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A Fresh Start with My Power Word for 2025
Looking at mottos and power words of the past years, and sharing my power word for 2025
For the past few years, I’ve chosen a power word for the year. Three weeks before the end of 2024, a word popped into my mind. It stayed there, and deep down I knew it would become my word of the year.
What surprised me was that I remembered previous words I’d chosen, but for the love of me, I couldn’t remember my word for 2024. I had to check.
I knew I wanted to do it differently in 2025.
Previous power words
It was the first day of 2020 that I shared this on my blog (which is no more).
What will 2020 bring us? Maybe it’s a good thing we don’t know. I have decided that my motto for this year will be ‘carpe diem’. I want to live in the present, even when I plan for the future. I want to look back at my past, only to see how it can benefit me to make today better. Today is what is important, today is when we live, when we have to live, as we never know whether we will be granted a tomorrow.
Yes, ‘seize the day’, that will be my motto for 2020.
Carpe diem.
It’s a good thing none of us knew what 2020 — the corona year — would bring. Reflecting on that year, I sure lived by my motto, despite the months of panic attacks after being crushed by a Twitter mob.
My motto for 2021 — no, I still didn’t call it a power word then — was ‘self care’. That flew out the window when my husband had a stroke in March of that year, had his cancerous thyroid removed in July and then received a treatment of radioactive iodine in September.
Then again, maybe I engaged in self care after all, as that year I started seeing a life coach, as to not lose myself between caring for my husband, all the hospital visits, worrying about losing him and coming to terms with our changed life.
In 2022, I chose one word — a power word! I wanted to be heard, wanted to be seen. All attention went out to my husband, but I was suffering too, feeling snowed under.
