Nicholas Bate encourages us to choose our word for next year.

Choose a word. Any word. One word. Make it yours for 2025. Start thinking about it now. Whiteboard it. Write it every day on your planner. Put the word on a handful of 3 by 5 cards and place them in strategic places as an ever-present reminder. Make it BIG. Write it BOLD.

My word for this year was FINISH! (and, yes, I always write it in all caps with the exclamation point). I wrote it at the beginning of every month in my Daily Log. I wrote it on top of every task list. It helped motivate and guide me. It made the year better.