This is question #1 of the Year End Countdown Challenge held in Dec 2012, where we count down to the new year with 13 reflective questions. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Welcome to Day 13 of the 2013 Countdown Challenge! :D
2013 Countdown, Question #1…
Questions for the 13-day, 13-question countdown so far:
- #13: How has your year of 2012 been? | 191 Comments | Post Your Response
- #12: What are 12 things you love about year 2012? | 129 Comments | Post Your Response
- #11: What were your lowest points this year? Why? | 140 Comments | Post Your Response
- #10: What lessons have you learned from those low points? | 92 Comments | Post Your Response
- #9: What could you have done better this year? (Be honest with yourself) | 75 Comments | Post Your Response
- #8: What can you do to ensure you don’t repeat the same behaviors in 2013? | 64 Comments | Post Your Response
- #7: What are you most grateful for in 2012? | 69 Comments | Post Your Response
- #6: What are your biggest accomplishments this year? | 67 Comments | Post Your Response
- #5: What lessons have you gained in 2012? | 53 Comments | Post Your Response
- #4: What are your biggest goals for 2013? | 65 Comments | Post Your Response
- #3: How do you plan to realize those goals (from #4)? | 33 Comments | Post Your Response
- #2: What are you going to do to make 2013 your best year ever? | 19 Comments | Post Your Response
If you have not posted your responses yet, please do so before proceeding with today’s question.
The final question, Question #1, is,
What is your motto for 2013?
Your Task
- Reflect and answer today’s question. There’s no word limit – whether minimum or maximum. Write as few or as many words as you want. It’s all up to what you want to express!
- Share your answer. After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there.
- Check out other participants’ answers. Other participants will be sharing their answers too, so feel free to read and reply to their answers.
Look forward to reading your answers! :)
End of the 2013 Countdown Challenge
This concludes the 2013 Countdown Challenge. I would like to thank all of you for your amazing participation throughout these 13 days of the challenge. I’ll be posting *MY* own year-end review later in the day, so stay tuned for that. :) Update – It’s up now! Read: My 2012 in Review :) New Milestones, Creation of My Self-Identity, and New Beginnings
Happy new year 2013 everyone!! Hope you guys have a fantastic new year ahead! :)
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Live in the present is going to be my motto. I need to do what makes me happy now. While I can still keep an eye on the future, I need to stop stressing about it and do what makes me happy now – not what **might** make me happy in a year or five years time or whatever. For example, right now I want to be at home with my family so I’m going to be at home with my family. Then if I’m fed up of living at home, I’m going to go live somewhere else. There are so many opportunities in life, but we do have to live it in the present instead of getting all caught up in what’s going to happen one day, maybe. One of my biggest mistakes this year was getting all stressed out about how things were going to be in the future to the extent that I messed up my present a lot. Never again!
P.S. Happy New Year for tonight everyone!!
“Let go of the past and just keep moving forward even I stumble”
:heart: There is no set path. Just follow your heart and let your heart see what your eyes cannot. :heart:
Happy New Year Celes! :) :dance:
My motto will be “Live each day fully – live NOW, ACT now”
No more long terms plans and putting things off till the next day
Live and love now
Keep in touch with my family and love ones and tell them how much I love them
Love myself and take care of my health and well being
I had enrolled for this challenge and had been a few days late in starting. Unfortunately, I lost my mother for Christmas and could not participate fully.
Wish you all a very happy new year 2013!!
Hi,
My motto is to improve myself as a person and follow my dreams. Wish you all a very happy new year :)
Nice motto. I also want to improve! Happy New Year! :D
I got this quote from movie I watched last night “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”.. fantastic movie for anyone who is in that transitional portion of their lives, from being an adult to becoming and “older adult” .(this is me).
The quote is this: “Everything will be all right in the end and if it’s not all right, then it’s not yet the end.”
The moment I heard that quote, I was ignited with a sense of peace and I knew it was the perfect quote for me in moving forward in my life.
I hope that other’s will find it as inspiring as I have.
May God bless all of us this year and in the years to come. :heart:
Hi Mary thanks for sharing the message of the movie “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”.
I shall remind myself to watch it.
I used to have this mantra ‘Everything is Perfect.’ and it worked well for me, like what you shared
about feeling a sense of peace.
Cheers! Wishing you A Very Happy and Best 2013! :hug: :D
Dream Big.
Work hard, Volunteer hard, Play hard, Spend whatever time I have with my family and important ones! :D
My motto is be healthy and successful so that I can help others.
Also, after realizing my injury and other mishaps that happen throughout year 2012, I am grateful that I am still alive and practise more kindness to others. This however I will not apply to local environment businesses, as I have realized my kindness had been misused by trusted parties and I will practise “kindness with caution and accountability” to ensure this journey does not repeat itself.
