I choose a word to focus on every year … and then I start collecting stuff.
🙂
In my defense, over the more than 10 years I have been engaging in the My One Word practice, I discovered that it’s very helpful to keep your word front and center by placing it in your field of view when it’s practical to do so. I love and drink a lot of coffee and tea on a normal working day, so a mug makes the perfect vehicle for my word.
I saw this mug at a local yard sale last week.
I was walking up and down the rows of tables when the bright yellow color beckoned. [Disclaimer: Yellow is my favorite color, so my eyes are always primed to see it.]
I walked up to the table and when I saw my word on the mug, that was it. Sold!
The man behind the table approached.
“We’re having a big sale today; everything’s really cheap,” he said.
“How much is it?” I thought he’d say maybe fifty cents, it being such a big sale and all
“Only one dollar,” he said.
“That’s not cheap,” I said to my husband. “That’s what they cost at the Goodwill* store.”
He asked me what I expected, after I picked up the mug and smiled my head off. As if there was any chance I wasn’t going to pay him whatever he asked for it.
I love it, though, so it was worth it.
A dollar well spent.
*NOTE: I found that little angel statue at Goodwill. I will be writing more about this in an upcoming blog post.
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Karen Creamer
