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One Word 2019

Starting a new year with focus the key to being productive and achieving your personal and professional goals. This logic is the reason resolutions are so popular. They give voice to our goals, hopes, and wishes. Unfortunately, so many people fall short each year of achieving their goals. By the first buds on the trees in early spring, the resolutions are long forgotten.

Instead of the pressure of resolutions, I want to return to my “anti-resolution resolution” idea from 2017. I suggest the one word resolution. Coming up with a word that will not only be the word for our personal and professional lives takes some thought. What word could be both relevant to all people, both workforce professional and non-workforce professional alike?  After much deliberation, the one word for 2019 is “improve.”

The word “improve” is so relevant to our day to day lives in the land of workforce development. In our industry, we seek to improve the economy, improve businesses, improve people, and ultimately improve the day to day world.  How fitting it is to choose a word to not summarize our day to day work, but to also guide us in how to proceed.

After we leave our workforce world for the day, and retreat to our personal lives, this one word can also guide us.  If you choose to be a better person, be healthier, save more money, or get organized, you are seeking to improve yourself.  Your non-workforce professional family and friends also are seeking to improve their lives for 2019.  

After careful thought and deliberation, I have decided my one word for 2019 is “improve.” Make it your year, your hashtag too. Make it your reason and resolution for 2019. Make 2019 your year of “improve.”  #Improve2019
 
~Karen Cirincione
Email: kcirincione@gmail.com
Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/karenjcirincione
Twitter: @kcirincione

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