Take your time and a pen and paper and go through this series of questions and listen for your word for the year. If you already have a word chosen, the questions might help expand what that word might mean for you.
- When you look forward into 2025, is there anything that you think you might need to navigate it well? Is there a word that would encapsulate that?
- When you consider how you have managed to cope in 2024, is there anything you think you might need more of, or that would be useful for your heart that may have dwindled this past year? Can you put that into one word?
- Imagine you need an upgrade (like your phone). Is there something about how you functioned in 2024 that could be improved and would allow you to move through 2025 in a healthier and more dynamic way? Is there a word for that?
- With the word you have landed with, consider these questions to help you understand what this “signpost” might be good for?
- Will this word inspire an action that I will take? If so, what action(s) and in what context would I use this word, and the action it calls me to?
- Is this word a connecting word? And does that determine how you will enter and experience relationships?
- Is the word a posture you can take? Is this a position you can situate yourself in that determines how you enter difficulties, or even just new circumstances?
I encourage you to find a way to keep the word in your space. Maybe it’s on your computer, or phone, or you use soap to write it on your bathroom mirror. Maybe you spell it out with magnets on your fridge.
Keep it in your line of sight, and when you come to a place where you sense some uncertainty, consider how that word may help you in your processing.