I teach ONE WORD.
Thanks to an Atlanta FACEBOOK friend who knows who she is, I have chosen the word ABUNDANCE today.
ONE WORD is a game I have always played that has many strategies and goals.
It can focus you on the ONE WORD.
It can expand your vocabulary around the ONE WORD.
It can get you closer to the true meaning of the ONE WORD.
It can help you along your life's journey through your ownership of the ONE WORD.
Let's play ONE WORD with JG's word ABUNDANCE.
To JG, ABUNDANCE means MORE THAN ENOUGH, SECURITY, PLENTY.
To someone who is homeless and hungry, it might be a hot meal.
To someone with ten million dollars liquid, it might mean very little.
Yet to that same person, if they are avaricious, it might mean little, as they sneer at someone with 50 million.
What I teach is to develop a cluster around ABUNDANCE which makes you focus on the WORD and its importance to your life.
As you choose the words which nest fit your CUSTOM CLUSTER, you include some and disregard the others.
I stress to students that this ONE WORD exercise doesn't have to have a beginning or an end.
It's a fluid journey.
Just like your life is a fluid journey.
You can't remember your earliest beginning and hopefully, you will have little knowledge of your final stop.
The ONE WORD experience helps you to FOCUS on what is important to you and for you to have a permanent record of the WORDS you have chosen along your journey.
My WORDS FOR ABUNDANCE came out in this cluster.
PLETHORA
AFFLUENCE
COPIOUS
MYRIAD
PROSPERITY
OPULENCE
THRIVING
My personal preference for my CUSTOM CLUSTERS is to position 4-8 WORDS for me to associate with the FOCUS WORD.
You will note how ONE WORD becomes a powerful vocabulary tool.
Words such as PLETHORA, COPIOUS, MYRIAD AND OPULENCE are excellent POWER words in anyone's vocabulary.
This is why my game or teaching tool of ONE WORD might very well be the greatest vocabulary builder ever.
I will let you be the judge.
When I see ABUNDANCE, in my mind< I SEE piles of CASH on a poker table in a casino.
I SEE a refrigerator filled to the top shelf with provisions for weeks.
I SEE a safe, secure dwelling, with a laughing family, enjoying the best life has to offer.
And I see one THRIVING to achieve this abundance and never surrendering their ambition.
No matter what one's definition of ABUNDANCE is, we can all agree that we need to THRIVE to achieve what we desire.
I strive for ABUNDANCE.
We all do.
By adding this WORD to your FOCUS, you will have added another tool as you follow your personal journey.
We have no idea what will come next along our path.
That is the way of this world we live in.
We do know this.
We have our words.
ONE WORD at a time can make a difference.
And now you have seen how.
I hope it makes a difference for you.
1 comment:
Oh wow! So this is what it's like to have a personal coach!
What an amazing tool you've created, Steve, and thank you for your generosity in sharing it.
For someone who is notoriously scattered, running off in several directions at one, this could well be the method to harness that energy into one focused beam.
I'm off to make my list and create my vision.
I am so very grateful we connected.
Bliss and blessings
from your FB friend in Atlanta
Jacqui
www.jacquelinegates.com
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