I don't make New Year's Resolutions.  For the past few years, I've used the time between years to do something of a personal retrospective on the year and choose three words that represent a theme to shape my goals and actions this year.

My three words for 2014 are balance, appreciate, and matter.

I'm not much of a New Year's Resolution guy. The end of the year is a good time to take stock of the past year and plan for the next, but they idea of letting the calendar dictate when to create REALLY BIG GOALS never made much sense.

A little more than years ago, I was inspired by a post from Chris Brogan describing how he invested time creating a theme for his year.

My three words for next year are Care, Simplify, Share.