Michael Hess inspired us with his three word New Year’s resolution – just be nice. We’re asking for your own resolutions in just three words. http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2013/12/trifextra-week-ninety-nine.html
This year, as I get ready to send my daughter out into a world that often angers me, terrifies me, disappoints me-I want to try hard for her sake, and mine, to embrace these three words:
See the good.
The Word Pirate 
Such a simple and worthy goal, but one the world makes hard to accomplish sometimes. Best wishes and I hope you have a Happy (and Good 😉 ) New Year!
It’s so much easier to see the negative-I think because it gets the attention. I sure see the good in your wonderful comment though, and I heartily wish the same to you! 🙂
I really like this, Valerie. I will have to think of my own three word resolution 🙂
Tammy-this prompt was a fun exercise for the New Year! I’m excited to hear at some point what your three words might be. I’m also excited to keep in touch with you in the new year-and I promise to do just that:) xx
So hard to do! It seems as though all around us there is darkness. I love this, and I may try to follow this myself!
It does seem that way, doesn’t it Tina! I’m going to try hard though;) Thanks for your comment!
I love that… if all had that goal.. maybe it would be different.
Thanks Bjorn-Your meaningful comment means a lot:)
I try…its hard to sometimes. A young woman near where I live was shot at school not long ago. She recently died. It can be a horrifying world.
Thank you for the ornament. Although had you known I was THAT Real Cie, the bastion of curmudgeony, you might have been tempted to send a bear trap instead!
What happened to that young woman has weighed so heavily on my mind. She was my daughter’s age, and I can’t bear to think of the pain her family must be in. After I read your bio, my thought was that we have a lot in common. I wanted to send you something shiny and evocative of light. Thank you, my friend, for your comment, and for reminding me how much I love the word curmudgeon, too;)
best of luck
Lance, methinks I will need it! 😉 Thanks for reading and commenting!
Such powerful words, my friend 🙂 happy 2014!
Thank you, my friend! I’ve missed you the last few weeks-and I’m eager to catch up:)
I love your choice of words…
Thanks Deana! I appreciate that:)
Valerie, my dear, you already do this in your writing, and then you turn and facet it so we can see and understand the good too.
Your writing always moves me. I feel very blessed to have found you when I found Trifecta. Big hugs for a joyous New Year filled with writing and creativity. :)))
Jo-Anne said almost exactly what I was going to say. Really, I echo everything she said. I will add this: remember to look in the mirror, and into the faces of those you love, to see the good. You bring so much good into the world, Valerie, through your writing and your compassion and love. You are part of the good in my life, no doubt.
Thank you, both of you, eternally for that! To think that at the beginning of 2013 I was not blessed with either of your friendships seems inconceivable. I can’t imagine traveling this writing path without you now. I wish you both nothing but the best of your hopes and dreams in 2014. xx Hugs:)
I need to do more of this too (it’s easier since I cut back on watching the evening news.) I hope you have a positive new year 🙂
Janna, I’m going to make a real effort to avoid most news in 2014. I know it distorts my view of the world-and it’s an unrealistic view too. I wish both of us a more positive 2014!! 🙂
I started out the year 2013 with an Only the Good jar . . . filling it with papers on which I wrote about the good things that happened to me and mine. Sort of fell out of the habit along about October, but I have a jar full of blessings I plan to read tomorrow night. I hope you and your daughter will see the good in the coming year.
Thank you for that, Barbara! I also love your idea of the jar. I’m going to try that for myself:)
I wish you many blessings in 2014!
Simple yet very powerful 🙂 LOved this , Valerie 🙂
Thank you so much, my friend! Happy New Year, too!
Sigh! So simple and something we hear and see all the time and yet, so perfect.
Thanks Deb:) I really, really want to do this one:)
Happy 2014 to you too!!
Sometimes hard to do, but there is much good to find if we look. Great goal!
I agree Bryan! I want to focus on the good things, even if I have to look really, really hard;)
Happy New Year!!
Not alway easy but still worth the effort.
Happy New Year Valerie.
Well said, Mike!
I hope you have a perfectly wonderful 2014:)
A resolution I sincerely appreciate.
Wishing you a very joyful 2014.
Thanks AC:) And the same to you, my friend:)
You & I are in the same bait…launching our daughters. See the good.
It’s funny, Angie, but sometimes I feel like I could use better bait;)
Launching my daughter will be the hardest thing I ever do. I may have to take up fishing:)
Funny how typos can be a watershed. Don’t take the bait…you’re in good company in the BOAT. lol Happy New Year to you and yours!
