One Word to be BETTER in 2024

My annual exploration to find my One Word for 2024 was a little different than in years past. I wasn’t spending hours of quiet time, alone with my thoughts and prayers. This year it seemed to be more about me stumbling over some things that were in my way and I finally decided to look and see what it was that kept tripping me up. 
 
I wasn’t going heavy into the searching because I felt I was already there and knew that I had narrowed down my words. But then, on the same morning roughly 20 minutes apart, I received two texts from two people who do not know each other. One was from my sister and the other was a friend and former co-worker. Both were asking me about whether or not I had chosen my One Word for the year. 
 
Those two people reaching out to me was the trigger I needed, so I turned my attention to the process of selecting my One Word that has been made famous by Jon Gordon. There were actually two words that jumped out at me; CLOSURE and BETTER. Closure was prominent in my thoughts because there are a lot of areas in my life where I have failed to finish as well as some aspects that I need to put to rest internally.
 
But in the end, it was BETTER that was the loudest One Word. There are so many areas of my life where I want, no, I NEED to be BETTER. This approach at its most fundamental will help me to gain CLOSURE if I can simply Be Better Today than I was yesterday. 
 
I want to be a BETTER husband.
I want to be a BETTER father.
I want to be a BETTER sibling.
I want to be a BETTER friend.
I want to be a BETTER listener.
I want to be BETTER at finishing.
I want to be BETTER about reaching out to others.
I want to be BETTER at showing gratitude.
I want to be BETTER at showing and living empathy.
I want to be BETTER at maintaining focus.
I want to be BETTER about living a life of IMPACT.
 
I want to Be Better Today than I was yesterday.
 
As I was drafting this blog, I realized I wrote down a bunch of I WANTS but as I wrote in a previous blog, that means nothing without the I WILL.
 
I WILL Be Better Today than yesterday, and that commitment is what brings value to my One Word and will help me be BETTER Beyond Today.

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