I own it, I didn't, not proud that was me, and when I face it a little dignity, not looking for excuse me, I just want to be free from power, weakness head on me.

Free, free, free, free, free, free.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to the bubble hour. It is February, 2018, February 3rd. It is a snowy day here in Canada. I'm home by myself and I'm very excited to be back with my headset on and recording some episodes for you.

So as you may have noticed, I took the month of January off.

I just wanted to give myself a little bit of the gift of time and perspective on things.

It was a great thing to do as it turned out.

Sometimes, you know, we just get our head down and we keep on, keep it on, and keep doing the same thing.

And I just really wanted to pause and give thought to what I do, why I do it, how I do it, if I like doing it, if I should be doing it, if I'm doing it well, if I could do it differently,

generally overthinking things as usual.

But over the space of that month I took off, I saw a lot of other recovery friends,

other bloggers, podcasters, and people in my online group were posting their word of the year. And this is kind of a popular exercise that a lot of us do, where we come up with the word

of the year and that comes back to our intention for that year.

And so in past years, I've used words like implementation was when my words is, I like I'm using all this stuff this year I'm

going to start using it and that was a that was a really good word to keep coming back to and in

fact Ellie bless her heart even made a bracelet for me with the word implementation hammered onto it,

and I could just look at that all the time.

So my word of the year for 2018 is create.

And as you may have heard me say, I've sort of wound down my business in the last few years

and I'm transitioning into sort of semi-retirement and this gives me time and space

to create. And so that not only means creating some new episodes of this show and putting some

energy into keeping this show fresh and as well as blogging, but I've also been doing things like

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