2025 is halfway over, and if you, like me, are a little bit alarmed by that, this post is for you. Watch the video of this content below. If you prefer to read, keep scrolling.
Let’s discuss a way to evaluate how the year has gone so far, specifically the first half. And make improvements to the second half of 2025. We don’t have to just let life happen to us, right?
We can be strategic about engineering the course of our lives to some extent. For me, 2025 has been a somewhat rough year. It’s not been terrible, but I would say if I could make a facial expression for 2025, it’d be something like this:
It started poorly, and I feel like I haven’t been particularly strategic.
Perhaps I have, maybe I haven’t, but I know that I wasn’t dialed in on my goals.
The first half of the year has kind of escaped. And so I want to do it differently for the second half of the year. And I want to help you to do things differently as well, if you feel that the first half of the year could have gone better.
And so, to achieve this, I would like to share a simple framework that was actually shared with me. It was shared in a sermon in our church, a couple of weeks ago.
Here are three things to consider for improving 2025, the second half.
Take a look at all that you’ve been up to. You know, all the areas of life that you have, goals or things that you want to get accomplished, whether it’s personal, professional, or whatever, and then there are three questions to ask, and I put them in three different columns.
1. What are the things you want to keep doing?
These things are going well, let’s keep doing those. Let’s stay on the train with those things.
2. What are the things that you want to stop doing?
And be honest– these are the things that are holding you back.
3. The things that we want to start doing; the things that we know we should be doing, or that we plan to do, but we just haven’t done.
I’ll share one of mine with you. I am going to keep my habit of reading the Bible first thing in the morning because that’s extremely important to me, and it helps me stay grounded to start the day.
One of the things I’m gonna stop doing that interferes with my Bible reading time (OK, let’s be honest, it interferes with my entire day) is mindlessly scrolling on my phone on social media.
So, I am going to redouble my efforts to start my day focused and be focused throughout the day and give myself specific blocks of time to look at my phone instead of, the reflex right now, where I’m working on something and then “squirrel”, and I pick up my phone and 20 minutes are gone looking at Instagram reels.
Not very productive. That’s what I am going to stop doing.
I’m gonna be more structured with how I use my time, and one of the things I’m going to start doing is, writing down a project goal for the month. Each month, I always have tons of projects I’m trying to accomplish, and it’s overwhelming trying to juggle those and figure out how I’m gonna break down my time.
So, of all the big projects I have, I’m going to pick one per month for the rest of the year and focus on that project, using big blocks of time to move forward instead of trying to do it all at once.
That’s an example of something that I’m, that I’m going to refocus on as we move into the second half of 2025.
I just want to encourage you if you feel like 2025 has gotten away from you.
It’s easy to feel that way, and we all have areas where we could use our time better, but the year is only half over.
It’s like a glass half full. We still have six more months to make the most of the year to set our intentions to work towards a different outcome with more strategic planning.
I’d be curious to hear from you what you want to keep doing, stop doing, and start doing. I think that’s a great framework to use when evaluating your goals and implementing them more effectively.
Here’s to a productive and joyful second half of 2025. Thanks for reading!
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