Boat!
🙂
Happy 2014!!
very nice goal 🙂 I love it.
Thanks a million!!
Welcome a billion 😉
Definitely the better option, but as mothers we can’t help envisioning things we hope to avoid. It’s hard work to see the good. Here’s to trying.
Happy New Year, Valerie!
Ain’t that the truth, Kymm!
Cheers, my friend. See you next year:) xx
YES.
Thanks! 🙂
Happy New Year to you too!
The best way to see the magic of the world ! I love this! 🙂 Happy New Year!
Thanks Archita! I just love what you’ve said here-I don’t want to miss out on any of the magic!
Happy 2014!!
A rule that is easy to say, yet so hard in practice. But, seeing the good has health benefits and can reverse depression! Love your resolution!
I agree with you so much!! I am prone to depression, and one of the best ways to combat it is to focus on the good. I just have to remind myself to do just that!
Thank you for your wonderful comment-and Happy New Year to you too:)
Easy to miss the beauty amid the darkness but, it is ever so important to make the effort to look. Good luck letting your little girl go. If she is like you, I am sure she will make the world more beautiful. 🙂
Thanks Tom! That is such a wonderful comment. I’ll be looking for good everywhere-even in the process of letting my girl fly:)
I’ve been trying to do that for some time now… it makes life easier. Happy New Year, Valerie.
I think so too Ted. I’m ready to start embracing this resolution for myself. Happy New Year to you too!
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This one is fantastic. I feel for you sending your daughter into the world. I have two girls, 11 and soon to be 8. I was anxious when my oldest began middle school. It sounds almost easy to see the good in life. I think we get caught up in the bad and it overshadows the beauty still out here. Hopefully she can see the good. Best wishes for the upcoming year.
Donetta, I agree! The bad overshadows the good a lot of the time, but it’s there! Maybe I should have my resolution tattooed on myself;) All the best in 2014 for you and your precious family:)
This comes down to focusing on what you want to create, rather than on what you don’t want to create. It’s so easy to focus on the negative and then wonder why we have so much of it in our lives. I wish you the very best with this. A worthy goal indeed. Happy New Year.
Oh..this is so true..the world can be so beautiful if people just turn the TV and the News OFF.. go outside..and move back to their real HOME..nature…
And oh my goodness..just to take one’s shoes off and connect to the earth..can even make things more beautiful..to hug the earth..without manmade obstacles….So Happy New Year..and be it more beautiful than ever for ya…..
I love what you wrote so much! Countless times I’ve found a peace and comfort in nature that can be found nowhere else. The world would be such a better place if we all learned to reconnect with the earth:) A beautiful New Year to you too!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR my friend.
Your choice of words, well they made me tear up for many personal reasons.
I believe, deep down in my mushy heart, that seeing the good (or trying very hard to) in every person, in every situation, in every painful moment is the reason that I am still here. It’s saved my life. It’s pushed me to be empathetic and understanding, forgiving (with myself and most other people) and kind.
it’s an honest resolution. It speaks to being Hopeful and accepting and there is no better way to be.
Love you my friend. Hope 2014 is all you dream it to be. XO
This one is great. It could help relieve a lot of stress and worry.
Excellent words to live by, Valerie! If your daughter is anything like you, I think she will be just fine. 🙂
I’ve missed you! Glad you’re here and I’m glad to be back.
I used to only see the good but now, it’s harder and harder. Thanks for the reminder. Happy New Year!
“See the good” – what a challenge! Thanks for this reminder that we can all use as a mantra. 🙂 Happy New Year!
There is always good, we might not see it first thing however it will become visible to us at some point in time…my favorite book shows that to me time and time again. Cheers beautiful Val. Thank you for being such an encouraging member of Trifecta towards me in these first 10 weeks of participating. Looking forward to a fun 2014 reading all of your words.
I am so guilty of focusing on the negative, perceiving the bad, and expecting the worst. Your three words are a much-needed slap upside the head for me.
This is such an exciting time for your baby girl (which she will always be, no matter how old she is or how far she travels). I know you will revel in her joy. Oh, and remind me to practice what I preach a few years from now when I’m in your shoes. 🙂
Lovely three words, my friend. Happy 2014! XOXO
Brilliant resolution, Valerie, and one that we all need more of. Your girl will be brilliant, too. She sounds wonderful, and her mother is as well.
Yay, Valerie!!!! I am thrilled to see your name at the top for this challenge!! A wonderful way to begin the year and I can’t wait to read more of your gorgeous writing :))) HUGS!!