# Words to Live By 🌅

*My Words for 2025: Connection and Momentum *

By [Ankit's Pebble Jar](https://ipebbleyou.com) · 2025-01-13

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I recently came across a [tradition at Forerunner Ventures](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7282813515956895746/): choosing a single word to guide your year personally and professionally. While it seemed easy at first, I found it to be a challenging yet rewarding way to pinpoint what truly matters. Here’s what I landed on:

**Personal: Connection** 🌟

This year, I want to deepen my connection:

1.  To New York City. I don’t know exactly what this will look like yet, but I do know I want to embrace more of what NYC offers — a platform to explore, grow, and find yourself.
    
2.  To friendships, focusing on reconnection with friends and family that I was once closer with in a different time and place.
    
3.  To myself, by fostering a deeper connection to my values and aspirations through self-reflection and awareness to find more joy.
    

**Professional: Momentum** ✨

[HappyBoards](https://www.happyboards.com) is approaching its 3 year launch anniversary, and we’ve found our stride (official announcement coming later this month). 2025 is about keeping the momentum going by:

1.  Broadly sharing our mission of creating moments where people can be  #HappyTogether, the core reason and purpose behind why I founded the company.
    
2.  Building our operations to replicate HappyBoards' success in other cities.
    
3.  Experiment with new ideas! One example? We’re rolling out our first batch of HappyCandles — anyone interested in sampling them?
    

I found this exercise fun and clarifying — if you’re inspired, what’s your word for 2025? Share it with me, whether it's a word or two or even a sentence.

I Pebble You,   
Ankit  
  
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