Picking a “Word of the Year” has become a popular practice for setting intentions and guiding personal growth. It is an alternative to claiming New Year’s resolutions! As we step into 2024, the tradition of selecting a word to identify our aspirations and focus for the year ahead continues to gain momentum. This simple yet powerful concept involves choosing a single word that serves as a touchstone, a source of inspiration, and a reminder of our goals and values throughout the year.
Choosing the word “Ease” as my guiding word for 2024 was a deliberate and thoughtful decision. After reflecting on the past year and considering my values, intentions, and goals for the upcoming year, I realized that I wanted to approach 2024 with a greater sense of tranquility and simplicity. The word “Ease” embodies my desire to navigate through life with less stress and more flow, to find efficiency without sacrificing peace, and to prioritize well-being and balance in all aspects of my life. By selecting “Ease” as my word for 2024, I aim to infuse my days with a sense of calm and grace, allowing space for joy, growth, and meaningful connections. This word will serve as a gentle reminder to embrace simplicity, release unnecessary tension, and welcome the beauty of each moment throughout the year.
- Abundance
- Adventure
- Align
- Authentic
- Available
- Aware
- Balance
- Become
- Better
- Bless
- Bold
- Breathe
- Bright
- Calm
- Celebrate
- Centered
- Challenge
- Change
- Commitment
- Compassion
- Confidence
- Connect
- Creativity
- Cultivate
- Daring
- Dedicated
- Delight
- Devotion
- Discipline ** (my word for 2018)
- Distance
- Dream
- Embrace
- Emerge
- Empower
- Expansion
- Express
- Faith
- Feast
- Fit
- Focus
- Forgiveness
- Foster
- Free
- Friendship
- Glow
- Giving
- Grace
- Gratitude
- Grounded
- Honesty
- Hope
- Humility
- Integrity
- Intentional
- Intuition
- Journey
- Joy
- Kind
- Learn
- Listen
- Love
- Magnify
- Meek
- Mindful
- Motion
- Nourish
- Nurture
- Organize
- Passion
- Peace
- Permission
- Persistence
- Play
- Polish
- Power
- Present
- Progress
- Radiant
- Recovery
- Relationships
- Release
- Reset
- Resolute
- Rise
- Risk
- Savvy
- Service
- Simplicity
- Slow
- Smile
- Space
- Sparkle
- Strong
- Teach
- Thrive
- Tranquil
- Whole
- Yes
- Zen
- Zest
This list was retrieved from a blog post written by Elisabeth McKnight, here is the link: https://elisabethmcknight.com/word-of-the-year-ideas/
I hope you have fun picking a “Word of the Year” for 2024 and share it with our community!
As Elisabeth recommends:
Remember, once you’ve picked a WORD OF THE YEAR you can
-set it as your phone background
-write it on your mirror (in dry erase marker)
-print it and it put it up all over the house
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I’m going for cultivate. Balance and Listen were also on the short list. How does cultivate apply? To grow? To make it better? To pursue? To try to acquire? To work really hard at? To foster? To prepare? Is it all just about ME? No, it’s broader and way bigger than me (which after all of this holiday food and cheer is no small feat…..)
I want to cultivate my responses/reactions, my relationships, my interactions in my world. Aim to be more thoughtful and deliberate. Permit and cultivate peace. Encourage balance. And for the love of Pete, LISTEN! Really listen carefully. In short, let me be the person my dog thinks I am.