For the last few years I’ve been choosing a word (or, I will admit usually two!) for the year. I believe the original idea is from oneword365 and the premise is, rather than setting New Year’s Resolutions (that you might just quit by February, anyway) choose one word for how you’d like to feel, be, or live for the entire year.
To give you some examples, in previous years I’ve chosen words like: alignment, empower, thriving, enjoy, etc.
Choosing a word for the year is a great way to set the tone for your entire year. And I think incorporating your one word in your art journal is a great idea… and reminder!
But whether this is the first or twenty-first time you’ve chosen a word for the year, you might have a hard time coming up with one (or like me, two!) So I’ve put together this list of over 200 word of the year possibilities.
Over 200 Word of the Year Ideas:
Abundant
Achieve
Acknowledge
Action
Admire
Adventure
Alignment
Ambition
Ambition
Amuse
Appreciate
Artistic
Aspiration
Aspire
Automate
Balance
Bask
Blissful
Bloom
Blossom
Boundaries
Boundless
Brave
Breathe
Bright
Brilliant
Build
Calm
Cheerful
Cherish
Chill
Clarify
Clarity
Clever
Committed
Composed
Confidence
Connect
Connection
Consistency
Contemplate
Content
Cool
Cozy
Crafted
Crafty
Creative
Cultivate
Curiosity
Dare
Declare
Delight
Desire
Destiny
Diligence
Discerning
Ease
Effortless
Elegant
Embody
Embrace
Emerge
Enjoy
Enlightened
Evolve
Expand
Explore
Exquisite
Faith
Fancy
Fertile
Flourish
Flow
Focus
Follow-through
Forgive
Freedom
Frolic
Fruitful
Generosity
Giving
Glow
Goals
Grace
Grand
Gratitude
Grow
Gumption
Harmonious
Healthy
Heart-felt
Hope
Ideal
Imaginative
Improve
Independence
Innovative
Inspired
Integrity
Intellectual
Intentional
Intuition
Inventive
Joy
Leader
Learn
Light
Lightwork
Limitless
Lively
Love
Luxury
Manifest
Meaningful
Mindset
Minimalism
Momentum
Move
No
Nuance
Opportunity
Optimism
Original
Passion
Peaceful
Peppy
Perspective
Play
Pleasure
Poise
Possibilities
Practice
Praise
Present
Proclaim
Productive
Profound
Prolific
Prosperous
Purpose
Quiet
Reach
Rebuild
Refined
Reflect
Rejoice
Relax
Reliance
Resourceful
Revel
Rise
Secure
Security
Serene
Service
Share
Significance
Silly
Simplify
Sincere
Skillful
Slay
Smooth
Soar
Soften
Sparked
Spirited
Spiritual
Stability
Steadfast
Stillness
Streamline
Stretch
Style
Successful
Sunny
Swanky
Teach
Thankful
Tranquil
Transformation
Travel
Trust
Truthful
Understanding
Unfold
Unique
Unstoppable
Upgrades
Uplift
Uplift
Vibrant
Voice
Wanderlust
Wild
Willpower
Wisdom
Wish
Worth
Yes
Youthful
Zeal
Zesty
I hope these Word of the Year ideas have been helpful. And if you use one (or more, like me!) in your art journal, use hashtag #joyfulartjournaling so we can see what you made!
Oh! And here’s how I incorporated my words in my art journal:
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