In this episode of the Lift As You Climb podcast, Isabel Alexander explores the powerful tradition of choosing a guiding word or theme for the upcoming year. Discover how this simple practice can bring clarity, focus, and intention to your personal and professional goals. Isabel shares her own process for selecting the perfect word and offers practical tips to make it a transformative force in your life.

Episode Highlights:

- Introduction to the tradition of choosing a guiding word for the new year.

- The significance of setting intentions for personal and professional growth.

- The impact of a carefully chosen word on your mindset and actions.

- Strategies for selecting and embracing your word, including keeping it visible and repeating it daily.

- How your word can serve as a compass to navigate the year ahead.

- Insights from Isabel's own word selection journey and her plans for 2024.

Key Takeaways:

- Your word for the new year can be a transformative force in shaping your intentions and actions.

- Anchoring yourself to your chosen word helps you stay aligned with your goals.

- Practical strategies, such as creating reminders and incorporating your word into daily routines, enhance the power of your word.

Don't underestimate the impact of a single word on your year ahead. As you embark on 2024, consider choosing a guiding word that resonates with your aspirations. Whether it's "growth," "courage," or "balance," let your word be your compass towards a year of intentional living.

Stay tuned for more inspiring episodes from Lift As You Climb podcast. Connect with us on and share your word of the year with us. We'd love to hear from you!

About the Host:

 

Isabel Alexander

Your Next Business Strategist and Transformation Catalyst

 Isabel Alexander's journey from modest beginnings to global recognition epitomizes entrepreneurial resilience and innovation. With over five decades of experience spanning diverse industries, she has become a driving force in shaping economic landscapes worldwide. Noteworthy accomplishments include founding a multimillion-dollar global chemical wholesale business and earning accolades such as Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

As a mentor and advocate, Isabel empowers women entrepreneurs through initiatives like the Lift As You Climb Movement and podcasts, guiding them from startup to maturity. Serving as Chief Encore Officer of The Encore Catalyst, she dedicates herself to coaching and educating emerging entrepreneurs. Her involvement in organizations like RenegadesReinventing.com and Femme on Fire underscores her commitment to leadership and business development.

Additionally, Isabel's advisory roles with government bodies and trade associations, such as Chair of the Canadian Association of Importers & Exporters, highlight her influence in shaping trade policies and fostering international relations.

Driven by her mantra, "Lift As You Climb," Isabel embodies the ethos of mutual growth and empowerment. With dual citizenship in Canada and the United States, she values her extensive family and embraces global connections through travel and professional engagements. Isabel Alexander's narrative serves as a beacon of inspiration, illustrating how visionary leadership and strategic advising can drive global entrepreneurship and economic independence forward.

Founder:

The Encore Catalyst Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/TheEncoreCatalyst )

and

Chief Encore Officer, The Encore Catalyst (www.theencorecatalyst.com) – an accelerator for feminine wisdom, influence, and impact.

also

Author & Speaker ‘Who Am I Now? – Feminine Wisdom Unmasked Uncensored’ https://whoaminowbook.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelannalexander/

 

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Welcome to the Lift As You Climb podcast, where it's all about the

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journey and the joy of discovering who you are now, deciding who you want

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to become, and embracing your genuine identity, influence, and impact.

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In each episode, we'll explore how life's experiences have prepared us for what

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we choose to do next and how to create our Encore, write our own script, and

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star in the next stage of our lives.

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I'm your host, your Encore strategist, and transformation catalyst, Isabel Alexander.

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Hello, I'm Isabel Alexander.

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And it's that time of year again!

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It's the time of year that we are thinking about the next year.

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And we're thinking about strategic plans, as I discussed on a

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recent episode of this podcast.

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And we're also thinking about our goals, our aspirations for the new year

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coming, personally and professionally.

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One of the activities that I do annually, this is a tradition of mine for quite

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some time, and that is to choose a word or a theme to really anchor me into

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the new year and the intentions that I have for outcomes and experiences.

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My process, refined and honed over a few years, and in fact, I included

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as part of my Visual Encore Plan, which is my own customized brand of

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creating a vision board and a strategic plan for my business and my life.

