OLW

One person who I follow either through her blog or her article in CK is Ali Edwards. For awhile now she has done OLW (One Little Word) and last year I was going to do one. But if you remember back to January 2008, it started out with the basement flood, then the hospital with mom. Life kinda got sidetracked. This year, I decided to pick a word and go with it, no matter what life throws at me. My word this year is Accept

To endure resignedly or patiently;

To regard as proper, normal, or inevitable;

To recognize as true;

So here are a few quotes that I like for my word for the year:

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.” Harvey S. Firestone

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

Both by Denis Waitley

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
Voltaire

Then a favorite since childhood...

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

You will be seeing more of this word in 2009, as there is alot of things I need to accept in my life. Here is to a 2009 of accepting! Catch you later!