A New Year is upon us again! This is a major time for reflection, gratitude, goal-setting, being intentional, and being present. Many people practice various traditions such as eating 12 grapes under the table, wearing red panties, midnight kisses and toasts, eating a spoonful of black-eyes peas, walking around with suitcases to attract more traveling opportunities in the new year, making vision boards and more. Last year, I was challenged to start a new tradition: setting a mantra for my new year by defining my intentions with one word.
If you have never chosen a Word of the Year, I challenge you to select one now. Choose a word that embodies your intentions for this year. Use this word as a reminder of what's most important to you and let it be this year's theme. Last year, my word was action. This word truly became the theme of my 2022. During that year, I officially launched my website and business, quit a toxic work environment and found a new role that provides the work-life balance and support that I truly desired, finished my first E-book, and so much more!
We often asses our "Why?", but how often do we asses the "how?". Your WOTY can be something that summarizes all of your New Year's resolutions or it could just be what's most important to you and from there you can create smaller goals throughout the year that support your theme. Start to think of the person you would like to be, the things you would like to accomplish, the places you would like to go. Now, how do you get there? What needs to change? What are the characteristics of that person? Are they disciplined, are they risk-takers, are they bold, abundant, authentic, intentional?
Once you have come up with your WOTY, place it as the lock screen on your phone, put it in big bold letters on your vision board, make it your header on Twitter - whatever will keep it at the forefront of your mind. I've composed a (subjectively😅 ) short list of some of my favorite examples for you to choose from if you are still trying to narrow yours down, but remember that these are your goals. Take some time to think about what is really most important to you in 2023. Something that you know for a fact must be amplified in order for you to see the change that you desire or to check those goals off of your list. Share your Word of the Year below in the comments if you'd like. You may inspire someone else!
2023 Word of the Year Ideas
Abundance
Action (My 2022 word)
Adapt
Align
Allow
Anchor
Authentic
Aware
Balance
Be (present)
Become
Believer
Bloom
Bold
Boundaries
Brave
Breathe
Build
Calm
Centered
Challenge
Change
Commitment
Communicate
Compassion
Completion
Confidence
Connected
Conscious
Consistency (My 2023 word)
Courage
Creativity
Cultivate
Daring
Dedicated
Determination
Devotion
Diligence
Direction
Discipline
Dream
Ease
Elevate/Elevation
Embrace
Emerge
Empower
Enlightenment
Energy
Expansion
Express
Faith
Family
Finish
Fit
Focus
Forgiveness
Forward
Foundation
Free
Friendship
Fulfil
Gentle
Glow
Giving
Grace
Gratitude
Grounded
Grow/Growth
Harmony
Heal
Higher
Home
Honesty
Hope
Humility
Hustlers
Imagination
Immerse
Improvement
Integrity
Intentional
Intimacy
Intuition
Journey
Joy
Kind
Lead
Learn
Listen
Love
Magnify
Manifest
Mindful
Motion
Nourish
Nurture
Organize
Overcome
. Passion
Patience
Peace
Persistence
Positivity
Powerful
Present
Progress
Prosper
Purpose
Radiant
Receive
Reclaim
Relationships
Release
Renew
Reset
Resolute
Rise
Risk
Romance
Self-Care/ Self-love
Simplicity
Slow
Smile
Space
Speak
Strength
Teach
Thrive
Try
Unstoppable
Vision
Whole
Win
Yes
Zen
Zest
I know the caption say one word. Well I have a few words for 2023 lol
-Foundation -Consistency -Self-Care/ Self-love -Heal