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Because as we've discussed, after all, as a woman business owner,

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as an entrepreneur, we really have only one whole life, and that is

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finding that beautiful blend of energy and results, in our personal

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life and our professional life.

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But getting back to the word, what I really like to focus on is a word, a

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verb that expresses the action the energy that I want to feel going into the year.

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And when I'm wavering in my emotion or energetic focus, that by repeating that

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word to myself and seeing it, and I'll share some of my strategies with you

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in a minute that I, it anchors me back into, "Oh yes, this is the way I intend

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to feel.This is the emotion that I have attached to the reasons, the why I am

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pursuing these objectives and goals."

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Some of the strategies that I employ is, first of all, the word or verb,

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as I prefer to call it, should be like fuel, just propelling you forward

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to accomplish what you want to do.

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And it should be a word that really anchors into you

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physically and emotionally.

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For instance a couple years ago, my word or and it's fine if you want

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to hyphenate or make a phrase, was "Tune-In", and in many ways that

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is still an absolutely perfect verb or theme for me and going forward.

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But, I'm feeling like there's something a little even more powerful for me coming

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up, but tuning in, For me expressed everything I needed to remember about

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tuning into my gut, tuning into my feelings, my intuition, tuning into what

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was going on around me, not getting too immersed in myself, but being aware of

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everything and tuning into the people around me and how they affected me, tuning

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into electronic devices and tuning out those electronic devices, and tuning

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out the people with negative energy that weren't going to bring me closer to the

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future self, the goals that I desired.

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I don't have my word yet for 2024.

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I've started a list.

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In fact, I've got a list on my refrigerator of some of the words

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that are coming to me through exposure, circumstances, downloads

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from the Universe, as I do often get, and I do try to tune in to those.

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I don't have that yet.

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I'll come back and share it with you as soon as I do know.

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But if you're thinking about having a word for yourself for the new year, let me

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just give you some of these suggestions.

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These are part of what I share in the curriculum of a program I created

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called the Visual Encore Plan, which is my unique methodology of

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combining the best practices from vision boards, from manifestation

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practices, and also strategic planning because I'm an entrepreneur,

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so it's important to me to include that process, that kind of thinking.

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Thinking of your word, let me suggest, keep it short, keep it energetic.

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And of course, keep it meaningful.

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It can't be something that somebody else puts on you.

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It's yours and yours alone.

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Say it with conviction, and say it often.

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Really anchor that into your subconscious and your conscious practices.

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Now, if you're so inclined, you can sing it in the shower and, hey, I

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may or may not have done that often.

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Write it in your journal.

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We all know the kinesthetic benefits of writing.

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Write it in your journal.

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Doodle it all over the place.

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Put it on post it notes.

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Stick it in the kitchen, on the cupboards, and on the bathroom mirror.

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Wherever you're going to find it, see it often.

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I also use liquid chalk or dry erase markers and I use that as well.

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I write it on mirrors in the house or on windows.

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You can even write it on appliances, because heck, it just washes off, right?

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Draw, draw little pictures that.

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remind you of that word.

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You can make a hashtag out of your word, your theme, your verb for the

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year and include that in your personal posts and your business posts, if

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that's relevant and appropriate for you.

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Put a sticker on your alarm clock.

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So that's the first thing that you see every day that you are reminded

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of the word that you chose, the theme.

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and your intention of how you want to feel and show up that day.

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You can take a photo of your word and make it a screensaver on your devices.

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So every time you power up or pick up your phone, you'll see that again.

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So whatever it is, make sure that your word is action oriented.

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Emotionally connected to you, very vivid and visible to you on a regular

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basis because we know, especially as women and entrepreneurs, there

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are lots of distractions that get in the way of us living our intentions.

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So having a constant reminder of what you intended to feel.

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and your theme for your year, and that's attached to all of the plans

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that you make for that year, that will exponentially increase your success in

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having that be the year that you intended.

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Stay tuned.

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I will post in my social media.

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As soon as I have decided firmly on the verb that will propel me through 2024.

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I'd love if you share in comments in our Facebook group, the Lift As You Climb

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movement or send me a message through this podcast on YouTube, and share

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what's the word that you've chosen.

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I'll see you real soon.

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