How to Make Next Year the Best Year: Ask Yourself These 7 Questions

Do you want to make 2025 your best year yet?

There are 7 questions to ask yourself that will help you:

• Step into 2025 with clarity about what you want & with a plan to make it happen
• Become inspired, energized, and in control again
• Learn & apply Mel's powerful, life-changing, science-backed, year-end ritual that she has done for over 20 years

In this episode, Mel will walk you through the 7 powerful questions, reveal her own answers, and guide you through how to answer them.

Your answers will show you what the very next steps are in your life, and help you confidently map out what you should focus on in the next 12 months.

This is the method Mel uses to set and achieve goals, and today, you’re getting the roadmap to the success, fulfilment, and happiness that you desire.

And if you’ve been a long-term listener of Mel and the podcast, you’ll recognize and love this method, as Mel invites you to reflect on and revisit how the past year went.

Fun, engaging, and deeply impactful, this episode will help you step into 2025 with purpose and momentum.

If you liked this episode, your next listen should be this one: The Top Expert Advice of the Year: The Best of the Mel Robbins Podcast

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In this episode:

• 2:43: The first step to kickstarting your best year yet. 
• 8:01: This is why reflecting on the past is the key to a brighter future.
• 16:14: How to use your setbacks and hardships to fuel your dreams.
• 24:14: The one step in goal-setting that most people miss. 
• 27:40: The simple question to ask yourself to know what you really want.
• 35:12: The expert-approved strategy to break free from bad habits.
• 40:38: Your blueprint for creating resolutions that stick.
• 44:16: How to identify the amazing things you did in the past year
• 47:22: One small action you can take today to chip away at your goals.
• 50:09: The one step you should take after listening to this episode

‍Resources:

• Scientific American: New Year’s Resolutions Are Notoriously Slippery, but Science Can Help You Keep Them
• Smithsonian Magazine: The Science of Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
• PLOS One: A large-scale experiment on New Year’s resolutions
• Harvard Business Review: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Self-Reflection
• Forbes: Turning Adversities Into Inspiration
• Pennsylvania State University: United in Resolution: How Your Family Can Make the Most of the New Year
• International Association of Relationship Research: Parenting goal pursuit is linked to emotional well-being, relationship quality, and responsiveness
• The Gottman Institute: Make Your New Year’s Resolutions a Family Affair
• History.com: The History of New Year’s Resolutions
• European Journal of Social Psychology: How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world
• Journal of Happiness Studies: Increasing well-being through teaching goal-setting and planning skills: results of a brief intervention
• Journal of Sleep Research: Do people rely more on habits when sleepy? An ecological momentary assessment study
• Psychology Today: Is Your New Year's Resolution Setting You Up for Failure?
• Niagara Institute: The Start-Stop-Continue Exercise: How To Conduct One (+Template)
• Journal of Research in Personality: Do mindful people set better goals? Investigating the relation between trait mindfulness, self-concordance, and goal progress
• Mel’s FREE Toolkit for Goal Setting

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