WHAT'S YOUR WORD OR THEME OF THE YEAR (+ 167 IDEAS)

Have you heard the concept of picking a word or theme for the year? The idea is that you choose one word that sums up your goals and dreams for the next 12 months.

Having one word means you have an overarching focus for the year ahead. It’s like setting an intention for what you want to be, do, have and create.

The word can be a value or a feeling.

Then when you make decisions, you can think about whether it aligns with what you really want

I’ve chosen VIBRANT for 2023.

My Word/Theme Of The Year for 2023

I felt run down over the Christmas period (as many of us did) so I wanted to have a word that felt the opposite of the meh feeling that seemed to hang over me for most of December.

I’ve always loved the energy of the New Year though and I was ON IT when it came to 1st Jan. We’ve been painting rooms, ordering furniture, decluttering, making big decisions in my business, planning, starting up hobbies again.

I don’t want this to be a ‘January thing’. I want to keep this energy all year long. So VIBRANT was the word that stuck.

To me ‘VIBRANT’ means:

• Feeling energised.

• Feeling ALIVE!

• Waking up feeling excited

• Feeling excited.

• Moving in a way that makes me feel healthy.

• Eating food that really nourish me.

• Fresh air.

• Nature.

• People that energise me.

• Activities that energise me.

• Following my dreams.

• And by the looks of my mini mood board…the beach!

It crosses into every area of my life. I’m excited to keep working on and feeling vibrant in my business, relationships, health, home and life.

NOT SURE WHICH WORD TO CHOOSE?

I’VE CREATED A LIST TO HOPEFULLY INSPIRE YOU.

1. Achieve

2. Action

3. Adventure

4. Align

5. Appreciate

6. Authentic

7. Balance

8. Begin

9. Belong

10. Bloom

11. Bright

12. Build

13. Calm

14. Clear

15. Commit

16. Compassion

17. Completion

18. Confidence

19. Connection

20. Consistency

21. Courage

22. Create

23. Creative

24. Daring

25. Dedicated

26. Delight

27. Devote

28. Discipline

29. Dream

30. Embody

31. Empower

32. Encourage

33. Energy

34. Enthusiasm

35. Excite

36. Expansion

37. Experience

38. Express

39. Faith

40. Fit

41. Focus

42. Forgiveness

43. Free

44. Friendship

45. Fun

46. Gentle

47. Give

48. Glow

49. Go

50. Gracious

51. Gratitude

52. Grounded

53. Happy

54. Heal

55. Health

56. Heart

57. Honesty

58. Hope

59. Humility

60. Imagine

61. Inspire

62. Integrity

63. Intent

64. Intentional

65. Intimate

66. Journey

67. Joy

68. Jump

69. Kind

70. Knowledge

71. Laughter

72. Lead

73. Learn

74. Less

75. Listen

76. Live

77. Love

78. Magical

79. Magnify

80. Manifest

81. Mindful

82. Moment

83. Move

84. Natural

85. New

86. Nourish

87. Now

88. Nurture

89. Observe

90. Open

91. Organic

92. Organise

93. Passion

94. Patience

95. Peace

96. Permission

97. Perspective

98. Playful

99. Positive

100. Possible

101. Power

102. Presence

103. Preserve

104. Progress

105. Prosperous

106. Proud

107. Purpose

108. Queen

109. Question

110. Quiet

111. Radian

112. Receive

113. Reflect

114. Release

115. Renew

116. Resolve

117. Respect

118. Rest

119. Retreat

120. Revive

121. Rise

122. Risk

123. Romance

124. Self

125. Self-care

126. Self-love

127. Share

128. Shine

129. Simplify

130. Slow

131. Soul

132. Sparkle

133. Spirit

134. Still

135. Strength

136. Success

137. Support

138. Surrender

139. Teach

140. Thoughtfulness

141. Thrive

142. Tranquil

143. Transform

144. Travel

145. Trust

146. Truth

147. Understand

148. Unique

149. Unlimited

150. Unstoppable

151. Value

152. Vibrant

153. Vision

154. Vitality

155. Vulnerable

156. Wake

157. Wander

158. Wellness

159. Whole

160. Wholehearted

161. Worthy

162. YES!

163. Yourself

164. Youth

165. Zealous

166. Zen

167. Zest

Have you decided on your word/theme of the year YET?

