Word of the Year- 2025

[AnnieClaus]

What word speaks to you for 2025?

I have been thinking about the word, "Home."

Now that my social calendar is lighter and I'm not running up to Phoenix for weekends, I really want to focus on my "Home."
It is the place I love the most, my shelter from the storm.
I would like to make it as cozy and inviting as possible.
It's a bit of an older home (80's) and I am seeing where it is starting to need some TLC.
I would really like to focus and work on my "Home" in 2025.

 

[Lana]

Annie, I like your choice and theory!

Still thinking for mine!

 

[missjane]

I never chose one last year. Nothing ever really spoke to me as being the one.

I'm having a health issue that I go on the 30th to find out more about. It will have an influence on the direction in which my thoughts will flow.

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

Thanks Annie for getting us started with this.
I am mulling around a word, will give it a bit more thought before I decide.

 

[Holiday_Mom]

I completely forgot about the word of the year and need to give it some thought.

 

[Ahorsesoul]

I am thinking I’ll use ‘Flying’. Lana’s post today about Flylady hit me with this word. Flying as in swooping from area to area not as in fast. Finishing up on things that need it.

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

I have decided on Purpose.
With retirement looming I want to make sure that I get good value out of the year. I want to make sure that whatever I do I do fully and with good intentions, get things done. Whatever I set out to do I will do it with Purpose.

 

[AnnieClaus]

For those working on their word for 2025.
I wanted to share this list of questions that my productivity system (full focus) sent out.
I thought they were very good questions.

10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before the New Year-
To Help you reflect on the past year and prepare an intentional and successful 2025

1. What was the best part of the the past year?
2. Who am I really wanting to spend more time with?
3. What has been making me feel more like myself lately?
4. What's one thing I want to let go of from this year?
5. What do I need to show up as my best self?
6. What word or picture do I want to define my year?
7. What's one fear I want to overcome this year?
8. What contribution do I most want to make this year?
9. What would make me feel proud at the end of the year?
10. In 2025, wouldn't it be fun if _____________________?

 

[luludou]

I was looking at peoples's choices of words and phrases for 2025 and I think I like this one I do my best, still not 100% sure but it sounded right to me.

 

[Holiday_Mom]

For those working on their word for 2025.
I wanted to share this list of questions that my productivity system (full focus) sent out.
I thought they were very good questions.

10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before the New Year-
To Help you reflect on the past year and prepare an intentional and successful 2025

1. What was the best part of the the past year?
2. Who am I really wanting to spend more time with?
3. What has been making me feel more like myself lately?
4. What's one thing I want to let go of from this year?
5. What do I need to show up as my best self?
6. What word or picture do I want to define my year?
7. What's one fear I want to overcome this year?
8. What contribution do I most want to make this year?
9. What would make me feel proud at the end of the year?
10. In 2025, wouldn't it be fun if _____________________?

Oooo... These are good questions. I am going to use them now for reflection. I think I have a word but I am going to sit on it a bit longer to see if I change my mind.

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

For those working on their word for 2025.
I wanted to share this list of questions that my productivity system (full focus) sent out.
I thought they were very good questions.

10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before the New Year-
To Help you reflect on the past year and prepare an intentional and successful 2025

1. What was the best part of the the past year?
2. Who am I really wanting to spend more time with?
3. What has been making me feel more like myself lately?
4. What's one thing I want to let go of from this year?
5. What do I need to show up as my best self?
6. What word or picture do I want to define my year?
7. What's one fear I want to overcome this year?
8. What contribution do I most want to make this year?
9. What would make me feel proud at the end of the year?
10. In 2025, wouldn't it be fun if _____________________?

Annie,
very inciteful questions and ones that I will ponder.

 

[Ahorsesoul]

I just made my WOY LIST going back to 2008. I have two missing, 2010 and 2008. I just read all the WOY posts. Saw some names of posters that we have not seen here for many years. Was a lot of fun to see the older posts.

 

[Holiday_Mom]

I thought I had my word of the year until I heard different word at Mass last Sunday - "Rediscover." That word has been sitting with me all week and the other word has faded.

2024 was in it's own way a year of endings. My word was "Complete." I wanted to complete the incomplete projects, things, etc. in my life. If it didn't get completed, then it was no longer important to me and I tossed it aside. In 2025, I want to "Rediscover" the forgotten side of me. What is really important to me and just me? No outside influence... something that I would do alone if no one else was interested...

What is joy? What is beauty? What is being fully present and alive? How do I rediscover myself, joy, beauty, being fully present and alive? That's what I want to tap into this year.

