I've never been a fan of New Year's resolutions: They're too rigid and require a belief that you can choose the perfect set of resolutions that will be relevant throughout the entire year.

I prefer to set New Year's intentions: Big picture, open-ended ideas and mindsets that I want to focus on for the year ahead.

The 5 intentions I'm setting for 2025: (1) Recognize time as the most valuable asset, (2) Control the controllable, (3) Find joy in the small, (4) Let go of the things that no longer serve me, and (5) Go All In.

We're just over a month away from the launch of my first book, The 5 Types of Wealth.

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Question: Are you allowing your head to outsmart your gut?

Framework: The 4-7-8 Breathing Method

Welcome to the final Wednesday issue of 2024. For the third year in a row, I sent out over 100 newsletters to my subscribers—two per week, every single week. In fact, I haven't missed an issue since I started this newsletter in May 2021.

This newsletter is all about ideas—actionable ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, wealthy life.

I shared thousands of ideas here this year. Here were my 9 favorites: (1) The Main Character Question, (2) Taxes of Life, (3) 2 Pillars of Strong Relationships, (4) Winner's Game vs. Loser's Game, (5) The Stories You Tell Yourself, (6) Solomon's Paradox, (7) Seasons of Loneliness, (8) Make the Coffee, and (9) The Wealth Score.

Framework: The Grow30 Challenge

Question: What answers are hidden in the actions you avoid?

The Annual Planning Guide includes: (1) my simple goal-setting framework, (2) three system-building mental models, and (3) a strategy for tracking and adjusting throughout the year.

This annual planning process has been an immensely helpful exercise to which I would credit many of my greatest achievements. I hope that it will spark you to conduct your own annual planning process for 2025.

You can download a beautiful (and free!) printable PDF template ​​here​​.

Question: What are you doing to reveal the invisible opportunities?

Framework: The Four Quarters Technique

The end of the calendar year presents us with a unique and valuable opportunity: To reflect on the year that was and plan for the year that will be.

I started conducting a Personal Annual Review over ten years ago. It has been a transformative exercise—one that has had an outsized impact on my personal progress and growth.

The Personal Annual Review is 7 simple questions that may change your life.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm hosting a Personal Annual Review workshop on December 16. Attendees will also receive the 2024 Personal Annual Review E-Book. To register, preorder one copy of my book and submit your information and order number here.

Question: Who are your Darkest Hour Friends?

Framework: The Nova Effect

I see a lot of bad advice out there when it comes to how to do that—most of it trying to sell you on the easy way to make money.

This piece is my attempt to offer some good in a sea of bad: My honest advice to someone who wants to make a lot of money.

A sampling of the advice: The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value, there's no such thing as making it, "doing your own thing" isn't for everyone, and salesmanship is more valuable than intelligence. Read the full piece for more!

Every month, I receive hundreds of messages, emails, and questions from people all around the world. The single most common question that comes up: "I feel lost. What should I do?"

Here's an open letter to my lost younger self—with the five things I'd like to tell that version of me that would have accelerated his path to the other side.

(1) Reclaim your power; (2) Remember that the answer is found in the action; (3) Trust in the trend, not the position; (4) Create value for everyone you come across; and (5) Find your challenge-seekers.