Lessons Learnt, Advice Given

Welcome to 2025 and the start of a new year.

We are already a month in, and February usually offers a return to routine - perhaps you're back at work; the kids have returned to school; and weekend sport might be restarting.

Now, with Christmas, New Year and the holidays in the rear view mirror, it may seem a perfect time to sit down and set some goals for the weeks, months, and year(s) ahead. And it is (remembering anytime is a good time to set goals), but before you start to set those plans in motion, I would like to ask you to perhaps, take a different approach this year.

Before you look ahead, I would like you to look back at where you were at the start of 2024 , and where you are now, and consider asking yourself a couple of questions:

• Are you happy with what you achieved, and/or the progress you made over the past 12 months?

• What worked for you in gaining that progress?

• What could you have done better?

And then the important one.

If you could go back to the start of 2024, knowing what you know now 12 months on, what would you tell yourself?

Don't rush this one. Take time to think about your answer - What would you tell yourself 12 months ago?

By looking back at the year gone by, and identifying what worked, what perhaps didn't and the lessons we learnt along the way, we are ready to then set out our plans for the year ahead, giving ourselves the best opportunity of personal growth and achievement.

Have a great 2025.