350+ Word Of The Year Ideas

350+ Word Of The Year Ideas



Tired of New Years Resolutions? Why not try a Word of the Year instead?

You’re not the only one who’s over setting big goals only to fall off track by January 14th.

It’s definitely a great thing to know what you want! However, the problem with resolutions is that people tend to go too big or make too many. They have to rely on motivation to get going and keep going. Or they have to be 100% perfect at it or else call themselves a failure.

Not to mention, the darkness of January just isn’t a time when we’re feeling energetic! (If you live in the northern hemisphere that is.)

So rest assured, the reason why your New Year’s resolutions could never stick in the past isn’t a negative reflection of you. It doesn’t mean you’re lazy or stupid or whatever.

It just means that maybe you need a whole new approach.

Enter: The Word of the Year


What Is A Word Of The Year?


What if, instead of laundry list of perfectionist goals, you picked a theme or word instead?

A word of the year is exactly that: a word or theme that you can use to help guide and inspire you for the year ahead.


Word Of The Year Success Story


For a few years my word was (Being) Seen. In case you didn’t know, there were a few years on this blog when I didn’t even show my own face! I’ve come a long way since then and part of that is due to that particular Word of the Year.


Why Use A Word of The Year Instead of A Resolution?


A word of the year is a kinder, more gentle approach to self-improvement. If you pick the right word, it’s a simple way to create total clarity in your life around almost everything. When you know what’s truly important, it’s easier to make the right choices and will keep you on track for what you really want. (And that’s priceless!)

Of course, there’s also no rule that you can’t do BOTH resolutions and a word of the year, so you do you, boo!


Word of The Year Journal Prompts


Sometimes it’s very easy to come up with a word of the year to choose. Think about these journal prompts to help you find the perfect theme for your next year.

  • What do you want more of?
  • What do you want less of? (Then think of a positive word to help.)
  • What would change the game for you in money, love, success, etc.?

    • Looking back over the last year (or longer), what’s something you want to improve or do differently?

  • Think about an area of your life that isn’t so great. If you could give yourself ONE word to reflect on to help you fix it, what would that be?

Any word that makes you feel excited, expansive, calm, or maybe even a little bit scared is a great choice!

Still feel stuck for inspiration? No problem! Just check out the list of 350+ words below to help you find the perfect choice.


350+ Word of The Year List Ideas

A

Absolve
Abundance/Abundant
Acceptance
Achievement
Action
Adapt
Advancement
Adventure
Align/Alignment
Alive
Allowing
Amazing
Ambition
Anchor
Appreciate
Ascend
Assertive
Attention
Authentic
Awaken
Awesome

B

Balance
Beauty/Beautiful
Begin
Behold
Be/Being
Believe
Belong
Best
Better
Bigger
Bliss/Blissful
Bloom
Bold
Boss
Bounce
Boundaries
Bounty
Brave/Bravery
Breathe
Breathe
Bridge
Bright
Build

C

Calm
Capture
Care
Career
Caring
Celebrate
Centered
Challenge
Change
Charisma
Chase
Clarity
Clear
Co-creation
Comfort
Committed/Commitment
Communicate/Communication
Compassion
Completion
Compose
Compromise
Confidence
Connect
Connection
Conscious
Consistency
Consistent
Contribute
Courage
Create
Creation
Creative
Creativity
Cultivate

D

Daring
Declutter
Decrease
Dedicate/Dedication
Deliberate
Delight
Determination
Devoted/Devotion
Diligence
Direction
Discernment/Discerning
Discipline
Discover
Dream

E

Ease/Easy
Educate/Education
Elevate/Elevation
Embody/Embodied/Embodiment
Embraced
Emerge
Encourage/Encouragement
Energy
Enjoy/Enjoyment
Enlightenment/Enlightened
Enough
Enthusiasm/Enthusiastic
Environment
Empowerment
Escalate
Evolve/Evolution
Examine
Excite/Excitement
Expand/Expansion
Experience
Explore/Exploration

F

Fair/Fairness
Faith
Family
Fast
Favorite
Fearless
Finish
Fitness
Flourish
Flow
Fly
Focus
Forgive
Forward
Foster
Foundation
Free/Freedom
Friend/Friendship/Friendly
Fulfill/Fulfilling
Fun
Future

G

Generous/Generosity
Gentle/Gently
Give/Giving
Glorious
Glory
Glow/Glow-up
Go
Goals
Grace
Gracious
Gratitude
Grounded
Grow/Growth

H

Habit
Happy/Happiness
Harmony
Heal/Healed/Healing
Health
Heart
Here
Higher
Home
Honest/Honesty
Honor
Hope
Humble
Hustle

I

Imagine/Imagination
Immerse
Improve/Improvement
Increase
Indulge
Inspire/Inspiration
Integrity
Intent/Intention/Intentional
Initiate
Initiative
Intimate/Intimacy
Intuition

J

Journey
Joy
Jump

K

Kind/Kindness

L

Laugh/Laughter
Lead
Learn
Less
Life
Light
Listen
Live
Love/Loving

M

Magic/Magical
Manifest/Manifestation
Meditate
Mend
Memories
Mindful/Mindfulness
Moment/Moments
Money
More
Move/Movement

N

New
Nature
No
Now
Nurture

O

Observe
Open
Organize
Overcome

P

Pardon
Partner
Passion
Patient/Patience
Pause
Peace
Perform/Performance
Permission
Persevere
Persist
Perspective
Play/Playful
Positive/Positivity
Possible/Possibility
Power/Powerful
Practice
Pray
Presence
Present
Pride
Prime
Probable
Progress/Progression
Prosper/Prosperity
Purpose

Q

Question
Quiet

R

Re-brand
Receive
Reclaim
Reflect
Relax/Relaxation
Release
Renew
Renewal
Reset
Resilient/Resilience
Resolve
Respect
Rest
Retreat
Revive
Rise
Romance

S

Satisfaction
Seek
Self
Self-care
Self-love
Self-trust
Serene/Serenity
Share
Shift
Shine
Siblings
Simple/Simplify/Simplicity
Sisterhood
Slow
Small
Smile
Soul/Soulful
Spark
Sparkle
Speak
Spirit/Spiritual
Still
Strength/Strengthen
Stretch
Strive
Success
Support
Surrender
Surroundings
Survive

T

Teach
Think
Thrive
Today
Touch
Transform/Transformation
Travel
Treasure
Trust
Truth
Try

U

Understand
Unique
Unlimited
Unstoppable

V

Value
Vision
Visionary
Vitality
Vulnerability
Vulnerable

W

Wake
Wander
Well
Wellness
Whole
Wholehearted
Why
Wild
Win/Winning
Wise/Wisdom
Wish
Wonder
Work
Worth/Worthy
Wow

Y
Yes

Z
Zen



Thank you so much for reading!



Jenn Stevens The Aligned Life


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