Excited for a New Year: Encouragement for 2025

As we have crossed into the year 2025, many people will no doubt be full of excitement, anticipating what opportunities await them. No one doubts that there will be challenges, but the hope for things to be better, an inspiration that what is ahead of them, builds a momentum for progress and achieving bigger and better things. If you’re like me, you’ve done much reflection on the previous year and determined that this new year will be different. What will make this new year different isn’t merely the fact that it is a new year. You must determine that you will do something different, and approach things differently than how you approached them in times past. 

I recall someone once saying that to accomplish something different, you have to consider the person you must become in order to see the results you desire. What are the areas of your life that have not panned out the way you hoped? What have people that you’ve looked to as successful in the areas that you want to become better at done that was different than what you have done? Answering those questions allows you to determine what price you’re willing to pay to obtain the outcome you desire.  

The person that shared these ideas was at one time a businessman, pastor, and corporate trainer. This person transitioned into a person who is now in broadcasting. It required the development of a different set of skills that was not originally a part of their makeup. They had to study a different form of communicating, the ability to reach a different audience, and how to have a different form of influence in that different cultural context. 

As we move through this new year, ask yourself who must I become, what skills I must develop, to have a different reach, impact, and influence in the context that I desire to have that is different than what I had before. Who do you want to be in relationship to those you love and those you like? Who do you have to become to achieve your dreams and goals that you’ve set for yourself? 

This isn’t just about making a resolution. It’s more about creating an internal reformation. We can be so resolved that we can’t do something because we’re so used to the person we’ve always been and in part fearful that those around us will not like who we are attempting to become. Of course, what helps this is being proactive to inform those around you that this is necessary so that you can make the proper realignments to get from where you are to where you want to be. I must celebrate my wife for being such a person who is becoming such a person who has determined that she must put those around her on alert that things must change so that the past does not repeat in this new year.  

I hope that as you are getting a rush of excitement for this new year, you are also repositioning yourself to reform yourself into the person you need to be to see the results you hope to achieve by the end of the year.