How to Review 2024 for the Best 2025
12.30.2024
By: Shariah James
Reflecting on 2024 is crucial because it allows you to assess your successes and challenges, providing valuable insights into what worked and what didn’t. This reflection helps you set more informed and realistic goals for 2025, increasing your chances of achieving them. Use these reflection techniques for 2024 and goal setting guidelines for 2025 to make this new year, your best year yet.
Reflection Techniques for 2024
Gratitude Review:
What are 3 things you are grateful for from 2024?
How did these experiences shape your perspective?
Achievements and Challenges:
What were your biggest achievements in 2024?
What challenges did you face, and what did you learn from them?
Personal Growth:
In what ways did you grow personally or professionally this year?
What new skills or knowledge did you acquire?
Relationships:
How did your relationships evolve in 2024?
Who had the most impact on your life this year?
Goals Assessment:
What goals did you set for 2024, and how successful were you in achieving them?
What goals do you want to carry over for 2025?
Goal Setting for 2025:
Setting goals for 2025 is important because it provides you with clear direction and purpose, helping you focus your efforts on what truly matters. When goal setting, keep these general guidelines in mind:
Quality Over Quantity
Focus on setting meaningful and impactful goals rather than a large quantity. A smaller number of well-defined goals can lead to greater success and fulfillment.
3 to 5 Key Goals
Many people find that setting 3 to 5 key goals for the year strikes a good balance. This allows you to concentrate your efforts and resources without feeling overwhelmed.
Categories of Goals
Consider setting goals across different areas of your life, such as:
Faith Journey: Strengthening relationship with God.
Personal Development: Skills, hobbies, or education.
Health and Wellness: Fitness, nutrition, or mental well-being.
Career and Professional Growth: Job-related goals or networking.
Relationships: Strengthening connections with family and friends.
Financial Goals: Savings, budgeting, or investments.
Choose the most meaningful categories to focus on or 1 to 2 goals from each category but keep the goals manageable.
Prioritize
Identify which goals are most important to you. Prioritizing can help you focus on what truly matters and avoid spreading yourself too thin.
Check-in Frequency
Break down your larger goals into manageable mini-steps, allowing you to regularly check in and hold yourself accountable. If you prefer to set more goals, consider how often you’ll check in on your progress. More goals may require more frequent reviews to stay on track.
Here’s to your growth in 2025! You’ve got this!
XO,
The Kléi
