My 2024 word of the year is...Beans.

Hear me out on this one.

I’m not a big one for New Year’s resolutions.

Challenges can be fun —I’ve embarked on budgeting and home-organization resets, taken alcohol pauses, and completed multiple yoga challenges in January — and I generally love leaning into fresh-start energy at the beginning of a new year.

But resolutions feel different from challenges: even the root word “re…