My Theme For 2010: TEAM!
Each year, I choose a one-word theme that acts as a guide in all my major decisions and shapes my entire year.
I start thinking about the theme around the beginning of December and simply set the intention that the essence of the word will come to me strongly and clearly at the right time to serve my highest good and the good of those I serve.
In 2008, my one word theme was FOCUS – which I like to make into an acronym for “Follow One Course Until Successful.” Focus certainly paid off in 2008; it was my most successful year up to that point.
In 2009, my one word theme was INFLUENCE – I would ask myself consciously and subconsciously, “Who and what am I allowing to influence me?“
When I wrote this post on December 29, 2008 about choosing Influence for 2009, little did I know then how much my choice would impact my year both personally and professionally!
2009 far exceeded my business and finance goals with an abundance of national and international speaking engagements, lucrative joint ventures, celebrity clients, meeting Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama, the successful launch of my first social media certification course, Mentor With Mari, the co-creation of the International Social Media Association. all topped off with an invitation to attend the 52nd Grammy Awards and walk the red carpet!
In 2009 in my personal life, I chose to stop traveling the country in a motorhome and transition out of my eight-year marriage, as I shared in this post. I couldn’t have imagined sharing such an intimate experience so publicly before social media. Yet, the process was profound for both me and my community.
Now, as we celebrate the completion of 2009 and dance into 2010, my resounding one-word theme is TEAM! This word came to me as I contemplated where I got stuck most this year – where I didn’t allow myself to grow as much as I wanted.
One of my Achilles heels is delegation. I’m blessed to have several skilled team members and to be surrounded by powerful mentors, mastermind partners, coaches and other skilled experts. Yet I allowed myself to get completely stopped or stymied in several areas (like blog development, membership programs, product creation, book writing!) because my calendar got so backed up and I wanted to do so much myself.
Of course, there’s such a thing as balance, right? Whilst my two blogs may have taken a back seat, my Twitter presence, Facebook fan page, professional network and speaking engagements flourished significantly!
You’ve probably heard of the word “TEAM” used as an acronym for “Together Everyone Achieves More” (or Miracles). I like this. though if you have other creative suggestions, I’m open to ideas! 😉
Now it’s your turn! What’s your theme for 2010?
Hi Mari,
This year my phrase will be COMPASSION ACTION. I’m going to try, each day, to choose a compassion action for someone in my life (that’s 365 peeps), even if it’s just taking a quiet moment to mentally wish them success on the path they’re walking. Gratitude is such a powerful tool, don’t you think?! So from me to everyone else, I hope 2010 becomes your biggest and best year so far!
Thanks for your idea of a One-Word Theme for New Year.
Ideas for your TEAM acronym:
Tiny Effort Achieves Momentum
Taking Effective Action Manifests
My One-Word Theme for 2010: I love Focus and Momentum
Good choice Mari
T – Together
E – Everybody
A – Achieves
M – More
For me the word for 2010 is “Engaging” All my Marketing will be “Engaging” and I will “Engage” with more people.
With Social Media it has never been easier to be “Engaging” so here is to a fantastic 2010
Love your theme for 2010, Mari….
And have SO loved watching all you’ve been
doing this year!
It was great to get to know you better
when you were a speaker in my Million Dollar Life
Telesummit in 2008….
You have had SO many changes in your life and business since
then.
My theme for 2010 is Systems…
I see this as the key to my having better support from a team…
More time for fun in my life…
Great expansion in my business in a way that is not
going to take over the rest of my life..
I always make my theme tie into the year and I’m still
pondering how to connect “systems” and “2010”
It will come to me…
If anyone has a suggestion, send it along!
Light and love for an amazing 2010!
Suzanne Holman
Hi Mari, love your themeword for this year!. After much thought, I have chosed “Growth” as my themeword. I experienced so many new discoveries in 2008, so many changes in 2009 and now I feel I am at a good place to start from and now will grow professionally, personally and spiritually, I will grow my knowledge, grow my compassion, grow my skills, grow my network, grow my joy 🙂
Best wishes for a fantabulous 2010!
LOVE THIS! I had not been thinking so much in terms of a theme but one word has been coming to mind frequently lately and that word is GRATITUDE. I have grown so much professionally just in the past six months and I owe it to mentors like you and others, amazing connections I would never have made without social media, and my awesome subscriber list. Not to mention one special Twitter friend I met personally who gave me my best advice I had this past year when she said “find one guru and stick to them.”
To me my word for 2010 would have to be perseverance. I’m just beginning my social, blogging journey and it would be so easy to give up and not climb the hurdles I need to climb. There is so much to learn and do that it gets daunting. I’m determined not to give up and to persevere!
I love the theme idea, I started last year after I saw your post.
This year I am choosing “Level-Up”, leapfrogging all areas of my life up to a higher level.
I chose VIGOR – I know, it’s weird, but check out this quote.
“To resist the frigidity of old age [boy I need that!], one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”
~ Alan Bleasdale
TEAM – yes together everyone achieves more, as long as we…
1. communicate clearly with ourselves – resulting in categorising various tasks and further into factors, like timing, accuracy, speed, etc… in the order of importance.
2. Delegate the right task to the right person – matching with various factors (mentioned above) to someone best suited. At all times aiming not to delegate jobs not suited to one.
3. Communicate our vision and Inspire our team to make our goals the goals of the team. Empowering them all not only to complete our initial tasks but to take it far beyond our original vision.
4. Management system to monitor progress and review regularly