused at work. I then mounted it in an old picture frame I had in my craft room. Because the glasses are bulky, I had to remove the glass from the small picture frame which now gives my project a cool 3D effect. I started to journal what I was going to focus on this year, for instance, Health, Family, Religion, Work, Exercise. Then I reminded myself that it was One Little Word and felt I needed to keep it simple. I am happy with how it came out and I think it will look great in my office. I