This is the last in my five part focus series.

This year I am focusing on:

1. Exercise – I’m working on a cross-fit inspired regime that I will keep up with regularly. I already made great gains with exercising in 2013 by joining a fun team sport. Can you guess what it is? I am focusing on building my skills in this sport.
2. Reading – It simply feels good to read. I feel less guilty than watching TV or playing candy crush (I quit candy crush), so I might as well have an outlet for decompression that feels good all around. I am focusing on reading at least one book a month.
3. Blogging – It doesn’t matter which blog I focus on (yes I have more than one blog), as long as I focus on blogging. With my focus on blogging, I want to be working on my goal of monetizing blogging. I also enjoy writing, so I need to make time for it.
4. Art – My Photoshop skills are growing alongside my photography skills.  I am focusing on continuing to build these skills.
5. Extroversion – I tend to keep things on the inside and compartmentalized. I am focusing on sharing more with friends and family. Essentially, I am focusing on “putting myself out there”.

Of course I have to have share a more generic version for the world to love.

You can see one, two, three, and four in my focus series.

Happy New Year!

Part four of the focus series is simple.

Focus.

(It makes me giggle how much this picture is “Internet Word Art 101”. )

See the first in the focus series here, the second here, and the third here.

Happy New Year’s Eve!

This is part three of the focus series.

I wanted something with fun colors and loved the quote I found here. I’m usually quite the optimist, but I have felt that part of my personality weakening.  I am working on flexing that muscle.

Adam and I saw this tree while driving down a country road. He is the one that took this picture.

See the first in the focus series here and the second here.

This is number two in the focus series. The original inspiration was here.

It is too easy to get caught up in what other people want, or what you think other people want.  As a wife and teacher, I am used to putting other people first. I have good ideas that will remain simply that if I do not focus on making them a reality.  That does not make me selfish.  Focusing on my ideas will benefit others. (Repeat to self.)

I was feeding this raft of ducks and although they were individually focused, they remained a team.

Checkout my first in the focus series here.

I feel like my life can take a million different directions and I want to be open to every single one.  Realistically, I want the journeys I take to be purposeful and the best ones possible.  With that, I have my word for 2014.

Focus.

I loved this quote, so I used it to create my own word art.  This is the first in a series of 5.

I spent the day with my dad and Adam at a local lake and took this picture.  For me, it is the epitome of focusing on what makes me happy.