Welcome back to 2025. Hopefully you we’re privileged enough to take a break at least somewhere over the festive season. I trust you used the time to enjoy family, indulge a ‘little’, reflect, energise and maybe just forget about work and the trials and tribulations of 2024. I’m sure like most people I’ve spoken to, you are energised and excited about the year and its possibilities. Whether you’ve called them goals, resolutions, new disciplines or choices, I have no doubt you’ve at least got an idea of what ‘more’ you want out of this year as opposed to 2024, and maybe even years before that.

At the end of last year, I heard a lot of comments like:

 

  • I’m tired, even ‘gatvol’
  • I ran out of energy earlier this year than ever
  • I’m overwhelmed
  • Don’t have enough time
  • There’s just too much going on at the moment
  • I can’t wait for the year to end
  • Counting down the ‘sleepies’ to when I close/go on holiday etc.

Whilst concerning at the time, it was maybe somewhat justified at the end of what an ‘interesting’ and quite taxing year. We’ve all most certainly been on a rollercoaster ride and it hasn’t always been easy. We had elections in more than 50 democratic countries, two major ongoing regional wars never mind the smaller conflicts in many other places. Inflation was stubbornly coming down ever so slowly, interest rates weren’t falling enough, uncertainty was through the roof and many other distractions. Yet magically over a few weeks we’re now more positive, more excited and miraculously everything will change. Or will it?

Read the article on BizCommunity here: https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/do-your-2025-goals-pass-the-so-what-test-709092a