Reflecting on 2024

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As each year comes to a close, many people will take some time to look back and reflect. And for a lot of us, we end up feeling that we didn’t accomplish as much as we wanted. That’s how every year would end for me, looking back with a glass half empty with all the missed goals, where I fell short, or where life got in the way. Sound familiar?

Today’s episode kicks off a special four-part Miracle Year Series, in which I share my strategies and tools for reflecting on 2024 and creating a vision for 2025. This will all lead up to the Miracle Year Live Event on January 8th, when we’ll bring everything together.

Today, I’ll walk you through four simple steps to help you recognize your progress this year and celebrate your wins, no matter how small they seem. Because when you take the time to reflect, you gain clarity about what’s working, what you’ve learned, and what you’re capable of. And that clarity is the foundation for creating an incredible 2025.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Moving forward starts with understanding where you’ve been
  • Progress isn’t linear, ups and downs are to be expected
  • Celebrate every small victory because they matter
  • Every experience, good or bad, is an asset if you choose to learn from it
  • Falling short of a goal isn’t failure. It’s feedback.
  • Gratitude reveals the abundance you already have

 

 

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[INTRODUCTION]

 

Hal Elrod: Hello, friends, and welcome to this special episode of the Achieve Your Goals podcast. I’m your host, Hal Elrod. And I could not be more excited to kick off a brand-new Miracle Year series, that’s right, four-episode series that I’ve never done before. I think I’ve done as many as maybe three episodes, but in the past, I’ve typically done a single episode on how to make the coming year the best year of your life.

 

But this year, I’m going all out with four specific episodes. Episode 1, today, reflecting on 2024 Lessons Learned, Wins Celebrated, and Improvements for 2025. Episode 2, next week, Setting the Foundation for 2025, Clarifying Your Vision and Your Values. And then the following week, Episode 3 will be Optimizing Your Morning Routine. Surprise, surprise. But we’re going to talk about examining your current Miracle Morning or morning routine or lack thereof, and then how to really dial it in to achieve your goals in the new year. And then Episode 4 will be Taking Action and Staying Committed, Turning Resolutions into Results. Because it’s one thing to get excited to set your goals and even make a plan, but for all of us, one of the hardest things to do is actually to do what we thought we were going to do, we said we were going to do, we intended to do. Maybe we even committed to do. But then how do we follow through? So, that’s what the fourth episode will be all about.

 

And that will be a four-week series that will culminate in the Miracle Year Live Event on January 8 from 10 a.m. Central Time to 2 p.m. Central Time. And for clarification, at the end of today’s episode, I accidentally said it was Eastern Time, but that was a mistake. To be clear, this event, you can mark your calendar today. We’ll have more details next week. It is, in fact, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central Time. So, mark your calendar now and I’ll have more details on how you can join that event probably by next week’s episode.

 

So, this is the first of four-episode series, and today is designed help you reflect on 2024. I will guide you through a structured reflection process to help you gain clarity, celebrate your progress, and extract valuable lessons that will create a foundation to fuel your success in 2025. So, my promise to you is that by the end of today’s episode, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to reflect on your year in a way that re-energizes you, builds confidence, inspires gratitude, and provides clarity for what’s next for you. So, I encourage you to pause this episode now and grab a journal because I’m going to lead you through journaling prompts for each of these four areas of reflection today.

 

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And last but not least, the podcast is brought to you by the Miracle Morning App. It is the app that brings the book to life, provides you with consistency and accountability to follow through with your Miracle Morning. It is free to download and it’s got a variety of features in the free version, and there is a premium version that you can upgrade to that has over 200 guided SAVERS tracks. You can literally hit play, complete your Miracle Morning, not to mention over 500 affirmations prompts, journaling prompts, visualization prompts, you name it. And you can get a seven-day free trial of the premium version of the app today. And that’s in the App Store or the Google Play store.

 

All right, without further ado, today, we’re starting the series with one of the most important practices that I believe is the most overlooked practice, but sets the foundation for growth and success. And that is reflection. Here we go.

 

[INTERVIEW]

 

Hal Elrod: All right, So, if you’re like me, you might naturally focus more on looking ahead to your goals and your dreams and your plans rather than taking time to look back and reflect on the progress you’ve made, possibly assessing the mistakes that you’ve made, the lessons learned, how you can move forward. And I have learned through experience that taking the time to reflect on the past is equally, I could even argue in some ways, more valuable than looking ahead, especially it’s crucial to effectively be able to make plans for the future. And why is that? It’s because it allows you to acknowledge yourself and celebrate your progress, which we often overlook, to learn from our experiences and then refine our approach moving forward based on what has worked well up until this point and what hasn’t worked well up until this point.

