200+ Word of the Year Ideas 2025 (For Personal Growth + Dream Life Creation)

Are you wondering, “What is my word of the year for 2025?” I have some FREE resources right here on my blog to help you figure that out! You can learn How to Choose a Word of the Year 2025 on my blog post here. And you can keep reading to get a list of 200+ Word of the Year Ideas 2025. These are great for personal growth and dream life creation so you have your best year yet!

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Keep scrolling to see my list two ways: 1) grouped by category / theme and 2) the full alphabetical list

What Kinds of Words Are Best for Your Word of the Year?

In my opinion, the best kinds of words for your word of the year are positive words that evoke the feeling, vibe, or overall intention you want for your year ahead.

I gravitate towards words that that are especially related to achieving goals, making positive transformation, aligning to the highest version of you, or otherwise living your dream life.

Word of the Year Ideas 2025 by Category / Theme

I thought it would be helpful to start by grouping my 200+ Word of the Year ideas and examples by category / theme. This way if you already have your category / theme for your new year figured out (like I talk about in my tips on How to Choose a Word of the Year), then you can more easily find your favorite options.

So here are your Word of the Year examples, all nicely grouped just for you! (Psst – if you want to see the full list, scroll to the end of this post)

Word of the Year Ideas for Discipline, Money, Business, and Entrepreneurship

Whether you’re launching a new business, ready to make more money, living your best entrepreneur life, or wanting to be more disciplined in the pursuit of your dreams, these words are great options.

  1. Abundance / Abundant
  2. Achieve
  3. Ambition / Ambitious
  4. Bonus
  5. Boss
  6. Build / Building
  7. Commit / Committed
  8. Consistency / Consistent
  9. Decision / Decisive
  10. Dedicate / Dedicated
  11. Direction / Directional
  12. Discipline / Disciplined
  13. Excellence / Excellent
  14. Follow-Through
  15. Forward / Forward-Thinking
  16. Hustle
  17. Ignite
  18. Lead / Leading / Leader / Leadership
  19. Money
  20. Proactive
  21. Profitable
  22. Productive
  23. Resilience / Resilient
  24. Respect
  25. Responsible
  26. Successful
  27. Vocal
  28. Voice

Word of the Year Examples for Self Love, Worthiness, and Happiness

If you want to learn how to love yourself, believe in your self worth, or simply enjoy new levels of happiness in the new year, check out these word of the year ideas.

  1. Acceptance
  2. Affirm
  3. Authentic
  4. Be / Being
  5. Bliss / Blissful
  6. Enough
  7. Happy / Happiness
  8. Heart / Heartfelt
  9. Joy / Joyful
  10. Live
  11. Love / Loved / Loving
  12. Self-Acceptance
  13. Self-Compassion
  14. Self-Love
  15. Selfish
  16. Selfless
  17. Whole
  18. Worthy

Word of the Year Ideas for Action, Adventure, Travel, and Going Big

These words might be for you if you’re looking to be more daring in your life and travels this year.

  1. Adventure
  2. Alive
  3. Bold
  4. Brave
  5. Challenge
  6. Change
  7. Contribute
  8. Courage / Courageous
  9. Dare / Daring
  10. Do
  11. Dream
  12. Driven
  13. Explore / Exploring
  14. Fit / Fitness
  15. Flight
  16. Fly / Flying
  17. Go / Going
  18. Great / Greatest / Greatness
  19. Journey
  20. Marvel
  21. Momentum
  22. Move / Movement
  23. Nature
  24. Phoenix
  25. Power / Powerful
  26. Wander / Wanderlust
  27. Thrill / Thrilling
  28. Travel / Traveling
  29. Unstoppable
  30. Wonder

Word of the Year Examples for Creativity, Art, Inner Child Healing, and Play

Play and creativity are wonderful pursuits. They are also of often tied to inner child healing. This section is great if you’re wanting to tune into more playful energy this year.

  1. Art
  2. Beauty
  3. Celebrate / Celebration
  4. Color / Colorful
  5. Create / Creation/ Creative / Creativity
  6. Cultivate
  7. Curious / Curiosity 
  8. Enjoy / Enjoyment
  9. Expressing / Expressive
  10. Fun
  11. Imagination / Imagine
  12. Light / Lightness
  13. Lighthearted
  14. Make
  15. Passion / Passionate
  16. Play
  17. Silly
  18. Write

Word of the Year Ideas for Chill and Peaceful Vibes

If you’re feeling called to calm down and take things more easy this year, this section might be for you.

