My Three words for 2025: GRATITUDE – ALIGN – ACT Choose Just 3 words to guide your thinking and you can forget about making & breaking New Year resolutions. Yes, those old-fashioned, quick to be discarded ‘resolutions” are totally out of step with today’s need to be nimble and flexible, particularly as we enter a noise filled 2025. Taking three words of value and actions for you become a guide to choices we make every day.
I have mine posted right above my desk. I use them as a tool to evaluate my daily actions, and results or progress. “Words are software” says Chris Brogan.
“They can drive an action that can make things work for you.” Choose three words that can be helpful decision-making tools. Nouns work well.
Three words that can point you in the right direction, helping you decide. They guide you toward your intentions all year long if you keep them top of mind every day. In 2006, Chris Brogan began what has become an annual tradition of gathering a group of friends, clients, consultants and thinkers to work through the best three words to guide each of us in the coming year.
I have been doing this for about ten years now with consistent success and certainly less frustration over the year. Way back in 2021 I spoke with Top Goal Setting Coach Debra Eckerling who suggested an early December start to the year and I have joined her each of these last five years in reviewing prior year goals and planning big wins. Last night I joined her Goal Chat panel wi.