 

So, I want to talk about why reflection matters. So, have you ever finished a year feeling like you didn’t accomplish as much as you wanted, right? My hand’s up. I mean, that used to be every year for me. The year would end, I’d be looking at the glass as half empty and realized I did not hit all my goals. I fell short here. I fell short here. Or maybe you set big goals, but life got in the way and you lost momentum along the journey. Reflection is the antidote to that because it helps us connect the dots between where we were, where we are now, and where we want to go next.

 

Now, personally, when I first experienced this was– I think it was 2008, was the first year that I journaled every day. I bought a journal called The Winners Journal. And in that journal, I wrote, it was dated each day, right? So, if you missed a couple of days, like you looked at your journal, you saw they were blank. It wasn’t just a blank journal. It was actually dated. So, you’d go, “Oh, I missed Tuesday and Wednesday. I need to go back and reflect on what I did on those days.”

 

So, at the end of the year, there was value every day in the journaling process. But to me, the biggest, the exponential value came at the end of the year when I was able to look back and reflect by reading my daily journal entries. Now, before I started that reflection process, if you were to ask me, how was your year, Hal, right? If I was just thinking to myself, it would have been the same thing I just said a minute ago, finishing the year, feeling like I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to. And I would have been like, “Oh, man, I just would focus on the negative. I fell short. I didn’t make as much money as I wanted to. I didn’t save as much as I wanted to. I didn’t exercise as much as I wanted to. I fell off this one goal halfway through the year. I gave up and I got distracted.” And that would have been this negative mindset that I would have been in.

 

However, as I was reading through my journal entries and reflecting as you’re going to go through this process today, I realized and remembered, “Oh, my gosh, I forgot about that.” “Oh, yeah, I forgot I did that.” “Oh, yeah, I overcame that challenge.” “Oh, yeah, I read that book.” “Oh, yeah, I started that practice.” “Oh, yeah, I accomplished that.” And it was over and over and over. And I had a whole list of– and I’m going to give you these four lists that you’re going to make, have your journal handy, but to reflect. So, as you’re going through and you’re reflecting for me, I was looking at my wins throughout the year and celebrating. I was identifying the lessons that I learned. I was acknowledging areas of improvement. I was writing down what I was grateful for. I was going through this really thoughtful process that I’m going to guide you through today, which I think I learned, by the way, from– I think I probably first learned some version of this from the book, Your Best Year Yet by Debbie Ford, I think. Don’t quote me on that. I’m going off memory.

 

But in case you don’t know, I used to lead an event called Best Year Ever Blueprint every year for six years. And so, because of that, I went on Amazon and I googled How to Have Your Best Year Ever. And I ordered and read every single book on how to have the best year of your life, which is why this is such an area of- it’s a passion for me. It’s an expertise that I’ve developed over time and constantly iterated and tried to make it my own and make it better.

 

But at the end of that year, because of the journal entries that I went through in reflecting and writing down the things I’m going to have you write down today, I went, “Wow, that was the best year of my life.” And I want you to think about that for a second. Without reflection, if all I did was what I had done before, what most of us do, which is look ahead, okay, this year wasn’t great. But next year is going to be better, my best year ever, right? I would have gone into the new year the same way that you probably have before, which is feeling like, man, I’m somewhat of a failure. I didn’t accomplish everything that I wanted to, yet somehow, I’m going to magically muster up the confidence and the energy and the discipline that I need this year, like this delusional optimism. Like, I’m going to make it happen.

 

Because I went through this process that you’re going through today and I reflected, it completely shifted my mindset from one of not enough, scarcity, insufficiency, lack of confidence, failing, to one of abundance, to one of empowerment, to one of self-confidence because I became self-aware that, oh, wait, I actually did a lot more this year than I even recalled that I did. So, reflection is powerful because it creates self-awareness, right? That’s what I’m talking about. It’s like I wasn’t even aware of the things that I accomplished, that I overcame. But it helps us see what’s working in our lives and what isn’t. And it’s important to acknowledge both.

