The exercise is to determine three words you’ll focus on for the following year. I first heard about it from Chris Brogan and then included a chapter in Amazing Things Will Happen . During the Pandemic, I focused on surviving and helping, so I didn’t participate. This year, as my winter break began and I was noodling over how to spend the weeks ahead, my three words came to me. I wrote them on a sticky note, and it has sat here on my desk collecting dusk and tempting me to change them. Typically this exercise finds me jotting down words in my Field Notes and trying to focus them down and clear out the extras over the course of many weeks. This is the first time the three popped out and instantly made sense. Perhaps I’m figuring out this thing called life? Sharpen As a lifelong learner, I strive to improve my skills continuously. I’m relatively new at teaching in the grand scheme of things. Teaching the same courses every semester means I’m constantly fine-tuning them. This year I want to sharpen them up.…