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2025: Opportunity Is What You Make of It—No More Waiting for It to Find You
Get after it—no excuses
Intro
Even when realizing that you can restart any time, refresh, open your eyes, or get a sense of new beginnings, there is something magical about the new year—clean point, refreshed energy, and putting your past year behind. While it is artificial in a sense, it really does have merit to use it for what it is. The new year, especially when it’s your fiscal year, is the relaunch of your business and your career.
The Story
It’s not about New Year’s resolutions, rather, it’s about resetting objectives, targets and goals, and your commitment to delivering results and enjoying meaningful experiences. It’s a commitment to others and to yourself in front of the world. Clarity and focus stems from that reflection and objectives to do this year differently than last year. Groundhog Day is no way to go through life, but it becomes a reality for so many. Even if you’re in the same career or role for twenty years, you can reinvent yourself every year, quarter, season, month, or whatever measure you’d like.
For content around personal renewal and reinvention, Ed Mylett has some really good stuff that is inspiring, informative, and eye-opening. Rob Dial is also solid. They both make you think and don’t allow you to make excuses or play small. I like the way Mylett puts it, essentially saying—you’re not trying to be someone else or collect Ferraris, but you’re trying to realize your full potential and leave nothing on the table. Jesse Itzler has a solid process also, with a calendar to commit to doing big shit. Meet the future ideal you and be pleased with it, not be disappointed by not living up to it. That’s how Mylett says it.
10 steps to make this the best year for becoming the new best version of you:
Reflect on what you want and that desired (realistic) timeline
Take a moment to step back to last year (and prior years if helpful) and consider what’s been holding you back and what has changed from before
Shift to this year’s goals, and consider what steps it would take to accomplish this objective
Prioritize those steps in order of starting point, considering contingencies, and include an end target
Review what roadblocks you anticipate
Think of who can help with these potential blocks, ask for help, and communicate for your own personal accountability - with colleagues, publicly, family and/or friends (based on your preference and options)
Solidify your plan and act
Get continued support from real life mentors or your own virtual personal board of advisors
Align and apply your learning activities with what you’re working on today, learning to support your actions to drive your objectives forward
Continue to assess your action, results, progress and potential iterations for your path towards your objectives
Key to achieving goals
Clarity and action. Getting crystal clear on your objectives and what’s important to you and your journey, empowers you to move mountains. Everything else follows clarity and action. So if you want 2025 to be the best year, the year where you make real progress, take action, build this list of objectives, and understand how you’re going to move towards your goals through action.
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