 

And it also gives us a chance to acknowledge ourselves and celebrate our progress, which is something that we often skip because we’re so focused on what’s next. But when we acknowledge and celebrate even the smallest wins, it builds our confidence. It reinforces the belief that we are capable of achieving our goals and it allows us to enjoy what is, rather than constantly feeling like what is isn’t enough. When I say what is, I mean, where we are, who we are, what we’ve accomplished, right? That’s what is. That’s reality. And by celebrating that, we can create the confidence and the enjoyment that we are striving for. But if we’re always focused ahead and not looking at the past and the present, then we never get to stop and enjoy what we actually have, what we’ve actually experienced in our lives, etc.

 

Now, look, reflection, though, is not just about celebrating. It’s also about learning. The challenges and setbacks we face are some of our greatest teachers, but only if we take the time to examine them. And here’s the key, reflection should always be approached with curiosity, number one, and self-compassion, number two. Not self-judgment, not condemnation, which is often how we approach reflection. We look back and we look at the negative. This isn’t about beating yourself up for what didn’t go well. It’s about asking, what can I learn from this? And then using those lessons to move forward stronger and wiser and more confident and more capable.

 

All right. So, here’s the process. This is the guided year-end reflection that we’re going to go through again. Have your journal ready. If you’re driving, I guess, pause it here and then you can come back to this when you have something to write on or your computer to type or your iPad or whatever you like to use. So, now that we’ve talked about why reflection is so important, let’s dive into the actual process.

 

Now, I walk you through four super simple steps to reflect on 2024. Celebrating your wins, number one. Identifying lessons learned, number two. Acknowledging areas of improvement, number three. And expressing and experiencing gratitude, that’s number four. Now, again, feel free to pause the episode and write your thoughts as we go. So, as we’re going through these exercises, I’m to give you a journaling prompt for reflection. You can pause after I ask the question, write it down, and go through. This is an experiential episode, if you will.

 

And again, this is one of four. So, we’re taking this, I really want to do this piece by piece as opposed to throwing all of these into one episode. And then, again, on January 8, we are going to be hosting the Miracle Year Live Event, a four-hour interactive experiential event on how to put all of these four episodes that I’m recording now together with worksheets and all sorts of good stuff.

 

All right. So, step one, celebrate your wins. So, if you have a journal, you can write that down. Step one, celebrate your wins. So, we’re going to start with what went well this year. What are you most proud of? Maybe you achieved a major goal, like running a marathon or getting a promotion or starting a business or writing a book. Or maybe your wins were quieter, but just as meaningful, like improving your relationship with someone in your life who you love. I know, for me, this year, I’ve improved my relationship with my daughter significantly. She is 15. And somewhere around between 13 and 14, she got real adversarial toward me, and our relationship started to– it was really challenging for me.

 

And of course, my first born, my daughter Sophia, she means the world to me. So, I spent a year experiencing a lot of fear and stress that I was losing connection with my daughter. So, that was last year. But this year, probably my biggest win, I mean, I’ve got a handful that I’ve written down, but one of them is absolutely transforming my relationship with my daughter. So, maybe, your win wasn’t some huge goal you achieved where it’s a measurable goal, but it was a meaningful improvement, such as in a relationship where it was sticking to a habit. It was quitting a habit. Maybe you stopped drinking soda, right? So, celebrate your wins.

 

Here’s your first journal prompt. What were my top three wins, or you can use the word accomplishments, whatever resonates with you, of 2024? So, write down, what were my top three wins or accomplishments, whatever word you like, of 2024? And by the way, the number three is arbitrary. You could write down your top five or your top 10. Don’t stop at three. But I find it’s helpful, right? When you take a number like three, okay, now I’ve got a target. I got to get to three. If you keep going, that’s great.

 

But don’t downplay your wins, even if they feel small. Every step forward, all progress is worth celebrating. And remember, progress isn’t always linear. Sometimes the biggest win is simply not giving up, right? Maybe you set a goal this year. Maybe you didn’t achieve it, but you didn’t give up. And maybe you’re still working towards it. Maybe you realized it’s going to take longer than you thought. You might remember, I share the story sometimes about when I set the goal to sell a million copies of the Miracle Morning, it was to change one million lives one morning at a time when the book first came out in 2013. And genuinely, I was in that delusional optimism state where I thought, I’m going to– I don’t know, I believe in myself. I can do anything. I’m going to reach a million people with the Miracle Morning book this year. I’m going to sell a million copies of the book. And that year, I sold 13,000 copies. So, I was 987,000 copies short of my goal.

