I’ve been sharing my word of the year since 2012 you can find my previous words here, here, here and here.

I shared a little about my 2018 in my reflections and lessons learned post you can read it here.

2019 Word Of The Year

Happiness.

It feels so simple yet right.

Something I’ve learnt over the past three years is that no matter what happens to me and around me at my core I crave happiness.

I can be sat in a hospital bed, banned from food for two weeks, hooked up to an IV and so long as I’m happy at my core I know I can get through anything and everything.

I know happiness is a subjective term but it means so much to me. You see on one awful day in February 2010, seven days after turning 25 the worst moment of my life happened.

My daddy died.

That year is pretty much the year of forgotten. Unless it concerned my Mum, I pretty much zoned out.

I entered 2011 knowing that something had to change in my life and of course found some of the answer in a book, The Happiness Project. It turned how I look at happiness on my head and realised it wasn’t something external but an internal solution I needed. And my journey to happiness began.

It’s not a super fascinating story or even a uncommon one. But it’s mine and at the end of the day Happiness is important to me. And I know I need to make it a focus.

Instead of focusing on calm or connection or family which were my other possible choices for this year, I’m focusing on happiness because at the end of the year no matter what does or doesn’t happen I hope I can look back and say for the majority of the year that I was happy.