150 'Word of the Year' Ideas to Create Your Yearly Theme for 2023

intentional living Dec 24, 2019
create your yearly theme for 2023. SO you can live more intentionally. Learn over 150 yearly theme ideas.

Do you have a yearly theme for 2023?

 

If not, then you need one! Creating a theme for the new year is a great way to start your year of with intention and set yourself up for success. 

I always struggled to keep my new year resolutions, however when I took the pressure off myself and switched things up to setting intentions for my life and living an intentional lifestyle, I took my life back and was actually able to achieve my goals and become the person I always envisioned myself to be. 

 

Is Creating a Theme for the New Year Right for you? 

Setting a theme for the new year is great for you if you:

  • Hate goal setting
  • Are new to goal setting
  • Feel like you don’t have time for goal setting
  • Don’t know where to start on goal setting

 

Once I started focusing on creating a theme for the new year versus focusing on making resolutions my life began to change.  Add in some powerful intentional living tools - like creating a brain based vision board - and your life will change too! 

 

It is time to shift your mindset around setting goals for your life. 

Start living a more intentional life by simply choosing a word or phrase to get aligned with your dream life!

Want to go deeper? Check out my  signature brain-based vision board course here! 

 

 

Why you need a Word of the Year or a Yearly Theme

Choosing a word of the year or a yearly theme, allows you to have an overarching umbrella for the year ahead.  

 

It is a single word or phrase that captures what you want to focus on, what you may need more of or what you want to improve on over the coming months.

 

A word of the year or theme guides you as you make decisions day to day and helps build habits aligned with where you want your year to take you.  Keeping you aligned with the bigger picture without getting focused on the minute details and self-sabotaging self-talk that is often connected with SMART goals and New Year Resolutions.

 

 

How do you pick a theme for the year?

Reflect on What Season of Life are you in and ask yourself what do you want more of? 

Examples: 

↠ Are you looking at buying a house? Getting married/finding love? having a baby? Getting a Pet? Moving? Changing careers? Going back to School?

Consider a theme around "New Beginnings", “Preparing for the next Chapter”, "Embracing Change". 

↠ Perhaps you are working on your relationships, establishing your career, starting a business, learning about mindset or wanting to be more enlightened.

Consider a theme around "Setting Foundations", "managing mindset", or "grounding".   

↠ Is it time to focus on YOU and how you can show up to be the best version of yourself? To start loving yourself? Investing in yourself? Getting honest with changes you need to make?

Consider a theme around "Self Evolution",  "The Year of Me" or "Healing".

↠ Are you ready to take life to the next level?

Consider a theme around ”elevation”, “Growth”, “Momentum”, or "Raising my Vibration’.

 



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150 'Word of the Year' Ideas to get Aligned

 Abundance

Acceptance

Adventure

Alignment

Amaze

Appreciate

Awaken

Badass

Balance

Be

Beauty

Believe

Bloom

Brave

Breathe

Calm

Centered

Clarity

Committed

Compassion

Complete

Connection

Confidence

Conquer

Conscious

Consistency

Courage

Creativity

Cultivate

Curiosity

Dazzle

Discover

Dream

Elevate

Embody

Embrace

Energy

Enlighten

Ferociousness

Fierce

Flourish

Flow

Focus

Frequency

Give

Glorious

Glow

Grace

Gracious

Gratitude

Grounded

Grow

Harmony

Healing

Health

Honor

Hope

Hydrate

Illuminate

Imagination

Imagine

Improve

Inclusion

Inspire

Intentional

Intimacy

Intuitive

Invest

Joy

Kindness

Laugh

Lead

Light

Love

Manifest

Master

Mindful

Mindset

Minimalism

Natural

New

No

Nurture

Observe

Organize

Passion

Patience

Pause

Persevere

Positivity

Possible

Present

Re-align

Reconnect

Reflect

Represent

Reset

Resilience

Respect

Rise

Self-love

Self-care

Serenity

Shine

Simplify

Slow

Smile

Soulful

Spirituality

Stillness

Surrender

Thrive

Tranquil

Transform

Truth

Unapologetic

Unstoppable

Vibrant

Vibrations

Vivacious

Vulnerability

Whole

Whole

Wholehearted

Wild

Wisdom

Wise

Wonder

Worthy

Yes

Zealous

Zen

 

 

Prefer a Phrase?

50 Phrase of the Year Ideas 

  1. Preparing For The Next Chapter
  2. New Beginnings
  3. Setting Foundations
  4. Choosing Health
  5. Investing in Me
  6. Year Of Follow Through
  7. Setting Boundaries
  8. Gaining Stability
  9. Reigniting Passion
  10. Saying Yes
  11. Saying No
  12. Being Mindful
  13. Gaining Momentum
  14. Money Management
  15. Making Shit Happen
  16. Building Dreams
  17. Managing Mindset
  18. Taking Accountability
  19. Leveling Up
  20. Building Confidence
  21. Raising Consciousness
  22. Raising My Vibration
  23. Cultivating Happiness
  24. Intentional Alignment
  25. Fearless Intimacy
  26. Bright And Bold
  27. Being Vulnerable
  28. Embracing Abundance
  29. Choosing my Thoughts
  30. Taking Responsibility
  31. Owning my Power
  32. Wander and Wonder
  33. Staying Curious
  34. Choosing Love
  35. Being Unapologetically Me
  36. Finding Balance
  37. Being Present
  38. Living Wholeheartedly
  39. Slowing Down
  40. Practicing Patience
  41. Awakening my Spirit
  42. Consciously Creative
  43. Trusting my Intuition
  44. Hydrating my Soul
  45. Soulful Purpose
  46. Simplify and Minimize
  47. Decluttering My Mind, Body and Spirit
  48. Embodying my Truth
  49. Embracing Change
  50. Striving and Thriving
  51. Intentional Choices
  52. Letting Go
  53. Leading with Love
  54. Choosing Courage
  55. Reconnect and Re-align

 

 

Now that you have your word of the year what is next?

Pick your top 4-5 choices.

 

Sit with them for a few days and pick the one that resonates the greatest.

Write it down on a piece of paper that you will see daily.

 

Even better - create a vision board! 

 

If you are new to vision boarding and want to learn more I suggest checking out my vision boarding 101 guide here! 

 

If you are not down to create a vision board, then I highly suggest a sticky note on your bedside table. Or a screensaver on your phone/work computer/ desk.

Be creative and put it where you will see it!

Drill that sucker into your subconscious mind so you begin to fully embrace and embody it as you make decisions moment to moment.

 

 

 

Want to go deeper?  Amplify Your Life with the following tools:

FREE INTENTION SETTING WORKBOOK

VISION BOARDING 101 – YOUR TOTAL GUIDE TO VISION BOARDING

INTENTIONAL LIVING 101- YOUR STEP by STEP GUIDE TO LIVING MORE INTENTIONALLY

 



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