 

But a win for me was that (a) I sold 13,000 copies of the book and changed 13,000 lives plus any ripple effect and I was not giving up. I committed to try again year two. And when I didn’t achieve the goal year two, I committed for year three and then year four and then year five. And then it took six years to achieve that goal. But you understand that, like the perspective here is that all of that’s a win. It was a win that I– I might not have accomplished the goal, but it was a win that I made progress toward the goal and it was a win that I wasn’t giving up on the goal.

 

So, again, for you, don’t downplay your wins, big or small, count every step. And if you had a journal this year, that makes it easier. You just go through your daily journal entries and you are able to see, oh, yeah, I went for some jogs, I did some this. I improved this area of my life. I overcame this challenge, whatever it is for you. So, do not downplay them, and really amplify them is what I would say. Amplify those wins and give yourself credit. Too often, we’re like, that wasn’t that big of a deal. Other people do bigger and better things, so I don’t really count that, like, no, acknowledge yourself, amplify your wins. All right? That is step one.

 

Step two, identify lessons learned. Identify lessons learned. So, as you’re going through, reflect on the challenges that you faced in 2024 and the lessons that they taught you. Challenges can be frustrating in the moment, but they are often where we grow the most. What is it, a great quote from, what is his name? I forget his name. Every experience, good or bad, is an asset if you choose to learn from it. John Reese, that is his name. Every experience, good or bad, is an asset if you choose to learn from it. I don’t know where, I used to have that quote up on my wall. I’m looking around and I don’t know where it is. I moved to the new office. I don’t know where it is.

 

But really, our challenges might, in the moment, we don’t like them. We don’t want them. We try to avoid them, but they are often where the greatest lessons and opportunities for growth and improvement lie. All right. So, here’s your next prompt in your journal. What are the most important lessons I learned this year? And how will I apply them in 2025? It’s a long question. I’ll say it again. What are the most important lessons I learned this year? And how will I apply them in 2025? For example, maybe you learned the importance of setting boundaries or maybe you realized that procrastination was holding you back. Whatever the lesson, think about how you can carry it forward into the new year.

 

And again, often, the lesson, by the way, doesn’t have to only come from your challenges. Let me clarify something. Very often, if you do something well, it might come from your wins. You might go, oh, I actually realize that I started doing date nights with my spouse every week. And this is true for me, by the way. This is a win for me and a lesson. And when we do our date nights, I realize that’s a win for me. Also, I realize that’s a huge lesson that enables us to connect at a deeper level.

 

I talked with my wife this year on a few, just like a month ago. I had a speech in Puerto Rico. And I give speeches all over the place, and very often, they’re in, like boring– what she would call a boring city. She’s like, I don’t want to go to Oklahoma, or like, no offense if you live in Oklahoma, but whatever. There’s like a certain place I used to go to. For example, I used to speak in North Dakota when I spoke at colleges, like when we were just starting out, we just got married. And I would go speak in North Dakota at colleges in the winter when it was negative seven degrees. So, that would be an example of, I would invite my wife to go with me. She’s like, “Yeah, no thanks. I think I’ll pass on that one.”

 

But anyway, Puerto Rico, she came with me and we went down there for four nights and we experienced what Matthew Kelly calls in his book The Rhythm of Life, carefree timelessness, which is where you don’t have to watch the clock. You’re not responsible to anybody else. You just literally get to experience and enjoy this carefree timelessness. And it was so rejuvenating for our relationship, for our marriage. And we had it. And I go, “When was the last time we had a vacation like this?” And she said, “Before the kids. No, before you had cancer.” So, it’s been like seven years since her and I went on a vacation like that. So, it was a win. It was also a huge lesson. And now, it’s in our calendar that her and I, at least once a year and ideally twice a year, are going to go on a vacation without the kids to be able to rejuvenate our relationship and our marriage.

 

So, your lessons learned can come from your wins, things you learned based on doing it right that you want to continue because how often do we do something right. We implement a habit and then we forget and then we fall off track and we’re not doing it anymore. So, lessons learned from your wins and also lessons learned often, more often than not, from the challenges, from the mistakes that you made, from the things that you’re, oh, man, yeah, I could have done that better, should have done that differently. So, that’s a lesson learned. I’m not going to beat myself up. I’m going to implement it to make this next year more effective. So, again, that journaling prompt was one of the most important lessons I learned this year, and how will I apply them in 2025?

