Four leading questions to ask yourself before 2025
Are you ready for 2025? Here are some questions to ask before embarking on the New Year...
We are at the edge of 2024 and about to start the New Year with a bang. But in order to focus on the new and the possibilities that come with that, we must look back.
Here are some reflective questions to ask yourself this New Year's Eve. These will aid in drawing a meaningful and mindful wrap to the year that was while being able to look ahead in the most positive of ways.
1. Reflection on what happened this year
- Think about your highlights of 2024 - the moments that made you feel fulfilled, happy, and joyous.
- What did you find challenging about 2024, and how did you overcome these?
- What were your 2024 goals - did you achieve them? Don't focus on feelings of failure, but rather on how you have grown this year.
2. Evaluate your life
- Ask yourself: Am I happy? Are you satisfied with yourself and where you are in your relationships? Hold onto things and people that make you feel good and let go of those that don't (this applies to the parts of you that also make you feel good and those that don't).
- Assess your physical and mental health. What have you done to grow in these areas, and how can you do better in the New Year?
- Does your career and your daily life bring you joy? Lead from a place of gratitude if this topic overwhelms you.
- Think about the moments in your year when you felt you could do better. How can you do better in 2025.
3. Perseverance and looking forward
- What do you want to achieve in 2025?
- Think about goals for the New Year based on personal growth, career milestones or goals, relationships, health, travel, etc.
- Time management - how can you allocate more time for the things that bring you joy?
- Trying new things in the New Year.
- What do you want to feel this time next year when you are reviewing 2025?
4. Gratitude
- Look back at all that you are grateful for. Thank 2024 for all the good.
- What lessons did 2024 teach you, and do you want to take those lessons with you into the New Year, maybe even expand on them?
- Celebrating your wins, how did you celebrate your wins this year and how will you celebrate in 2025?
- What is something that brings you complete joy right now? Focus on this as you bring in the New Year.
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