Find Three Words

From the weekly mastermind call I’m on, the goal — Mercury was still Retrograde at the time — the goal was to pick three words for the coming year, words, goals, definitions.

As an example, how about, “Focus Action System?”

“Ever noticed your brain goes on without you?”

Pick three words for the year —

My first choice? “Build Publish Finish.”

I work to launch material timed with planetary motions, and even though Mercury was in Retrograde, I did launch the new design, which was less of a totally new design, and more along the lines of rearranging extant building blocks for the main site.

New skin, same material, slightly better display, I think. It was “live” — after extensive backend testing — for about 6 or 8 hours before a client emails, “Where do I login?”

Not much good if there is no mechanism for getting paid.

All corrected — now.

However, I have worked hard at making this easy. Easy for me, as author, and easy for clients, as consumers. Easy to administrate, too.

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So the first word? “Easy.”

Easy on the eyes, easy to administrate, easy to use, easy to create. Thinking about it as I go along, I get the process reversed, jotting down notes as I go, but the first word in the sequence will be Easy.

As an adjunct, working towards the next word, the term “Simplicity” comes to mind; however, there’s almost a redundancy with that, as easy carries the simple as an implication. “Simple,” and “simplicity, are contained, sort of a column underneath Easy.

As I've noted before, a lot of work goes into making this look easy.

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The other word? In a mindfulness manner?

The second word is “Pause.”

I toyed with “perseverance,” but that introduces the notion of struggle. Not a fan of struggling. Still, the well-timed pause, according to Mark Twain, is quite worth it, and perhaps, even more valuable than noise.

After sawing through the last Mercury in Retrograde, the trick, success is rewarded by a pause.

Simply stated?

Pause is the second word.

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Third word: “Connection.”

I was looking, trying to connect the dots after a weird afternoon — most of my afternoons are weird — perhaps weirder than most, but this isn’t a race. So the word that popped in my mind, as I was surveying some statistics and working on material for an upcoming horoscope?

Connection, as the stuff that connects all of us, it is more important now, than ever before.

Find Three Words

Full Moon. No longer Mercury in Retrograde. Find three words to define the new year?

Easy.

Pause.

Connection.