I changed my mind.
So I thought my word of 2026 would be EMERGE. But the more I thought about it, the more that didn't feel quite right. Emerge carries a sense of coming out, a revealing, a surfacing, an appearing. As if I’d been in hiding but was now stepping into the light. And that didn’t feel quite right.
Reflecting on 2025 and visioning 2026 with Andrea Scher in her Manifest 2026 Zoom today with an incredible group of women, I changed my mind. And what kept coming to me was ….
READY.
As in, LET’S GO 2026.
Nerves, wonder, curiosity? Yep, still there. But ready for it.
Fear of failure? Almost always. But ready for that, too.
New adventures, offerings and attempts at connecting? Hell yeah, READY for it!
Hat/Tip to my friend Maura who reminded me of this section in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and here’s to reaching for our figs, making choices and being READY to dive in this year!
