Do You Need a New One Word? Mid-Year Check-In
{One Word 2025 June Linkup}

We’re halfway through 2025—can you believe it? That makes now the perfect time to pause and reflect on your One Word for our June challenge!

Below is our June linkup for your One Word posts. Scroll down to link a blog post about your word or to share a comment about it.

Is your word still working for you?

• If yes—wonderful! Keep reading for some fresh ideas to keep it alive.
• If no—no shame in changing it. Seriously. This practice is about you. Give yourself permission to pivot.

You’re not alone if you feel the need to switch gears. Here’s a great read from Gretchen Rubin. It’s about resolutions, not One Word choices, but it applies just the same:

3 Reasons to Give Up Your Resolution

Your June One Word Challenge

Here is this month’s challenge, whether you’re starting over with a new word or pushing through with the same one. Choose one or all three practices for a mid-year reset:

1. MORNING WORD RITUAL

For a few weeks each morning, try journaling, voice-noting, or just asking yourself:

“How can I embody my word today?” or “Where did I see my word show up yesterday?”

I’ve been keeping a daily bullet list lately of my One Word Ripple.

Here are a few notes I’ve jotted down:

• Pressed my package close to my heart before mailing it, hoping my love ripples onto the receivers when they open it
• Amazed at Sonnie Hereford telling how he was the first Black child to integrate Alabama public schools in 1963—many ripples followed
• Scrubbed the bathroom thoroughly so Jeff’s virus wouldn’t ripple into me (it didn’t—whew!)
• Enjoyed the older men of Rusty Strings sing and play songs from our youth on 3rd Thursday—the memories ripple on
• Watched my grandson’s gymnastic class like I once watched his mom’s—a living ripple

2. LENS CHECK-IN

Set a calendar reminder once a week for a month to answer this question:

“How might I approach this decision/problem/mood differently if I applied my word?”

Use your word as a filter.

I asked myself this question last week: How can I better choose between the activities ahead of me this week, using Ripple as a filter? 

It was helpful. Here’s my answer:

When choosing how to spend the next few days, I want to say yes to activities that will strengthen connections—with others or with myself. Even small choices can shape what’s ahead, so I want to choose activities that ground me in presence, care, and meaning. I’ve noticed those moments ripple the farthest.

3. WHISPER NOTES

Leave sticky notes or phone wallpapers with simple reminders using your word in a sentence:

For example: “I choose GRACE before urgency today” or “Let COURAGE speak louder.”

Here are a few sticky notes I put around my house about Ripple:

If you blog, share a post below with YOUR answers. The One Word linkup is open today through midnight on Wednesday, July 9.

You can also share updates with our One Word group on Facebook.

Let this mid-year moment refresh your One Word journey—whether you’re continuing strong or beginning again. 

I’m cheering you on!

Are you still using your One Word? Would you like to change it?

Share your thoughts here.

Looking ahead: Our July linkup opens on Friday, July 25. Plan to join us with an update about your One Word.

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