 

All right, step three, acknowledge areas for improvement. And it goes without saying you should leave space for you to do this. And if you didn’t, if you just are writing the steps right after the other and there’s no space to actually do the journaling prompts and, of course, do that on another page, again, probably goes without saying. But number three is acknowledge areas for improvement. So, let’s look at the goals that you didn’t quite hit or the habits that you need to change, right? So, maybe you have some bad habits in place. Maybe you’re eating late at night or you’re putting off the things that you need to do until you’re tired, right?

 

So, for example, Brian Tracy wrote the book Eat That Frog! And it’s the idea that if you had to eat a frog, nobody would want to eat a frog, but if you had to eat a frog, the best time to do it would be first thing in the morning so that you don’t have to dwell on it all day long. And it would take up all your mental bandwidth, right? Just eat the frog, get it done. I mean, it’s the habit of doing the hardest thing or the most uncomfortable thing first, so that everything else is easier after that.

 

So, that’s an example. If you tend to procrastinate and put off the most important things until later and then they do you– and we all procrastinate on certain things. Nobody’s perfect in that area, but that might be an area of improvement. So, look at the goals that you didn’t quite hit or the habits that need to be changed. And I want to emphasize this, falling short on a goal isn’t failure. It is feedback. Say that again. Falling short on a goal isn’t failure. It is feedback. The only way to fail is to give up.

 

Back to that example of me trying to reach a million people on the Miracle Morning, right? At the end of the year, I was 987,000 copies short. It was 98.7% short of my goal. Think about that, 98.7% short of my goal. Now, I could have seen it as a failure, but instead I saw it as feedback and I went, “What could I have done differently?” And I tried to do better. And the next year, I did a little bit better. And every year, I continued to look for the feedback based on the goals that I failed to reach. There’s that word failed, that I fell short, right? I didn’t reach them and I looked for the feedback.

 

This is an opportunity. When you look at a goal that you fell short on, it’s an opportunity to ask yourself, what held me back and what can I do differently next time? And most often, what held me back? The answer is, “Well, me.” It’s usually something that you did or didn’t do. But that’s why that follow-up question is, okay, what held me back and what can I do differently next time? So, here’s the prompt. What goals or habits did I fall short on? And why? This is a huge area of self-transparency. It’s often called brutal honesty. What goals or habits did I fall short on? And why?

 

And that question, that clarity, from a place of, as I said earlier, a place of compassion, a place of curiosity, you’re not beating yourself up, but you’re just getting curious and you’re having compassion that, yeah, I fell short on some goals, so did Hal. So does everybody, right? Like, cool. Why did that happen? And if you’re really honest with yourself and you assess what around your mindset or your behaviors or your habits or some logistical challenges, maybe your environment isn’t set up for success, but when you get clear on which goals or habits you fell short on and why, now you have feedback that you can implement to make this coming year much better.

 

See, this is why not reflecting on the past is such a huge disservice to your future. It’s the reflection that sets the foundation for you to make the coming year the best year of your life. And that’s why this is the topic of episode number one of these four episodes. And by the way, in terms of the goals or habits you fell short on and why, maybe it was lack of time or focus or accountability. Whatever it was, write it down and start thinking about how you can address those obstacles in the year ahead. And I should say in the weeks ahead to prepare for the year ahead.

 

Step four, this is the fourth and final step for this reflection process. Let’s end with gratitude. Gratitude shifts our focus from what’s missing to what’s already abundant in our lives. I am re-reading a book right now by my friend Kevin Clayson. I actually wrote the foreword to this book years ago. And it’s called FLIP the Gratitude Switch. It’s a great book on the importance of gratitude in our lives and how we can, like what are the habits and practices? And Kevin really makes it tangible and practical and implementable. That’s a word, I think that’s a word in that book, FLIP the Gratitude Switch. But gratitude shifts our focus from what’s missing to what’s already abundant in our lives. Take a moment to think about the people, the experiences, and the opportunities that made this year special.

 

And again, if you have a journal to go back, that’s ideal. If you don’t have a journal, if you didn’t journal, (a) start journaling, right? But I know a lot of you are Miracle Morning practitioners and the S in SAVERS, the final S is for scribing, which is a fancy word for journaling, so I know many of you have journals. But if you don’t, you might go back through your photos. That’s another way you can go back and reflect on this year and the people, the experiences, the opportunities that made this year special, go through your photos. If I go through my photos, I see that I took my son to his first concert ever, went and saw Connor Price in person, front row. We were standing front row. You didn’t even buy front row seats, it’s just whoever got in first and ran to the front, but we did and we made it. It was amazing, right?

