What is your Word?
by Victoria Anderson
I recently read that the secret to understanding a city and it’s people is to learn what is the Word of the Street? According to this author, every city has a single word that defines it and identifies most of the people that live there. For example, many may agree that the word for the cities below might be :
Los Angeles = Success
New York = Achieve
Vegas = Debauchery
The gist is that every city, and its people, have a word which defines it. For example, when many people think of New York they may think Achieve; or for Vegas one might think Debauchery or Sin City!!!
My word? Frankly, I struggled to come up with just one! And though I’m still tossing it around a bit, the closest I’ve come to being able to define ‘my word’ is…solution-ize.
I am forever: thinking, reflecting, analyzing, doing–with most things my mind works in what I call a ‘4 step process’ : 1) analyze to understand 2) problem-solve to generate alternatives 3) “solution-ize” and 4) resolve or compromise. Oh, and I am so prone to over stimulating, lol.
Let me tell you, this can be kind of annoying–even to me– given that being 3 ‘thoughts’ ahead takes me out of the present.
Don’t get me wrong. There are times when this works and makes sense. However, there are plenty of times when it SO does not. And it causes me to miss or overlook the details, or focus too much on the future.
I think there is a serious need for me to think/do less, and just BE more. My goal–yes, I’m aware this may defeat the purpose of thinking less just a tiny bit–is to have a new word ‘define’ me . If defining it, means I will be more of it, then this is at least a step in the right direction. Right?? So, what is that new word, you ask?
If this is, in fact the case, then my “in progress word” is:
BE
…as in: present, in-the-now, at-hand, in-the-moment–fully and completely here and aware of the current stuff I am doing or experiencing.
With that, what is your word?!
Victoria is a Human Resources Professional, and currently works as a HR Manager for General Mills—Yoplait Division. Prior to joining General Mills, she spent 4 years as a HR Manager with Pepsi. Victoria received her Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in HR Management & Labor Relations; and her Bachelors of Science in Industrial/Organization Psychology from ISU.
For kicks, she enjoys spending traveling, writing, spending time with friends, and trying just about anything new.
