Year 14 of choosing ONE WORD to guide my year has begun. When I was younger, New Year’s Eve was about parties, kissing someone at midnight, whooping it up. Now that I’m “mature” I look forward to revealing my ONE WORD.
My word for 2025 is ENOUGH!
I believe that documenting the ONE WORD experience increases the value of the activity for the present year, as well as providing a history to review at some point in the future.
This year I am going to document my journey via weekly blog posts. I believe it will keep me accountable for examining how the word is showing up in my life every week. I don’t expect it to do anything for anyone else – that’s okay. Writing about it every week, even if I’m the only one that reads it is ENOUGH!
For Week 1, I decided to generate a list of questions for my ONE WORD. These questions require reflection and deep thought, so I don’t expect to have answers yet, but I do think they provide paths which I may wander down over the next 52 weeks.
1. How do you define enough?
2. What does it feel like to be enough?
3. Where do you have more than enough?
4. Where do you not have enough?
5. How do you get enough if you need more?
6. What do you need less of?
7. What can you do with the excess?
8. When is it time to walk away because someone or something is more than enough?
9. What parts of your life can you explore to see if you have enough?
10. What are you willing to do to get enough?
11. What motivates you to get enough?
12. Do you feel that you are enough?
13. What makes you feel like you’re not enough?
14. What can you do to feel you are enough?
15. How can you help others have enough?
16. Who do you know who needs to hear they are enough?
What questions might you ask yourself about your ONE WORD?
I also searched for some cool pictures that I could paste in the front of my planner (yes, I still use a paper planner) as a daily reminder.
My husband and I share our ONE WORD with each other. We also write it on a chalkboard in our kitchen so we see it every day. I’m thinking that we might have a brief Sunday evening conversation about our ONE WORD – maybe share an example of where the word popped up in our lives that week.
How do you keep your ONE WORD alive and present in your life?