Last year I jumped on the "word for the year" bandwagon. Inspired by Christine Kane's ever-motivating blog I chose structure as my 2009 guiding principle. It did work, mostly. The biggest achievement was of course getting my new studio in Woolwich though financial structuring and health structuring got in there too!

This year I wasn't going to do a yearly word again. That is, until Chris Brogan started blogging about a similar idea. 3 Words. This was after a few planning/goals posts I had been reading and keeping to hand for when I did my business action plan.

And here's what happened... Jo (Oakley) and I were sitting brainstorming, throwing out ideas, I showed her previous categories on my plans, and I showed her a printout of Chris's blogs as starting points for mindmapping. And there were his three words. I explained my one word from 2009. And I had decided secretly, a bit self-conscious about it, that I had a word I wanted to use. But it was quite a shocking word. An ambitious word. A selfish word.

With permission from Jo (sometimes you just need someone else to say "well, that's okay!" don't you?) I wrote down that word as a central point on my mind map.

MONEY

So there it is. It's out there. I'm tired of living on the line. Judgement be damned. And I'm American so that frank ambition is built in, I just have to rescue it from its little British cage.

I want to buy meals at M&S once in a while. :)




I have another word for 2010 too: Attention. This one actually isn't half as bad as it sounds. Attention for the paintings - it's all activities revolving around getting the work out and seen more and in front of the right people, more continual attention for it. Because if art isn't seen the rest of the plan fails!