With the final few days of the year upon us, now is a great time to pause and reflect on how things went in 2025. You deserve to celebrate all the wins you had–big and small–before you set your sights on a new year of goals.

This week, I’m sharing some of the highlights of my year along with a framework for looking at 2025 in a judgement-free way so you can extract the wisdom you gained this year without being mean to yourself if you fell behind the goals you set last January.

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