Word of the year

I've been putting of this post because I wanted to put more thought into what I write but I'm giving up and just getting it on here before it never happens!  I decided to pick a word of the year again.  I typed out several words that sort of fit with some of my goals for this year and than I clicked to the thesaurus for each word.  One word kept coming up and that word is:

DELIBERATE

 I've decided that I want to make my actions, my words, my plans and my thoughts deliberate this year.  I'm a planner by nature so that part is not hard but I don't necessarily always plan for the things that are most important or I don't follow through on my plans. I intend to work on that this year, there is more to it and more specific applications, but I'll leave it at this for now.  I actually tried to find an acronym like The Middle-Aged Mormon on one of my new favorite blogs (you can check out his article called "Gap>Pig" here or his article called FHE: "Acronym Night here") but nothing just fit or was too far of a stretch from my word so maybe I'll try that next year. We had a recent Relief Society activity where we talked about our everyday choices.  Part of the activity included giving some different people some simple everyday choices we have to make that can be a challenge and almost every situation came down to the fact that if the person prepared ahead of time, it wouldn't be as much of a challenge.  I think that if I can focus on being more deliberate it can get me to where I intend to be and to who I intend to be.