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.

4 THINGS I LEARNT ABOUT MONEY FROM MULTIMILLIONAIRES

One of the women in my Mastermind was reading this amazing book by Jen Sincero. 

It's one of the mindset books on the reading list I give to all my clients. 

As you can see, Jen dedicated this book to Gina DeVee and that's who I trained with for a year to become a coach.

Hearing this, she asked me to share my biggest takeaways from learning from the multi-millionaire. (I've actually hired 6 multiple 7-figure female entrepreneurs over the last 10 years because I love learning from the best!).

Honestly, it comes down to knowing something else is possible (as in you CAN get paid great money to do what you love) and then being consistent about keeping your mind focussed on what you want (rather than what you don’t).

As well as learning from these powerhouse women, I've read many books on money (over 50) and been studying and applying the mindset work in depth. 

Here are my 4 top tips to transform your relationship with money:

1) READ WEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS BOOKS

Gina taught us to keep filling our mind daily with wealth consciousness books. The two she recommended are: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles and Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

When Gina finishes one she picks the other one up and starts reading it again. She reads at least 15-30 mins a day.

I love TSOGR and will happily read that regularly. I prefer to listen to Think & Grow Rich.

2) CHANGE YOUR MONEY 'STORY' 

Then it's about changing your money ‘story’. Noticing when you're feeling negative around money and then switching the language around.

As a child, we learn about money from our parents, society, religion, teacher, films, the media but that doesn't mean what we learn is true. The problem is, we can learn a lot of very limiting beliefs that we take on as fact when really, they have just been someone else's experience. 

Take for instance the belief that many people have that you 'have to work hard for money.'

Who says? I know it might seem to be the case when you look around you but there are thousands of people out there who bring in money and aren't busting a gut to do so.

When we tell ourselves we have to work hard for money and we're entrepreneurs then that can become true for us and cause all kinds of stress and hardship.

I know because this was one of my tough-to-shift beliefs. I often felt guilty if I had some passive income coming in and would either sabotage my efforts or force myself to work harder for it. This belief can lead to burn-out too. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you'll never have to do anything and that money will just land in your lap BUT how about shifting the belief to:

“Money comes easily to me as I do the things I love.”

That has a very different energy and will produce very different actions and results. 

Take a look at any negative language and thoughts you have around money and you need to shift them to become positive.

3) BECOME THE NEXT LEVEL VERSION OF YOU

It's then about BEING the person who has the success you want BEFORE you even see it in your life. You can't get healthy by continuing to do the same things you did when you get sick, right? 

We know we have to become the healthy person first and then health follows. 

It's the same with money. 

You have to become the abundant, affluent version of yourself and then the money follows. 

Want more money, clients and success? Get clear on how many and then ask yourself: what will that next level version of me do, wear, eat, act, think? Start doing those things now! That does not mean you have to go and max out your credit card - that won't help your money mindset one bit!! 

Get creative here.

Go to the hotels you'd love to stay in and order a glass of champagne or a pot of tea. You have to put yourself in the surroundings first and then you feel comfortable and they feel like your #norm. THEN the magic can happen.

4) YOU HAVE TO FEEL ABUNDANT NOW

All the time we're desperately wishing and hoping for money to come to us, it keeps  us thinking about a future time. That's not how you attract money and clients. 

You have to FEEL abundant NOW. You have to feel as if you already have what you want - the wardrobe you want, the clients you want, the money in the bank, the Amazon bestseller. 

THEN your Subconscious mind can get to work on helping you start acting that way automatically AND you activate the powerful Law of Attraction.

That's why I'm always talking about affirmations, vision boards, visualisations and writing 'as if'. When done right, they will completely transform your entire life - for the better.

They get you into the STATE of having it already and that's when you are able to receive it. Sounds ironic right? But it's just what happens. 

Like an athlete seeing and feeling herself winning that gold medal over and over in her mind - literally thousands of times before she actually wins it. That's what you need to do too. 

I cover this in detail in my 21 Days to £5K Mindset course. That whole course is about shifting the way you think about, talk about and act around money.

Click the link below, to find out more.

Here's some feedback women who've taken the course:

21 SUCCESS & MONEY AFFIRMATIONS FOR FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS

21 SUCCESS & MONEY AFFIRMATIONS FOR FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS 

1. Whatever I can dream up for my business, I can achieve.

2. I've created the perfect business for myself.

3. This year I made £$_____.  (Insert the amount you want to make in 2018 and get used to hearing yourself say it as if it's happened).

4. I deserve the finest life has to offer.

5. _______ is my most profitable month of 2018!  (You can change the month each time).

6. My success encourages others to go after their dreams.

7. I lovingly forgive any past money mistakes to open myself up to receiving more. 

8. I'm open and ready to attract everything I desire.

9. I love turning my creative ideas into money.

10. I’m proud of everything I’ve achieved so far.

11. I'm happy, successful and fulfilled.

12. Why is it so easy for me to get new clients? 

(Let your brain keep coming up with ideas for this one. Our brains are like Google - ask it a question and it'll search for an answer. So don’t say: Why do I never have enough clients/money? Because it WILL give you an answer and it won’t feel very empowering.)

13. Incredible abundance is my chosen reality.

14. I use money to better my life and the life of others.

15. I have everything I want and need.

16. I have the power to attract money.

17. I deserve the money I make.

18. Money is pouring into my life from all directions. 

19. I am worthy of success.

20. I have everything I want and need. 

21. I love watching my business expand.

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