Hey Team,
While I understand that influencers and content creators and marketing people are always looking for something to hook their current campaign on, I find the hype to ‘make the most’ of the rest of 2025 to be both tiresome and tiring.
And judging by these posts, I’m sure that Sam and Catherine feel much the same way.
I’m not tell you how to feel though! If you find yourself fired up and inspired by making the most of the rest of the year – please forge ahead.
However, if you find yourself greeting the whole ‘become unrecognizable’, ‘fall reset’, ‘maximize’ approach with a weary sigh, then I invite you to take a few minutes to consider this:
We all have plans, goals, hopes, and ideas for different time frames in our lives.
Some of them work out well, some we need to adjust, and some we abandon – consciously or by default.
All of those things are perfectly normal, human things to do – they are all part of the greater contexts of our lives and, over time, some of them will matter to us more than others. And that’s totally ok.
But, while our brains tend to default to noticing what we failed to accomplish* and to keep us focused on doing more and doing better – we can also consciously choose to notice what went well, what we have already done, what worked.
We can choose to notice our victories – planned, unplanned, large, and small.
I happen to think that this is a GREAT time of year** to reflect on the things that went right so far in 2025 – the activities and events we enjoyed, the things we accomplished, the stuff we learned – and celebrate them.
And, if we feel like it, we can try to add more of those fun, victorious things into the months ahead.
It’s totally ok to add other unrelated goals, of course, that’s up to you. Just don’t think that you MUST add stuff or that you have to always be pushing yourself to go bigger and get better at everything all the time.
Oh, and while I’m at it – Don’t forget that the whole ‘end of the year’ time frame is actually pretty arbitrary – especially for personal goals – and you can start and finish things at any time that suits you.
So, Team, today and always, I invite you to notice and celebrate your victories, to go easy on yourself for the things that didn’t work out, and to be gentle and kind to yourself throughout the whole process.
Here’s your gold star for your efforts.
Go Team Us!
*While we’re at it, let’s practice going easy on ourselves about all of this stuff. I’m not suggesting that we must only do easy things and I am definitely not suggesting that we avoid challenges- doing hard things, learning, and challenging ourselves helps us to shape our lives in satisfying ways – but we don’t have to be mean to ourselves about things that don’t turn out well. That meanness feels useful, it feels like being realistic and self-disciplined, but if treating ourselves that way created good results, we’d all be superheroes by now.
**Spoiler: It’s ALWAYS a good time to notice and celebrate the good things and plan for more of them!
