My friend's advide

Choose a pithy, important-to-you word, like joy, play, prayer, friend. Pick a word, any word. Then notice where you see it, keep a journal of the quotes, the context in which that word turns up in your life in the course of a month, a season, a year. My friend writes that she and her daughter have each been doing this word journal, one  word per year, with astonishing results. What a fine way to open to possibility.