What you focus on grows. Being intentional makes all the difference. Choosing a word for the year changed the trajectory of my 2025, and I’m doing it again for the coming new year. Your word can be anything, but it must come naturally and feel right.

You’ll know when you’ve got it. It must be something that will still be rolling off your tongue come December. Something important and influential to your life. Something that will help you to grow, build, and realise your vision. Something central to your actions, habits and choices for the months ahead. My word for 2025 was ‘consistency’. I’m not a ‘new year, new you’ sort of person at all. I don’t make resolutions. But I do appreciate a fresh start and time to reflect, replenish and renew my life vision.

I was keen to create more of an impact, have more focus, and stop being distracted away from my projects and business endeavours by bright shiny object syndrome! Keen to attach something tangible to my theme of consistency, I decided to post daily on social media – sharing my nutrition, health, lifestyle and self-development content with more regularity, quality and call to action. How did it go? Did I post every day? Was I more consistent in my life?

Well, in short, no, and yes! I missed a few days, but I definitely posted far more often than I would have done without my word of the year. It was a constant reminder, and the power of the word didn’t get lost as the year went on. My focus and attention has remained on the same small selection of projects, and I have been far more committed to self-development practices each day.

My word for 2026? ‘Results’! Because consistency is fabulous, but now I’m ready to harvest the fruits of my labour! Reflect, quietly contemplate, and wait for your word to come to you. See how it effects your experience of the year ahead.