The power of words: how a word theme for the year ahead can create an intentional year for 2025

I started to create a theme for my year using a single word a couple of years ago. It was a way of being more intentional with my actions. 2022 was YES. This came about after years of having to say no during Covid times and while completing my nutrition diploma. Saying YES allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and try new things, I learned to surf this year something I now absolutely love and forms part of my seasonal year. 2023’s word was INVESTMENT. I honored this word by thinking when opportunities and ideas presented themselves to me “Is this an investment in myself?”. The word INVESTMENT aligned with investing in my BSc top degree, dedicating time to my writing, investing in my soul in Bali and my yoga practice, and investing in those I love dearly. 2024 was guided by the word CORE. What is fundamental to me, to my values? Living and working in alignment with my core to keep me balanced for what is going to be a huge year of shifting direction and closing not only a chapter but finishing a book.

The key benefits of having a word to follow rather than resolutions are:

1. Simplicity and focus.

2. Flexibility rather than concrete rules. Allowing for personal growth aligned with your values as the year progresses. Helping to shift your mindset and become intentional with your daily habits, actions, and decisions. Driving you towards a deeper understanding of yourself and creating lasting change.

Here are a few words you may like to consider. I suggest choosing a word that resonates with you following on from your 2024 reflections. Try to go with your gut feelings when choosing your word:

• Appreciation

• Authenticity

• Awareness

• Balance

• Be

• Bloom

• Boundaries

• Compassion

• Compromise

• Confidence

• Conscious

• Considerate

• Consistency

• Dare

• Dream

• Education

• Elevate

• Embrace

• Emerge

• Enough

• Enthusiasm

• Family

• Fearless

• Finish

• Flourish

• Flow

• Focus

• Forward

• Gentle

• Glow

• Grace

• Gratitude

• Grounded

• Grow

• Imagine

• Inspiration

• Journey

• Joy

• Learn

• Less

• Love

• Nature

• Now

• Nurture

• Observe

• Pause

• Persevere

• Perspective

• Routine

• Self

• Rest

• Shine

• Thrive

• Trust

• Vision

• Worth

“ It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish? Paradigm shift.”

— Brene Brown

My word for 2025 is TOGETHER, this word can take on many connotations and I plan to embrace them all

Much love,

Katie xx

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