How to Choose Your Word for a New Year | LAYC 93

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Welcome to the Lift As You Climb podcast, where it's all about the

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journey and the joy of discovering who you are now, deciding who you want

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to become, and embracing your genuine identity, influence, and impact.

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In each episode, we'll explore how life's experiences have prepared us for what

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we choose to do next and how to create our Encore, write our own script, and

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star in the next stage of our lives.

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I'm your host, your Encore strategist, and transformation catalyst, Isabel Alexander.

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Hello, I'm Isabel Alexander.

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And it's that time of year again!

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It's the time of year that we are thinking about the next year.

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And we're thinking about strategic plans, as I discussed on a

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recent episode of this podcast.

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And we're also thinking about our goals, our aspirations for the new year

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coming, personally and professionally.

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One of the activities that I do annually, this is a tradition of mine for quite

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some time, and that is to choose a word or a theme to really anchor me into

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the new year and the intentions that I have for outcomes and experiences.

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My process, refined and honed over a few years, and in fact, I included

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as part of my Visual Encore Plan, which is my own customized brand of

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creating a vision board and a strategic plan for my business and my life.

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Because as we've discussed, after all, as a woman business owner,

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as an entrepreneur, we really have only one whole life, and that is

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finding that beautiful blend of energy and results, in our personal

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life and our professional life.

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But getting back to the word, what I really like to focus on is a word, a

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verb that expresses the action the energy that I want to feel going into the year.

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And when I'm wavering in my emotion or energetic focus, that by repeating that

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word to myself and seeing it, and I'll share some of my strategies with you

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in a minute that I, it anchors me back into, "Oh yes, this is the way I intend

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to feel.This is the emotion that I have attached to the reasons, the why I am

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pursuing these objectives and goals."

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Some of the strategies that I employ is, first of all, the word or verb,

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as I prefer to call it, should be like fuel, just propelling you forward

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to accomplish what you want to do.

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And it should be a word that really anchors into you

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physically and emotionally.

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For instance a couple years ago, my word or and it's fine if you want

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to hyphenate or make a phrase, was "Tune-In", and in many ways that

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is still an absolutely perfect verb or theme for me and going forward.

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But, I'm feeling like there's something a little even more powerful for me coming

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up, but tuning in, For me expressed everything I needed to remember about

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tuning into my gut, tuning into my feelings, my intuition, tuning into what

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was going on around me, not getting too immersed in myself, but being aware of

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everything and tuning into the people around me and how they affected me, tuning

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into electronic devices and tuning out those electronic devices, and tuning

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out the people with negative energy that weren't going to bring me closer to the

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future self, the goals that I desired.

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I don't have my word yet for 2024.

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I've started a list.

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In fact, I've got a list on my refrigerator of some of the words

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that are coming to me through exposure, circumstances, downloads

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from the Universe, as I do often get, and I do try to tune in to those.

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I don't have that yet.

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I'll come back and share it with you as soon as I do know.

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But if you're thinking about having a word for yourself for the new year, let me

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just give you some of these suggestions.

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These are part of what I share in the curriculum of a program I created

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called the Visual Encore Plan, which is my unique methodology of

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combining the best practices from vision boards, from manifestation

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practices, and also strategic planning because I'm an entrepreneur,

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so it's important to me to include that process, that kind of thinking.

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Thinking of your word, let me suggest, keep it short, keep it energetic.

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And of course, keep it meaningful.

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It can't be something that somebody else puts on you.

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It's yours and yours alone.

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Say it with conviction, and say it often.

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Really anchor that into your subconscious and your conscious practices.

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Now, if you're so inclined, you can sing it in the shower and, hey, I

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may or may not have done that often.

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Write it in your journal.

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We all know the kinesthetic benefits of writing.

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Write it in your journal.

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Doodle it all over the place.

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Put it on post it notes.

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Stick it in the kitchen, on the cupboards, and on the bathroom mirror.

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Wherever you're going to find it, see it often.

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I also use liquid chalk or dry erase markers and I use that as well.

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I write it on mirrors in the house or on windows.

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You can even write it on appliances, because heck, it just washes off, right?

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Draw, draw little pictures that.

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remind you of that word.

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You can make a hashtag out of your word, your theme, your verb for the

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year and include that in your personal posts and your business posts, if

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that's relevant and appropriate for you.

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Put a sticker on your alarm clock.

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So that's the first thing that you see every day that you are reminded

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of the word that you chose, the theme.

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and your intention of how you want to feel and show up that day.

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You can take a photo of your word and make it a screensaver on your devices.

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So every time you power up or pick up your phone, you'll see that again.

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So whatever it is, make sure that your word is action oriented.

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Emotionally connected to you, very vivid and visible to you on a regular

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basis because we know, especially as women and entrepreneurs, there

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are lots of distractions that get in the way of us living our intentions.

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So having a constant reminder of what you intended to feel.

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and your theme for your year, and that's attached to all of the plans

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that you make for that year, that will exponentially increase your success in

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having that be the year that you intended.

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Stay tuned.

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I will post in my social media.

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As soon as I have decided firmly on the verb that will propel me through 2024.

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I'd love if you share in comments in our Facebook group, the Lift As You Climb

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movement or send me a message through this podcast on YouTube, and share

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what's the word that you've chosen.

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I'll see you real soon.

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