For the last few years, instead of setting a bunch of goals for myself at the dawn of a new year, I’ve been prayerfully choosing one word to focus on for the year. I don’t just randomly choose a word. I spend a lot of time praying about it and thinking about the word to choose because this word is something for me to ponder on every day and work towards achieving it in my life.

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Positive

I am pessimistic by nature. I’ve never liked this about myself, and I do think it has a lot to do with my childhood. But I also believe God can help me work on this and refine myself to become more aware of the good in things, instead of automatically having tunnel vision on the bad.

We all face those moments in life when we are provided the opportunity to practice positivity, or embrace a negative attitude. I want my choices to reflect my faith in God, not my humanistic flaws.