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I keep seeing these pictures of peoples’ apartments, dorm rooms, bedrooms, etc. with these different words spelled out in big letters. While I think words like ‘live’ and ‘love’, ‘peace’, ‘happiness’, ‘joy’, ‘friends’ and ‘family’ are all great words, they do nothing for me in terms of motivation. Instead I have decided to take the road less traveled, as I so often do, and choose words that mean something to me but little to others (in fact I get many questions from people about what the word in my living room even means!)

–noun Slang.

1.     vigor; verve; pep.

2.     courage and aggressiveness; nerve.

3.     skill; know-how.

–noun Informal.

1.     initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he’ll make a success of himself.

2.     courage; spunk; guts: It takes gumption to quit a high-paying job.

3.     common sense; shrewdness.