Here's To Better In 2025

​This is the time of the year when we can become so obsessed with checking boxes that we forget to check on ourselves.

Many of us roll into 2025 after having researched new ways to eat, exercise, manage time, save money, read the bible, and countless other self-improvement ambitions. And in response, many of us have developed plans and goals and - checklists.

Listen, those who know me know I've never been big on plans and goals and checklists. I'll also be the first to admit a little bit of all of those things sprinkled in my life would probably be helpful. I guess I have just seen too many people become so consumed with the plan that they lose total sight of where they are going.

Or who they are going there with.

I have seen too many lives become about checking all the boxes to the point they lose sight of what they ever wanted to become as a result of checking all the boxes.

Checking boxes can be great accountability, for sure, until you lose sight of what you're actually accounting for.

I have a few big health goals for 2025.

I want to lose a few pounds. I want to exercise more. I want to improve my sleep. But the reason I want to do all three of those things is for one purpose. I want to feel better, and by that I specifically mean I want to have more energy and I want to feel more confident.

I could design a spreadsheet that tracks my carbs and sugar (which I know are my key to losing weight), and I could print out all my Strava reports tracking my miles, and I could have a checklist I check each night when I don't stare at a screen before going to bed. Maybe all of that would help.

But also maybe, I could get so obsessed with my lists and my reports that I'd forget to check in on me.

I could forget to ask, am I feeling better?

I'm not here to advocate for or against plans and lists. But I am here to advocate that you don't lose sight of you in your plans and lists and goals in the new year. That you don't lose sight of the better that you are aiming for. That you don't get so obsessed with your path that your forget about the you that is on it.

And the people around you on it with you.

Also, and maybe most of all, I advocate that you acknowledge that the you that is on that path is probably a lot better than you give yourself credit for. So whether you are checking boxes or not, when you check in on yourself, do so with grace.

☑️Here's to better in 2025.

☑️Here's to knowing we're already better than we know.