OOPSIE DOOPSIE

I’m doing a little blog slacking. It might be on purpose. {I might have opened this very entry SEVERAL times over the past two weeks to try to work on it…} Sorry, friends. Life beyond this tiny corner of the universe got a little bit bigger, and it needed my undivided attention. But you understand, right? Still friends? Great!

So, January is gone with the wind. 2015 is definitely here for another 11 months, and I have some work to do. I need to devote time, set goals and be present. Why that is easier said than done sometimes, I’ll never know. It seems like these three points should be a natural happening, a regular occurrence on our life-road. I was never a fan of declaring resolutions, per se, hence my nod and not-so-private post on intentions and throw-aways for 2014.

So, like so many of you wonderful bloggers, I picked a defining word for the upcoming year.

When the word came to mind, it was a result of deep introspective analysis, sitting at the edge of Jenny Lake, admiring all that is mighty and majestic of the Grand Teton …

Not really. It came to me when I started to think about my goals, the challenges I could possibly face and what I need to do in order to accomplish this 2015 to-do list {which honestly, the to-do list is fluid, ever-changing as it flows … think I just channeled Pocahontas for a second …}.

And then it hit me like a ton of bricks …

| Gumption

noun
shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness

Perfection. I need to attack this year with 100% gumption.

I’m getting it done and done and done, making sure I maintain the course I aspire to take with courage and vigor.

I think we could all use a little extra gumption in our life – forget the put-down’s, the what-if’s, maybe-not’s, if-only’s and coulda-woulda-shoulda BS. Let’s just do it. We already know the hustle is a struggle. Let’s own it. Embrace that life is tough. And let’s knock down every barrier, whether it’s limited patience, not enough sleep or too much crying in the backseat { … from someone that may or may not be defined as a “child”}. We are the inventors of the solutions to these problems.

We’ve got this and we’ve been “getting it” since the dawn of man, literally. We were made to weather the storm … while sorting the mail, tossing laundry in the hamper, answering a work-related phone call five minutes before you put dinner on the table and shouting at someone to get somewhere right now.

So what do you say? Anyone want to share some gumption in 2015?