🪩 What is your word or theme for 2026?

Weigh in on our monthly community prompt 💬

“Stay close to anything that makes you feel glad you are alive.”

—Hafiz

Happy New Year’s Eve, Dohnuts! Every December, my friends and I start trading an important bit of information: What is your word or theme for the year ahead? I love hearing about what the people I love are focusing on, what energy they are calling in.

It’s also fun to look back on the year to examine how the previous word or phrase showed up. How did it weave through the events of the year? How did it reveal meaning in surprising or opposite ways than expected?

Some of my past themes have included: harmony, grace, freedom, delight, serendipity, surrender, miracles, magic, abundance, lucky, peace, healthy/wealthy/wise/grateful (yes, all four at once!), thrive, faith, and for 2025: BREAKTHROUGH (with a side of Thy Will Be Done).

For 2026, I’m jumping onto the bandwagon of one of my business besties, Petra Kolber, after she landed on BOOKED & BOUNTIFUL. It bubbled up as we walked along the water in West Virginia, celebrating after speaking at the Women Warriors Summit, both sharing a desire to call in even more ideal clients just like that one.

Booked could mean speaking gigs (joyful for both of us) or coaching clients (for me, as I’ll be opening up spots again in 2026), or making progress on the next books we both want to write. Bountiful is about abundance in all its forms, also expressed through gratitude and service, not just what’s inbound.

I love buying something small I can wear with the word on it—one year it was a beaded bracelet on Etsy that said FAITH in small black letters. For ten years, I have also renamed whatever new Bluetooth devices I set-up that year with my chosen word or theme (and an emoji, of course). So now, for example, I listen to my “FAITH AirPods,” my “ABUNDANCE Bose,” type on my “MIRACLES MacBook Air,” or I put on my “BREAKTHROUGH Manta Sleep Mask.” It’s a way to remind me of earlier years’ themes, layered over time in one big beautiful Bluetooth list. Here’s an incomplete list of examples:

Ex: Equinox (the spaffice) has a stack of pancakes to remind me of my ideal daily activity stack of work, workouts, writing, and R&R, that boost my energy and mood.

Building on our earlier monthly(ish) Community Doh discussion threads, I’d love to hear from you in the comments so we can create a collective, combined meaning:¹

💬 What is your word or theme for 2026?

• Bonus: Add an emoji :)

• Optional: Share a few sentences about why you chose that one for this year . . .

Note: These are normally for paid subscribers only, so fellow Dohnuts can feel more secure in sharing, knowing the stories and comments aren’t publicly searchable. Today, comments are open, so I would love for you to join us!

1. 🍩 View earlier discussion prompts—and weigh in any time, it’s never too late!—here:

💬 Community Doh: Discussion Prompts

And in case you missed it on Christmas Eve, don’t forget . . . !