  1. Balance / Balanced / Balancing
  2. Breath / Breathe
  3. Calm
  4. Care / Caring
  5. Center / Centered
  6. Chill
  7. Clear / Clearing
  8. Comfort / Comforting
  9. Compassion
  10. Composed
  11. De-Stress / De-Stressing
  12. Divine
  13. Ease
  14. Faith
  15. Gentle / Gently / Gentleness
  16. Grace / Graceful
  17. Grateful / Gratitude
  18. Ground / Grounded / Grounding
  19. Harmony
  20. Heal / Healing
  21. Intentional
  22. Internal
  23. Intuition / Intuitive
  24. Kind / Kindness
  25. Meditation
  26. Mindful / Mindfulness
  27. Patience / Patient
  28. Pause
  29. Peace / Peaceful
  30. Present
  31. Relax / Relaxed
  32. Release / Releasing
  33. Rest / Resting
  34. Savasana
  35. Slow / Slowly
  36. Still / Stillness

Word of the Year Examples for Health, Energy, and Positivity

These ideas are great if you’re focusing on your health and energy in the new year.

  1. Bloom / Blooming
  2. Bright
  3. Brilliant
  4. Energy / Energetic
  5. Enthusiastic / Enthusiasm
  6. Excited / Excitement
  7. Expansion / Expansive
  8. Empower / Empowered / Empowerment
  9. Encourage / Encouraging / Encouragement
  10. Flow / Flowing
  11. Glow / Glow-Up
  12. Health / Healthy
  13. High-Vibe
  14. Optimism / Optimistic
  15. Positive / Positivity
  16. Shine / Shining
  17. Sparkle / Sparkling
  18. Spirit / Spirited
  19. Thrive
  20. Wellness

Word of the Year Ideas for Growth, Goals, and Self Confidence

Ready to crush some goals and take action this year? Check out this list of ideas.

  1. Act / Action / Active
  2. Adaptable
  3. Choose
  4. Clarity
  5. Confidence / Confident
  6. Elevate
  7. Embody / Embodying
  8. Emerge / Emerging
  9. Focus / Focused
  10. Foundation / Foundational
  11. Grow / Growing / Growth
  12. Outgoing
  13. Pride / Proud
  14. Progress / Progressing
  15. Ready
  16. Step / Stepping
  17. Strength / Strong
  18. Stretch / Stretching
  19. Transformational
  20. Uplevel / Upleveling

Word of the Year Ideas for Self Improvement and Personal Development 

And lastly, here are some general personal development words that cover many different areas of self improvement, from relationships to inner wisdom and beyond.

  1. Align / Alignment
  2. Appreciate / Appreciative / Appreciation
  3. Belief / Believe
  4. Belong
  5. Boundaries
  6. Communication / Communicate
  7. Community
  8. Connected / Connection
  9. Cool
  10. Core
  11. Devotion
  12. Efficient
  13. Empathy
  14. Enlighten
  15. Feel
  16. Forgive / Forgiving
  17. Foster
  18. Free / Freedom
  19. Fulfill / Fulfilling
  20. Give / Giving
  21. Home
  22. Hope / Hopeful
  23. Integrity
  24. Inspiring / Inspirational
  25. Luxe / Luxurious
  26. Natural
  27. Open / Openness
  28. Opinionated
  29. Relationships
  30. Simple / Simplify
  31. Support / Supported / Supportive
  32. Surrender / Surrendering
  33. Trust / Trusting
  34. Volunteer
  35. Vulnerable
  36. Wisdom / Wise
  37. Wonderful
  38. Yes

200+ Word of the Year Ideas 2025 (Full List)

And here is the full, alphabetical list:

