25 List Redo and a Word

I finally settled on a word for 2025 and it’s none of the ones I considered. How it goes sometimes, right?  The closest I came to the words I considered was savor.

However, I felt it came with a bit of pressure. And did I want to feel that I must savor the moments of unhappiness that creep into the years along with the wonders. Still, I wanted to notice the moments of happiness and unhappiness and every moment in between. Not just go through the year in a daze (I feel like slept walk through 2024 somehow) but actually pay attention and notice the things happening around me. So my word for 2025 is:

NOTICE

 

I think I could go a bit further with it and use a phrase: notice the moment. Mostly that’s how I plan to engage my word but I’m keeping things simple and just having a word for the year. I’m hoping by noticing the world around me and not spending quite so much time distracting myself (with say my phone), that I can arrive at the end of 2025 and not wonder what happened and where it all went.

What do you think? If you already picked a word for 2025, what is it and how is it going for you so far?

 

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Adding a picture here just to break up topics a bit.

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Speaking of noticing, I noticed I didn’t care for the way I did my 25 for 2025 list. I can fix that though. A new off the cuff list. Some items might be the same and some may change. Anyway, here’s an updated straight up list of 25 things I want to do in 2025, no order, no categories, just a list.

1. Try a different hot chocolate flavor every week during winter
2. Get my ears pierced again
3. Plant a garden again (we skipped last year other than in a few pots)
4. Go on a walk at least once a week (giving myself grace for weeks when the temp is below zero!)
5. Send someone a letter every week of 2025
6. Buy 2 Christmas presents a month
7. Lose 25 pounds (who knows maybe this is my year!)
8. Say yes to invitations, maybes are yes. (I have permission to NOT go if I really don’t want to go)
9. Host Easter brunch
10. Go through an automatic car wash by myself
11. Notice and embrace the pace of every season
12. Clean out the computer desk (Note my computer desk is a big engineering type desk with lots of space in the drawers that I think contain papers dating back to the kids’ elementary school days)
13. Blog at least 3 times a week
14. Date night with my husband once a month (I should probably share this list item with him)
15. Clean and organize basement
16. Participate in the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge (just jumping in with it. Thank you Carol for mentioning it in your blog post on Monday!)
17. Pick up the real camera at least once a week
18. Take 4 trips, one in each season
19. Act from a place of peace, love, and kindness. Take a pause if necessary (sports team cheering exempted, LOL)
20. Clean up the back deck and backyard to make it a more peaceful place (this requires better weather and husband help…hmmm, a date night? Ha!)
21. Clean corner in bedroom (clear out the clutter corner basically)
22. Have spa day once a month
23. Serious email clean out and unsubscribe from lists
24. Give myself permission to rest on days I feel run down
25. Refer back to the list near the end of each month (With a blog post? Maybe sometimes…)

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Will I still do some of the things dropped from my first 25 in 2025 list? Maybe or maybe not. Will I do everything on this list? Maybe or maybe not. I do feel better about this list though like I can stick to it better.