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Nov 2025
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Choosing Your Word for the Year

Scott Smith - Motivation and Coaching
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Think having a word of the year means picking one generic term and calling it good? I tried that. It didn't work. Last year I went with "joyful" and it was solid. But this year I realized something during an Inner Circle call that changed everything. One word isn't enough if it doesn't tell you exactly what to do. My clients were throwing out words like "f ... Show More
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