I’d love to know what it is. Let me know in the comments below.

FACEBOOK LIVE TIPS

BECOME A LIVESTREAMING CLIENT MAGNET WITH FACEBOOK LIVE

Someone asked me for some tips on doing their first Facebook Live tonight so I thought I wanted to share them with you too.

1) Set up a group and go and practise in it so you know how to turn it on and off and ensure the lighting and background are good. 

2) Practise an opening line so you start off confidently as soon as you see you’re ‘on air’.

3) Map out an opener, your main content and a call to action at the end.

4) Wear something you feel confident in. 

5) Put your main points on post-its right next to your phone so they are easy to see and you don’t forget any of your key points.

6) Make sure you look INTO the camera and not at yourself. This is better for the viewer because you’ll be looking at them and also for you because it will remind you that you’re doing this for the people watching.

7) If you forget what you’re talking about don’t worry about it...just say that and laugh. That will bring your brain out of the freeze and you’ll seem real and authentic.

8) Have fun. This doesn’t need to be perfect. My first Facebook Live lasted 4 mins because I was so nervous  but it gets easier and now I really enjoy them. 

9) And remember this...only people who are pushing themselves out of their comfort zone and therefore growing that experience nervous and stage fright. So it’s a great sign if you’re feeling a bit nervous.

WATCH THE VIDEOS BELOW FOR more tips:

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HOW TO GET OVER FEAR OF SUCCESS

HOW TO GET OVER FEAR OF SUCCESS

Fear of success is very common and that’s because fearing change is what our brains are wired to do. You are literally going against your internal programming and survival instincts when you set new and big goals. 

So don’t beat yourself up about it but yes, you do need to work through it otherwise it will always feel like you have one foot on the accelerator and the other on the break the whole time your run your business. 

Finish the sentence (below) as many times as you can until you have written everything your brain can think of. 

“I am scared to be a success in case/because…”

Give your brain the time to share. It's trying to be heard and when we try to think positively over it without letting it speak, it just gets louder!

And your subconscious mind (where this fear comes from) is FIVE TIMES MORE POWERFUL than your conscious mind anyway so you'll be fighting a losing battle if you try to ignore it and its fears. 

Then take each answer and write out 3 reasons why that isn’t actually true/fact (or as they say...absolute BS). 

For example:
I am scared to be a success in case I get trolled on the internet.

The 3 reasons why this is BS are:

1. People will say things whether I’m being successful or not. A troll will always be a troll so I can stay small or go big. It's about them, not ME. They'll just troll someone else if I'm staying small and not being seen. 
2. I might NEVER even get trolled anyway and I’m stopping myself from doing what I love to protect myself from something that may NEVER happen. 
3. The people whose opinions I really value will want me to be a success. 

do this for EVERY sentence you wrote out. Coach yourself through it. 

Once you have done that...

imagine you're 90 sitting on your sofa and you look back and REALISE you never went for your dreams.

Write about how you feel. It's good if this feels painful. We are trying to change the what your brain links pain (aka fear) to.

You will ALWAYS have fear. We can’t get rid of that - but we can use it to our advantage. 

This is not just about 'feel the fear and do it anyway', it’s about changing that fear to be the FEAR OF NOT GOING FOR IT. 

After that amp up the excitement of the results you want.

But do the other exercises first and your brain will accept them and get excited too.

Try this and let me know in the comments below how differently you feel about creating success in your business and going NEXT LEVEL. 

Emma xx

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