One Word 2025 | Reflections on 2024

 Another year is ending and a new year is just around the corner. As I close out the year and reflect on what I have accomplished it is refreshing to see how I used my ONE WORD in 2024 which was CONNECTION.

I came out of my comfort zone as an introvert to make deliberate connections with others. My goal starting this year was to connect once a month, hoping it was 12 unique connections from 12 different people. 

It started out this way and I loved it and then it just took off. I have been blessed with almost 60 different connections this year. A lot were one on one and some were with my husband and a few as a group setting. All initiated by me.

After 12 months of intentionally connecting with others and building lasting friendships, I look forward to staying CONNECTED in 2025 so I will definitely keep this one word going in the coming year..

2025 ONE WORD

This year I have chosen the word MINDSET

The last few months of this year, when I did something or thought something, the word mindset kept coming up. Changing my mindset of fitness, eating, eliminating processed sugar, family etc.. All shifting of my mindset. 

So this year my ONE WORD is Mindset.

 My goal is to focus on:

• FITNESS- finding workouts that I enjoy and can stick with and that caters to less jumping. I am phasing out on my running and doing more hiking and walking for cardio. Weightlifting is priority and still deciding if my downstairs gym is enough or to welcome a gym membership with my hubby
  
  
• NUTRITION- eating whole foods, eliminating processed sugar starting January 1 and training myself that food is fuel
  
  
• FAMILY- I don't have the best relationship with some of my extended family and it's been hard wanting one but in the end its not the healthiest. I want to work on balancing this out by reaching out intentionally more 
  
  
• BUSINESS- as a business owner for almost six years I have catered my photography to a genre that I learned most of my photography skills from over 30 years ago. I just assumed that was what my business would be based on. This past year I had to change my mindset, not to auto pilot but intentional purpose for the coming year. Stay tuned for more info on this...
  
  

PAST YEARS ONE WORD

2011- Simplify

2012- Balance

2013- Renew

2014- Focus

2015- Strength

2016- Intentional 

2017- Determined

2018- Commit

2019- Invest

2020- Vision

2021- Cleanse

2022- Believe

2023- Purpose

2024- Connection

You can see by my past years words, I am still incorporating them into my daily lives. You can see that with my descriptions on how I will use mindset in 2025 in the categories above.

I am sure there is more areas that I will be focusing on this year. I am looking forward to 2025..

Happy New Year!