Skip to main content

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

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mastering the Grilled Cheese Sandwich Project

An engaging book club discussion about email, how we work, and also just how we as people manage our lives. The more we talked the more I started to realize that essentially project management is essentially a life skill everyone needs to master to be successful. If we simplify Project Management down to the easiest way of explain it and applying, we can define it as taking a big end goal and break it down to smaller goals, figuring out the tasks with each smaller goal, and then allocating lots of resources along the way. Ultimately at the core of project management is planning and organizing, but communication is really at the heart of it all. A project may be big, like building a bridge, creating and implementing software, or it can be as small as figuring out what to make for dinner. Along the way to said goal, every step needs to be clear and everyone needs to communicate about all the said steps along the way. Sounds easy, but apparently it is not so simple. One would think ev...
Post a Comment
Read more

A WIOA Fairy Tale

I thought it was time to have a little fun with WIOA and write a fairy tale. My last fairy tale was published in June of 2014 and was before WIOA legislation. To read the first workforce development fairy tale, check out the archives. Once upon a time in a far off land called Weeoha, lived a community of residents. Many of these residents had jobs and careers, but some found themselves in need of services and assistance to get jobs. Some were reliant on the government for assistance with basic needs because they could not find jobs. Three of these residents, Jack Butcher, John Baker, and Josie Candlemaker, found themselves not satisfied with their lack of opportunity and decided to go on a pilgrimage to find the legendary Cup of Career Success.   According to urban legend, whomever drank from this cup was promised eternal employment and self-sufficient wages as long as they desired. Jack, John, and Josie set out on foot to find the legendary cup. Their first stop was to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

How do you Birthday?

Another year in my life has passed. It’s time for another birthday. Each year as the day approaches, I take the time to reflect on my past year, my accomplishments, and my goals for the year. My birthday is like my personal New Years’ celebration with another opportunity to have the best year ever.   I am not afraid of a birthday. Age is just a number, but each year is what you make of it. Each year I have seen the sun rise, the rain fall, and the snow melt, I have been given a gift from the universe. Many people do not get to see another birthday. I owe myself the opportunity to set goals and feel proud as I work towards achieving them. Sometimes these goals have been born from unhappy feelings and bad situations, but growth brings wisdom.   In my working life, and especially as a workforce professional, I know some of my growth must be professionally. Having experience working with job seekers looking for jobs, I understand how crucial professional growth is...
Post a Comment
Read more