Redefine your Goals for a powerful 2025

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If what we want is to start the year with a lot of strength and courage, it is necessary that we know how to set the goals we have to achieve.

It is impossible not to start a new year and not have new expectations, to want to improve what we did last year, and if we did well last year, then improving what was well done is a good option. However, the best goals to set are those derived from being able to improve what we did well last year, since many times what we want to improve is derived from aspects such as shame, guilt or even the fact of not feeling self-sufficient.

Have we ever wondered why most New Year's goals fail before February?

One of the reasons why I believe they fail is because even though we have the good intentions of improving, we are not improving, we are simply correcting something that was wrong in the past, and when we evaluate the objectives achieved, we see that we did not make much progress, since they were not achievements to advance but to correct.

Some examples of setting as a goal projects that were mistakes in the past are:

Weight loss: we shouldn't set this as a goal, because it is assumed that if we are constantly taking care of ourselves we wouldn't have to spend time and energy on something that is supposed to be right.

Save money: If we are undisciplined and we have a disaster with our finances, in the end we are correcting, this would not be a goal of growth but of correction.

In the end, everything that we set as a goal to correct something that is supposed to be well done, makes us not advance in real development objectives, but simply end up being objectives and plans of correction that makes us remain the same people without progress, which is why if we want to start the year on the right foot, it is necessary to establish development objectives and not corrections.

What we should not do is to establish goals that start with: I have to do such and such a thing, because most likely what we have to do is a correction, on the contrary, they should be development goals and real changes.