Ready to set your 2025 goals? Here are the three questions you need to get started.
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Every year around this time, the typical overachiever confronts 2 important questions:
- What did I achieve this past year?
- What do I want to achieve in the next 12 months?
Unfortunately, our inner perfectionist plays an outsized role in our response, and we end up critically reviewing the past and trying to make up for it by setting outrageous goals for the future.
The process leaves us deflated and rarely generates the type of momentum we need.
I’d like to suggest a different set of questions.
- What are the top 2 lessons I realized in 2024 and how will this make me better in the future? This turns a “failure” into an opportunity for improvement.
- What are my top 2 achievements and why am I proud of each one? This forces you to celebrate the good work that you’ve forgotten about chasing the next big thing.
- What is the most important personal and professional goal I’d like to achieve in 2025? Narrowing it down to one challenges the overachiever in you to walk away from winning a goal-setting competition.
Above all, remember this as you strive to achieve your goal:
The person you become in the process is far more important than achieving the goal itself.
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—CJ McClanahan
Speaker | Advisor | Recovering Overachiever
CJ McClanahan
