Alphabetical list of ‘word of the year’ ideas.
Have you picked a word of the year?
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It’s a great alternative to a New Year’s resolution. Does anyone keep those anyways? A word of the year can be simple and purposeful!
This year, my (Salvage Sister) word is PRESENCE. It’s so easy to get distracted with work and life and not be fully present when you are around those you love.
If you need help through the process of picking a word, you can use this resource, but the best suggestion is to always pray and meditate on it for a little while. You’ve got time. Often the words come to us when we are still and quiet.
WORD OF THE YEAR IDEAS
A
- Authentic
- Achieve
- Align
- Accomplish
- Appreciate
- Action
- Abide
- Accountable
- Ahead
- Attentive
- Alert
- Attentive
- Available
- Awesome
- Aware
B
- Believe
- Bold
- Balance
- Be
- Beauty
- Become
- Blessing
- Bright (brilliant)
- Breathe
- Build
- Begin
- Brave
- Better
- Brave
C
- Complete
- Consistent
- Calm
- Charitable
- Courage
- Connect
- Clarity
- Church
- Change
- Challenge
- Communicate
- Coach
- Capable
- Care
- Clear
- Choice
- Compassion
- Commit
- Confident
- Colorful
- Change
- Community
- Cheerful
- Creative (create)
- Cherished
- Cultivate
- Celebrate
D
- Determination
- Discipline
- Disciple
- Delight
- Dare
- Discover
- Dream
- Dependable
- Dedicated
- Diligent
- Daring
- Discern
- Distance
- Dynamic
- Decisive
- Deliberate
- Develop
- Direction
E
- Explore
- Express
- Execute
- Enjoy
- Encourage
- Empower
- Energy
- Effort
- Educate
- Endure
- Embrace
F
- Free
- Freedom
- Fearless
- Focus
- Family
- Fit
- Feel
- Faith
- Forgive
- Forward
- Flourish
- Fruitful
- Finish
- Friend
- Flexible
- Foundation
G
-
- Grow
- Grace
- Goals
- Give
- Genuine
- Good
- Generous
- Grateful
- Gentle
- Grounded
- Guide
H
- Honesty
- Healthy
- Hope
- Home
- Happy
- Heal
- Humor
- Heard
- Humble
- Heart
- Hero
I
- Intentional
- Impact
- Imagine
- Invest
- Integrity
- Influence
- Improve
- Inspire
J
- Joy
- Jump
- Journey
- Jolly
- Jubilant
- Justice
K
- Kind (ness)
- Known
- Knowledge
- K.I.S
L
- Less
- Love
- Light
- Listen
- Live (life)
- Learn
- Laugh
- Loyal
- Lead
- Liberty
- Light
M
- Motivate
- Mercy
- Move
- Mastering
- Motivated
- Motion
- Mission
- Manage
- Model
- Minister
- Moment
- Meek
- Meaning
- Mindful
N
- Network
- Nourish
- Natural
- New
- Navigate
- Nurture
- Nice
- Nourish
O
- Outdoors
- Open
- Optimistic
- Obedience
- Opportunity
- Original
- Organize
P
- Peace
- Patience
- Presence
- Persevere
- Progress
- Passion
- Purpose (ful)
- Power
- Priorities
- Play
- Pure
- Persistence
- Possible
- Potential
- Prayer
- Praise
- Proclaim
Q
- Qualify
- Quick
- Question
- Quiet
R
- Rest (ed)
- Reset
- Relational
- Renew
- Risk
- Radiant
- Release
- Rise
- Responsible
- Reflect
- Ready
- Reliable
- Resourceful
S
- Survive
- Surrender
- Strong
- Self-Control
- Simplify
- Slow
- Serve
- Survivor
- Spiritual
- Share
- Selfless
- Soar
- Sparkle
- Steady
- Success
- Savor
- Stewardship
- Strategic
- Search
- Seek
- Sincere
- Submit
- Sweet
- Shine
- Start
- Soulful
- Shift
- Support
T
- Truth (True)
- Teach
- Team
- Thankful
- Transform
- Trust
- Tenacious
- Transparent
- Tranquil
- Tender
- Teachable
- Thrive
- Triumph
- Together
- Travel
- Tender
U
- Unity
- Unafraid
- Uphold
- Uplift
- Unabashed
- Unflappable
- Unconditional
V
- Visible
- Vision
- Valuable
- Victory
- Vigilant
- Value
- Virtue
W
- Whole
- Worthy
- Wise
- Willing
- Watch
- Work
- Worship
- Write
X
- XOXO
- Xenodochial
Y
- Yearn
- Young
Z
- Zoom
- Zeal
- Zest
What’s your word of the year?
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This is great. I haven’t decided on a word, though I don’t feel as though I accomplished my word from last year very well, which was “intentional” so I may “reuse” that one 🙂
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Kirstin, You know how we feel about reusing 🙂
What a neat idea. This is a great preliminary exercise also to creating a personal mission statement! Will definitely have to find a quiet moment to meditate on this one.
We love a good personal mission stmt as well. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for the advice! Now I have to see what my word for the year will be.
Gloria, Here’s to a great 2017!!!
Lots of great inspirational words for 2018!!
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Sam, Always interesting to see what people pick for their words.