Having said all this, wish all PE members gratitude and have a cheerful New Year 2013.
Hi Elton,
An idea for you – work on finding people who reciprocate your kindness, I think trust is built up in layers. I feel some people instantly, whist other people want to change and need time to adapt and develop different ways of thinking. Clarity is critical, in being clear every time, we protect not only ourselves but others as well because we know exactly what we want, if the person can’t deliver what we want, we can move on to someone who can. Start small with things of little or no significance and build from there.
Best wishes for 2013 as well!
Hi Bob,
Thanks for your advice. I really appreciate.it. For me and I think some of my friends here realized it too that I practice kindness constantly and trust, I think for me the breaking part is that I seem to attract wrong people that I am helping with, and not able to help the right people due to certain physical limitation caused by wrongness act. I did past life regression on myself and have found something pertinent that caused this, and hence will prepare self discovery journey to see how best to address the situation for better.
Hi Elton,
Here is a link that goes to Michael Port’s Blog all about Networking and building relationships. I think it is a strong and simple method that will help you Elton:
http://www.michaelport.com/blog/tag/networking/#
wow this is an impressive article. I’m interested in seeing how it’ll work. thanks for showing this ;)
All the best to you Elton ! :dance: :clap:
Likewise Dolly, I wish you the same too and seem we are constantly connected everywhere we are.
Keep it balanced. Remember if your giving 110% in one area there is a deficit in every other area.
My motto is Be Prepared, and don’t settle for less ;)
Give everything you’ve got so there are no regrets later. Happy New Year! :D
exactly dude. when everything is prepared, everything just flows together seemlessly and that’s how I like to play things ;)
Enjoy the moment, be zen!
Life is Magic.
I’m not sure if I heard this somewhere or just made it up. But its something I need to believe.
I need to believe that there is more to life than mundane routine.
I need to believe I can wake up every morning and be excited about living because I know the universe has infinite possibilities and I can’t wait to experience them.
I need to believe I can master my life, ride the waves as opposed to being overwhelmed.
I need to believe to a point where life will seem…. almost magical…
LIFE IS MAGIC!!!
Hmm…my motto for 2013: Strive for excellence, while truly enjoying my life, my friends/parents/teachers and above all, myself.
My 2013 Motto Is ”Grow With Each Day”!!!
Step by step. Happy New Year! :D
Write it down and do it!
This isn’t a new motto, but it worked so well the first year that imma bringin’ it back! If I keep lists, and stick to them I get so much more done!
My motto will be
“I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY EMANATION”
This means that I will be more mindful what energy, thoughts, and intentions that I am giving out to immediate environment, my community, and the world.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. :) I love this quote I always have it around me and also to smile and take chances, life’s too short to miss an oppertunity :) Happy new year everyone!!! :)
Hi Rosie I love this too – Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.! :clap:
“inch by inch and everything’s a cinch.”
I don’t know who coined this phrase but I love it. I am committed to making small progress each day throughout 2013 on my big goals. I may be making minor progress day by day but after months all that progress will add up and I will achieve what I want.
Nice one Matt “inch by inch and everything’s a cinch.” :clap:
My motto. Funny that this is today’s question…. My motto came to me earlier today.
Do it with purpose.
Meaning when I do something, do it, commit to it and stay focused on it until it’s done. Dive in feet first, tackle it head on, and don’t allow for distractions.
I’ll have to go with something I’ve only recently started to realise…
“Happiness is a choice” :)
I realised this at sixteen and the following years were absolute magic. I’ve somehow lost sight of this fact through difficult times in the recent years, but it is true, happiness is a choice.
Thank you for inspiring me. I’m hoping I can find my way back onto that path. :) Wishing you all the best for the new year!
Take chances.
I will not allow myself to sit back and do nothing to further my career/work skills. I will ‘take the bull by the horn’ and learn what skills are necessary to move ahead, no matter how nervous it makes me.
Do more. Live more. Be joyful and happy.
DO, GET, BE: BETTER :)
Simple yet a motivating and inspiring motto! Happy New Year! :D
I love this motto created by Barrie Davenport: Live boldly and bloom to your fullest potential by taking small but fearless daily actions in the direction of your dream
I think it captures the essence of what I’m trying to create, so I’ll definitely try to live by this in 2013 :D
Love it. What a beautiful quote :)
Have added it to my quote book!
My moto for 2013 is; Just do it! :dance:
Good one :D
My quote for 2013 is:
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE, AND LEARN!!!!
Simple & beautiful!
Smile from the inside towards the outside. :) Paired with Hold your chin up at all times&Breath.
Happy New Year to everyone!!
I love your quote Lina “Smile from the inside towards the outside” I’m putting this with my list of favourite quotes.
My motto is BE Myself and Live my best life.
Thumbs up for living our best lives ever next year! Happy New Year! :D
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