Leadership-life Fit: Close out this Year and Prepare to Welcome 2025

Creating time for self-reflection to learn, celebrate, and close-out a year offers opportunities to reframe, refocus, and refuel. Schedule an hour or so with yourself. Grab your journal, laptop, or plain old notebook, and dig in.  
 
Feel free to reflect on all the following questions or only those questions that really resonate. 
  
Saying Farewell to 2024

1. How have I grown as a leader? As a person?  
2. How do the people closest to me say I’ve grown this year?
3. What is different about me now as compared to this time last year?
4. Of what from this year am I most proud?
5. What is the most awesome thing that happened this year?
6. What is the most difficult thing that happened this year?
7. Did these things happen TO me or FOR me?
8. What did I learn about myself from each of these?
9. What are the three most essential things I learned OVERALL that I want to make sure I “take with me" into 2025?
10. Who were my greatest champions and advocates?
11. What relationships did I create? Grow? Release?
12. How did I contribute to others' success?
13. What do I KNOW is TRUE about my character after this year? (What hills did I die on and why?)
14. Where did I rise?
15. Where did I stumble? Did I give myself grace?
16. Where can I give myself more grace moving into 2025?
17. What was my biggest time suck this year?
18. What time management strategy served me best this year?
19. Where did I step out of my comfort zone?  
20. What did I do to improve my leadership-life fit?
21. For what am I most grateful this year?
22. What is my purpose as I leave 2024 and move into 2025? What do my friends say when asked why they’re friends with me? (keep asking your friends why with this one until they get to the root of why you’re friends)

Within the opening week or two of 2025, schedule an hour or so with yourself and consider what you want out of the coming year. 
 
Welcoming 2025

1. What kind of leader do I want to become this year? What kind of person?  
2. What skills do I want to learn and strengthen?  
3. How do I want to show up for myself and others this year?
4. What new habit would I love to own? What routine/s might I create to support that?  
5. What is one positive belief (affirmation) I am going to reinforce?
6. What relationships do I want to create and build in 2025?  
7. What are the 2-3 most important things I want to create this next year?  
8. How do I want to contribute this year?
9. What kind of leadership-life fit am I claiming for 2025? What is my plan for making that happen?
10. What will I say NO to?  
11. What criteria will cause me to say YES?
12. What do I see is possible for me this year?
13. What do I see is possible for our team / the people I lead / my family / etc.? (Anyone you love and/or lead.)  
14. What is the impact I want to have this year?  
15. What barriers do I anticipate? How might I remove them?  
16. What have I learned from 2024 that will inform my leadership in 2025?
17. When I complete the close-out of 2025 next December, what will be the most important thing upon which I reflect?
18. What is my word for 2025 and why?