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What’s Your word of the year for 2025?

Today is the day you choose your Word of the Year! You will LOVE this powerful exercise to choose a single word that embodies how you want to live, feel, and show up in 2025.
It’s become such a powerful tool in my life that I’ve chosen a Word of the Year for the past five years.
In episode 24, we continue the Be Your Best Self in 2025 Challenge with Day 2: Choose Your Word of the Year. This simple yet transformative practice will help you set the tone and mindset to guide your year ahead.
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Grab your Be Your Best Self in 2025 Workbook: workmuse.com/bestself
Your Word of the Year isn’t a specific goal or task—it’s a single word that embodies how you want to live, feel, and show up in 2025. Join me as I share my personal journey with choosing a Word of the Year and how it’s guided me through some of the hardest seasons of my life, including caregiving for my mom with Alzheimer’s.
By the end of this episode, you’ll have your guiding word—a simple yet powerful tool to keep you aligned with your intentions and dreams for 2025.
Here’s a glance at this episode:
Download your workbook, get cozy in your favorite PJs and settle in as we dive into the exercise to choose your Word of the Year, starting with:
- [01:27] My thoughts on the LA fires and resources to help those affected
- [03:59] How the Be Your Best Self in 2025 Challenge Day 2 introduction for a kinder, more sustainable approach to the new year and how it’s designed for intentional, personal growth.
- [05:21] My personal journey with choosing a Word of the Year and how it’s helped me navigate challenges, find joy, and stay focused—even during tough seasons. and what I’m also leaving behind in 2024 I was too embarrassed to share before.
- [08:55] Why I chose two words in 2024 and how my personal and professional words of the year helped me stay focused on my goals, and how my word the first year of the Challenge changed my year in 2023.
- [11:48] It’s your turn to choose a Word of the Year starting with these 3 questions to help you select your Word of the Year. Decide whether your word is a word of reflection, change, or connection.
- [13:18] My pro tip for keeping your Word of the Year top of mind throughout the year and how accountability can help you shift your year.
- [14:43] My Word of the Year for 2025 and why I’m choosing two in 2025, and why you should keep it simple and choose one Word of the Year.
- [16:50] My final message for why your Word of the Year is about who you want to BE in the New Year.
Listen in because the time to make your next bold move for your career and life is now! Your job share is just waiting to transform your life
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Links mentioned in this episode:
- Grab your Be Your Best Self in 2025 Workbook: workmuse.com/bestself
- Episode 23: Be Your Best Self in 2025 Challenge: What Will You Leave Behind in 2024
- Facebook Community: Job Share, Live Life + Slay Work
- Work Muse Instagram
- Work Muse LinkedIn
- Melissa Nicholson LinkedIn
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Melissa Nicholson job shared for nearly a decade and is the Founder & CEO of Work Muse. Work Muse drives the adoption of job sharing in business as a source of competitive advantage while helping individuals find work-life balance. Join the #JobshareRevolution here.