 

So, all I would need is my photos to be reminded of that on book– I mean, it was, gosh, I can just picture it now. I can picture the photos that I took that night with such a special experience. I’m grateful for that. I’m grateful that I started driving my daughter to school every single day and picking her up every single or almost every single day. There are occasional days where I can’t. But I’d say, 3.8 out of 5 days a week, almost every day, but four to five days. So, I’m grateful for that because she told me, after I took her to school for a few weeks, she said, “Dad, I don’t know what it is, but I think you taking me to school has transformed our relationship.” And I mentioned to you that we’d been struggling from age 13 and a half to 14 and a half, if you will. And now, our relationship is, according to her, she told her big sister, which is my executive assistant, Tiffany. So, she’s not her blood big sister, but she’s like a big sister. They spend a lot of time together.

 

And Tiffany said, “Hey, I want you to know that Sophia said, your relationship is the best it’s ever been.” And I teared up when I heard that because she had become a teenager. And I mean, I found out I wasn’t the only dad that experienced this disconnect with his daughter at that age. But really, it hurt my feelings. It was really hard to deal with. And so, that was a huge win, an element of gratitude for me. So, again, take a moment to think about the people, the experiences, and the opportunities that made this year special. Here’s the journaling prompt. Your last prompt for today is this, who or what am I most grateful for in 2024? Who or what am I most grateful for in 2024? And here’s a bonus challenge. Take one further step to express that gratitude. After you write down who or what you are most grateful for in 2024, this is the bonus challenge, send them a text, write a thank you note, or even share it with someone in person.

 

My wife is an incredible host. We just had 20 people here for Thanksgiving. I mean, she does this every year, but she goes over and above to make the holidays extraordinary in terms of her decorating and her cooking and her logistical organization, like she does so much. And I have been expressing gratitude to her over and over and over and just telling her how much I love her and appreciate her and how she– I told her, and I guess what I said, “Sweetie, I think, you’re like in the top 1% of people on the planet that go to the lengths that you go to, to make people feel loved and nurtured and cared for and welcomed.” So, I told her she’s a one percenter.

 

All right, so quick review of those four steps that I’m inviting you to journal about. Step one is to celebrate your wins. Step two is to identify the lessons learned from this past year. Step three is acknowledge areas for improvement. And step four is experience heartfelt gratitude. And as you finish reflecting on 2024, as you spend time doing this, again, schedule an hour or a week or part of your Miracle Morning, this could be during your scribing time, whatever works for you, but make time in your calendar to do this. And this is, you can call it your miracle year time because again, this is episode one of four.

 

And then on January 8, mark your schedule, 10 a.m. Central, to 2 p.m. Central, we are having a Miracle Year Live Event. And in the coming weeks, I will give you all the details on how you can be a part of that. But as you’re preparing for that, these next few weeks going into the new year, schedule time, have your best year ever time. So, for me, I have every other day from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. is my Plan My Miracle Year for 2025. That is a recurring appointment in my schedule every other day. It’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Plan My Miracle Year for 2025. And we are roughly a month before the year starts, but this isn’t something that you wait until after Christmas or whatever and you’re feeling rushed and you don’t have time to think through it. The more time you spend preparing for your best year ever, your miracle year, the more prepared and equipped and capable you will be when the new year starts.

 

So, as you’re reflecting on 2024, you might already feel a greater sense of clarity about what matters most to you. And that is the beauty of reflection. It not only helps you understand where you’ve been, but it sets the stage for where you’re going. And speaking of where you’re going and where we’re going next week, we’re going to take this one step further by focusing on clarifying your vision and your values for 2025. We will dive deep into how to align your goals with your values and create a road map for your best year yet, your miracle year.

 

But for now, I encourage you to schedule time for your reflection, to enjoy the process and let it guide you as you think about how you can continue to expand on your wins, integrate your lessons learned, and make improvements that will set you up to make 2025 the literal best year of your life. And I will be here every week helping you out along the way. So, until next week, I love you so much. Thank you for being a listener of the Achieve Your Goals podcast and a member of the Miracle Morning Community. And I will talk to you next week.


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“Reflection is powerful because it creates self-awareness.”

“The more time you spend preparing for your best year ever, your miracle year, the more prepared and equipped and capable you will be when the new year starts.”

“I have learned through experience that taking the time to reflect on the past is equally, I could even argue in some ways, more valuable than looking ahead.”

“Falling short on a goal isn’t failure. It is feedback. The only way to fail is to give up.”

 

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