Welcome to 2025 (Productive Flourishing Pulse #483)
What Are You Bringing and What Are You Leaving Behind?
Welcome to the new year!
If your 2024 was a challenging one (it was for many of us), we hope 2025 will be a better year. If 2024 was good for you, we wish for more of that for you!
In our December Tips post, we asked the question: What Will You Carry Into 2025? with an encouragement to pause and reflect. (We doubled-down on that “pause and reflect” advice in our most recent couple Pulses, too. Yes, we think it’s that important!)
Hopefully you had an opportunity to or purposely made some time to do that deep reflection on the year, to answer that question ☝🏻 and its companion one: What Are You Leaving Behind?
Sometimes I think the latter question is both easier and harder to answer. We know those difficult situations, hardships, and losses we’re happy to never experience again. But what about the lessons we learned from them? We want to carry those with us, don’t we, even as we leave the actual experiences in the past?
Also more difficult, I think, are those things we want to carry with us, but can’t. Those projects we really want to do but need to jettison in favor of other projects that are more important. Those goals or habits or even relationships that no longer serve us (present us or future us).
I don’t have any pithy tips for you on how to answer those questions (though Maghan’s pulled together some posts to help below). I just know that we all need to answer them, so we start the journey of the new year with the right stuff (and right amount of stuff) in our backpack.
Happy New Year, and Happy Journeys in it!
~Steve
Letting Go
Letting go of projects can be tough — especially the ones you care about but know aren’t the right fit for where you are right now. As you reflect on what to carry forward and what to leave behind, these posts can help:
Explore how to identify and release the mental load of projects no longer serving your goals.
Learn how to confidently defer, delegate, or drop projects that don’t need your attention right now.
Use breadcrumbs to make it easier to pause and pick up stalled or paused projects when you’re ready.
Take a Moment
A prompt to pause and reflect.
What’s one thing you absolutely are carrying with you into this new year? And what one thing are you absolutely leaving behind in 2024?
We’d love to hear what’s coming up for you.
January Planning Tips: Ready or Not
As you reflect on what to carry forward and let go, it’s also a good time to assess your readiness for what’s ahead. In our latest post, we explore how evaluating your competency, capacity, and workways can help you set the right course for 2025.
Mark Your Calendar
Plan ahead with our upcoming events. Your go-to resource for staying connected and engaged with the PF community.
Still thinking about what to let go of or how to assess your readiness for the year ahead? Join us in January for these events to get the support and clarity you need:
Leadership Strategy Session: Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 11:00 am PST
Discover how to align your goals with your team’s readiness for better outcomes.Monthly Momentum Call (MMC): Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 11:00 am PST
Explore the connection between readiness and success to align your efforts for the year ahead.
Find Your Business Flow
As you reflect on what to let go of and where to focus in 2025, flow can make all the difference. Our Find Your Business Flow program helps you build flexibility and resilience in your business, so you can stay clear and intentional while navigating challenges and creating sustainable growth.
The program kicks off on January 21st, and we’ve extended our 2024 pricing through the first week of January. If you’ve been considering joining, now is the time.
I am absolutely leaving this behind:
A FINAL GOODBYE TO MY FATHER, (EUYLESS EDWIN MILLER, SR.)
I feel sorry for you.
You were a miserable man.
You spent your life trying to hurt people smaller and weaker than you,
Because it made you feel better about yourself.
You didn't know love. You were a sad man, with a heart full of hate,
And I feel sorry for you.
I am not afraid of you anymore.
Maybe that shouldn't matter because you are dead to me,
But it matters to me.
I'm better than you. I'm stronger than you.
I'm happier than you.
And I know love, the kind of love you never had or deserved.
I'm not going to let you take anything away from me again.
I'm glad you are dead.
I forgive you for all the mean and evil things you did.
It's only by the grace of God that I can say that.
My faith sustains me.
Even though I share your name, I am nothing like you.
You are gone from my life, and now you are gone from my memory.
(EUYLESS EDWIN MILLER, JR.)