🪩 PivotList: What is your word for 2026?

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Hi Friends,

Happy New Year, Pivoters! Or is it too late to say that? Every December, my friends and I start trading an important bit of information: What is your word or theme for the year ahead? I love hearing about what the people I love are focusing on, what energy they are calling in.

It’s also fun to look back on the year to examine how the previous word or phrase showed up. How did it weave through the events of the year? How did it reveal meaning in surprising or opposite ways than expected?

Some of my past themes have included: harmony, grace, freedom, delight, serendipity, surrender, miracles, magic, abundance, lucky, peace, healthy/wealthy/wise/grateful (yes, all four at once!), thrive, faith, and for 2025: Breakthrough. Scroll down for 2026…

I love buying something small I can wear with the word on it—one year it was a beaded bracelet on Etsy that said FAITH in small black letters. For ten years, I have also renamed whatever new Bluetooth devices I set up that year with my chosen word or theme (and an emoji, of course).

So now, for example, I listen to my “FAITH AirPods,” my “ABUNDANCE Bose,” type on my “MIRACLES MacBook Air,” or I put on my “BREAKTHROUGH Manta Sleep Mask.” It’s a way to remind me of earlier years’ themes, layered over time in one big beautiful Bluetooth list. Here’s an incomplete list of examples:

💬 What’s your word or theme for 2026? Let us know in the comments . . .

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📆 Upcoming Events

• I’m excited to be part of Mike Michalowicz’s Money, Mindset & Mastery Summit on January 27 — my session is early, at 8:40 a.m. ET, so grab your coffee or tea and join us! The day-long extravaganza kicks off his book launch for The Money Habit.

• Register to join our free Pivot Community Call later that day, on January 27 at 12:30 p.m. ET. We’ll meet for 45 minutes with a new format: a short reading from Pivot, followed by optional 3-minute shares about anything you’re working on, what you’re excited about this year, and/or challenges you’re working through.

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📈 My theme for 2026: Booked & Bountiful

I’m jumping onto the bandwagon of one of my business besties, Petra Kolber, after she landed on BOOKED & BOUNTIFUL as her theme for 2026. It bubbled up as we walked along the water in West Virginia, celebrating after speaking at the Women Warriors Summit, sharing a desire to call in even more ideal clients like that one.

Booked could mean speaking gigs (joyful for both of us) or coaching clients (for me, as I’ll be opening up spots again in 2026), or making progress on the next books we both want to write. Bountiful is about abundance in all its forms, also expressed through gratitude and service, not just what’s inbound.

My business has two main “skis,” or focus areas: Pivot for anyone navigating what’s next (thank you for being here!) and Free Time for small business owners optimizing what’s now by setting their time free through smarter systems.

⛷️ Within those two topic-tracks running in parallel, my focus this quarter includes:

• Publishing both of these newsletters twice a month

• Working on building up the Pivot keynote speaking pipeline (I’m grateful to have another thousand-person gig coming up in Las Vegas mid-February)

• Referring 1:1 coaching clients to our two new wonderful Pivot coaches: Taku Noguchi, former Googler and BetterUp’er, and Laura Sheehan, who also runs career programs at Georgetown University.

• Opening up new spots for my own Free Time 1:1 coaching, courses, and VIP days (My team member Faye and I are also piloting a new offering, Borrow My EA for a Day)

• Hosting free community calls for Pivot & Free Time, and

• Continuing creative writing in the background

💬 How about you—what are you focusing on this quarter? Let us know in the comments . . .

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👥 Work 1:1 with a Pivot Coach to Kick-Off 2026

If you are looking for more support, learn more about working 1:1 with a Pivot Coach. We work on a monthly retainer basis, with two 45-minute calls and email in between. There is no minimum or maximum, and you can cancel at any time.

🧭 For a super robust, road-tested group program, check out my friend (and very first career coach) Adrian Klaphaak’s Career Pathfinder.

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That’s it for now . . . thank you for reading!

I look forward to seeing what this new year brings to all of us :)

❤️ With Love,

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