A Word to Live By

Every year I choose a word to live by.

2024: misneach. Gaelic for courage. I was making big changes and needed a reminder that I could.

2025: becoming. Some of those changes had happened. I wanted to keep the momentum…to keep growing into something more.

2026: flourish. Time to thrive.

Then life handed me a curveball I wasn’t expecting for another few years, and I had to take a hard look at what flourishing actually meant for me.

Turns out, it wasn’t where I thought it was.

The word I’m living now is homecoming.

Not a retreat. Not a plan B. A return — with 20+ years of experience, growth, and hard-won clarity — to the place where I was always meant to land.

More on what that looks like soon.

misneach → becoming → flourish → homecoming

That’s not four words. That’s one sentence.

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