  1. Abundance / Abundant
  2. Acceptance
  3. Achieve
  4. Action
  5. Act / Active
  6. Adaptable
  7. Adventure
  8. Affirm
  9. Align / Alignment
  10. Alive
  11. Ambition / Ambitious
  12. Appreciate / Appreciative / Appreciation
  13. Art
  14. Authentic
  15. Balance / Balanced / Balancing
  16. Be / Being
  17. Beauty
  18. Belief / Believe
  19. Belong
  20. Bliss / Blissful
  21. Bloom / Blooming
  22. Bold
  23. Bonus
  24. Boss
  25. Boundaries
  26. Brave
  27. Breath / Breathe
  28. Bright
  29. Brilliant
  30. Build / Building
  31. Calm
  32. Care / Caring
  33. Celebrate / Celebration
  34. Center / Centered
  35. Challenge
  36. Change
  37. Chill
  38. Choose
  39. Clarity
  40. Clear / Clearing
  41. Color / Colorful
  42. Comfort / Comforting
  43. Commit / Committed
  44. Communication / Communicate
  45. Community
  46. Compassion
  47. Composed
  48. Confidence / Confident
  49. Connected / Connection
  50. Consistency / Consistent
  51. Contribute
  52. Cool
  53. Courage / Courageous
  54. Core
  55. Create / Creation/ Creative / Creativity
  56. Cultivate
  57. Curious / Curiosity 
  58. Dare / Daring
  59. De-Stress / De-Stressing
  60. Decision / Decisive
  61. Dedicate / Dedicated
  62. Devotion
  63. Direction / Directional
  64. Discipline / Disciplined
  65. Divine
  66. Do
  67. Dream
  68. Driven
  69. Ease
  70. Efficient
  71. Elevate
  72. Emerge / Emerging
  73. Empathy
  74. Embody / Embodying
  75. Empower / Empowered / Empowerment
  76. Encourage / Encouraging / Encouragement
  77. Enjoy / Enjoyment
  78. Energy / Energetic
  79. Enlighten
  80. Enough
  81. Enthusiastic / Enthusiasm
  82. Excellence / Excellent
  83. Excited / Excitement
  84. Expansion / Expansive
  85. Explore / Exploring
  86. Expressing / Expressive
  87. Faith
  88. Feel
  89. Fit / Fitness
  90. Flow / Flowing
  91. Flight
  92. Fly / Flying
  93. Focus / Focused
  94. Follow-Through
  95. Forgive / Forgiving
  96. Forward / Forward-Thinking
  97. Foster
  98. Foundation / Foundational
  99. Free / Freedom
  100. Fulfill / Fulfilling
  101. Fun
  102. Gentle / Gently / Gentleness
  103. Glow / Glow-Up
  104. Give / Giving
  105. Go / Going
  106. Grace / Graceful
  107. Grateful / Gratitude
  108. Great / Greatest / Greatness
  109. Ground / Grounded / Grounding
  110. Grow / Growing / Growth
  111. Happy / Happiness
  112. Harmony
  113. Heal / Healing
  114. Health / Healthy
  115. Heart / Heartfelt
  116. High-Vibe
  117. Home
  118. Hope / Hopeful
  119. Hustle
  120. Ignite
  121. Imagination / Imagine
  122. Integrity
  123. Intentional
  124. Internal
  125. Intuition / Intuitive
  126. Inspiring / Inspirational
  127. Journey
  128. Joy / Joyful
  129. Kind / Kindness
  130. Lead / Leading / Leader / Leadership
  131. Light / Lightness
  132. Lighthearted 
  133. Live
  134. Love / Loved / Loving
  135. Luxe / Luxurious
  136. Make
  137. Marvel
  138. Meditation
  139. Mindful Mindfulness
  140. Momentum
  141. Money
  142. Move / Movement
  143. Natural
  144. Nature
  145. Open / Openness
  146. Opinionated
  147. Outgoing
  148. Optimism / Optimistic
  149. Passion / Passionate
  150. Patience / Patient
  151. Pause
  152. Peace / Peaceful
  153. Phoenix
  154. Play
  155. Positive / Positivity
  156. Power / Powerful
  157. Present
  158. Pride / Proud
  159. Proactive
  160. Profitable
  161. Productive
  162. Progress / Progressing
  163. Ready
  164. Relationships
  165. Relax / Relaxed
  166. Release / Releasing
  167. Resilience / Resilient
  168. Respect
  169. Responsible
  170. Rest / Resting
  171. Savasana
  172. Self-Acceptance
  173. Self-Compassion
  174. Self-Love
  175. Selfish
  176. Selfless
  177. Shine / Shining
  178. Silly
  179. Simple / Simplify
  180. Slow / Slowly
  181. Sparkle / Sparkling
  182. Spirit / Spirited
  183. Step / Stepping
  184. Still / Stillness
  185. Stretch / Stretching
  186. Strength / Strong
  187. Successful
  188. Support / Supported / Supportive
  189. Surrender / Surrendering
  190. Thrill / Thrilling
  191. Thrive
  192. Transformational
  193. Travel / Traveling
  194. Trust / Trusting
  195. Unstoppable
  196. Uplevel / Upleveling
  197. Vocal
  198. Voice
  199. Volunteer
  200. Vulnerable
  201. Wander / Wanderlust
  202. Wellness
  203. Whole
  204. Wisdom / Wise
  205. Wonder
  206. Wonderful
  207. Worthy
  208. Write
  209. Yes

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Summary

There are SO many wonderful Word of the Year ideas and examples available for you. Even beyond my lists above.

My list has been curated for high vibe, high achieving women like me.

We want to live our dreams lives, but we also want ease, flow, and abundance.

We love goals, but not just for success or other superficial things. If you’re here at The Chic Life, you are aiming for a beautifully holistic health picture – mind, body, and soul.

And the lists above are curated just for you!

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