 

[Lori K]

While I've been lounging and doing the "woe is me" for the past 10 days, I've given a lot of thought to 2025 and what I want my life to be like in the coming year. A lot has changed in the last decade, most importantly my social circle. I need to do some "cleaning" on FB and weed out connections that are no longer relevant to my current life. But weed carries such a negative connotation for me, as does cull, delete, eliminate ... I want positivity. I thought about sunrise or dawn, but what I want goes beyond that. So, I've selected garden. I want to tend my personal garden, sowing seeds of positivity, weeding out negativity, tending new plants (friendships), and looking for new flowers to bloom. Does that make sense?

 

[Holiday_Mom]

While I've been lounging and doing the "woe is me" for the past 10 days, I've given a lot of thought to 2025 and what I want my life to be like in the coming year. A lot has changed in the last decade, most importantly my social circle. I need to do some "cleaning" on FB and weed out connections that are no longer relevant to my current life. But weed carries such a negative connotation for me, as does cull, delete, eliminate ... I want positivity. I thought about sunrise or dawn, but what I want goes beyond that. So, I've selected garden. I want to tend my personal garden, sowing seeds of positivity, weeding out negativity, tending new plants (friendships), and looking for new flowers to bloom. Does that make sense?

It makes sense to me. From a spiritual standpoint, there are a lot of references to gardening/gardens in the Bible.

 

[ChristmasPir8]

Hi ladies. I had been thinking on this a little. I could not remember what my word was for last year but also knew I did nothing towards it either. Mindfulness kept rolling around in my mind. My eating and spending are 2 things that I have not been Mindful of thus extra weight and so much extra junk in the house.
DH and I really want to move to Fla ans after our last trip it just solidified it even more. So some purposeful choices need to be made and action behind choices.

Whike I was thinking on a word I went to last year's post and my choices last word was also Mindful think it's ok to do a redo of last year? Ha ha
I'll think a little more to see if I have a similar word that works that still hits home.

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

So, I've selected garden. I want to tend my personal garden, sowing seeds of positivity, weeding out negativity, tending new plants (friendships), and looking for new flowers to bloom. Does that make sense?

Lori, this is an amazing word. It describes perfectly what you are wanting to achieve.

 

[Lana]

I have had it narrowed down to 3 or 4 words the last couple of weeks and keep returning to my first choice.

It is cultivate.

Cultivate means to nurture and help grow something, or work to make something better. Some examples of how you can cultivate things in life are:

Cultivate a friendship: You can cultivate a friendship by seeking out influential people to be friends with.

Cultivate a hobby: You can cultivate a hobby by giving it special attention.

Cultivate your values: You can cultivate your values by understanding and reflecting on them.

Cultivate your purpose: You can cultivate your purpose by noticing how you apply your values to everyday tasks.

Cultivate grateful living: You can cultivate grateful living by practicing the "Stop. Look. Go." approach.

The word cultivate implies a level of care and attention to detail that is similar to gardening.

To cultivate is to nurture and help grow. Farmers cultivate crops, fundraising professionals cultivate donors, and celebrities cultivate their images. When you cultivate something, you work to make it better. Originally, the word referred only to crops that required tilling, but the meaning has widened.

Cultivation is a form of practice and harnesses the energy of purposefulness. We can cultivate most anything in our lives, depending on how we offer our attention and focus our intentions. In cultivating, we: Tend. Nurture. Develop.

There are areas in my life I need to tend to. I need to nurture myself and my family and I need to develop ways to simplify things. (remove clutter---redevelop what I think I need or want for the future)

Sorry so long!

 

[Lori K]

I have had it narrowed down to 3 or 4 words the last couple of weeks and keep returning to my first choice.

It is cultivate.

We are sooooo on the same page! Exactly what I was going for with selecting garden.

 

[Ahorsesoul]

Hi ladies. I had been thinking on this a little. I could not remember what my word was for last year but also knew I did nothing towards it either. Mindfulness kept rolling around in my mind. My eating and spending are 2 things that I have not been Mindful of thus extra weight and so much extra junk in the house.
DH and I really want to move to Fla ans after our last trip it just solidified it even more. So some purposeful choices need to be made and action behind choices.

Whike I was thinking on a word I went to last year's post and my choices last word was also Mindful think it's ok to do a redo of last year? Ha ha
I'll think a little more to see if I have a similar word that works that still hits home.

Disney would work since it would remind you of what you are working towards, a wonderful home filled with happiness and excitement.