And With That The 2025 Season Comes To An End✨

Let’s Keep A Gratitude Posture

Today is December 31st. If you are reading this, you ought to be grateful for making it this far! As we wave goodbye to 2025, let’s enter the new year with a grateful heart. Remember to let your personal growth journey be led by the Spirit. Personal Growth Strategies would like to wish you a prosperous New Year full of growth.

We had some good personal growth nuggets on this blog this year. Here are some of the highlights for 2025.

1.The Missing Link For Your Personal Growth Journey.

In my previous posts, I used to be conflicted about bringing God into the blogs I published. The truth is I was afraid, afraid that not all my readers believe, and yet I still wanted everyone, including me, to learn from these nuggets I share. Yes, if you haven’t guessed it by now, this is the different perspective of personal growth we are bringing to the table! During the season I was not active on this blog, I boldly learnt that I cannot separate God from my personal growth journey, and neither can you.

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2. Let Love Lead – Living through the eyes of compassion

While each individual has an inherent desire for human connection and belonging, being around other human beings is not always easy. First of all, we are all different, and instead of finding beauty in our differences, it tends to cause friction in the way we interact with other people. You find yourself meeting someone for the very first time, and instantly you don’t like them because of the way they presented themselves or something they have done, which is normal to us. As an individual yearning to live as the best version of themselves, this is not the best way to show up. This is not the way God intended us to live. He said we should love our neighbors. He was the greatest example of this when he extended grace to us. He didn’t do this because we were good to him; on the contrary, we were far from it, but he still did because God is love, and he looks at us through the eyes of compassion and mercy, and that is how you and I are meant to live.

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3. The Best Decision-Making Advice I have Received.

Your stance/position/character will be the root of the decisions you make. If you are in a state of fear, your decisions will stem from fear; the opposite is true: a state of love means your decisions stem from love. Let’s not fall into the trap of making decisions to control the outcome; instead, rest, trust, and know God is guiding your growth journey.

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4.  Do Your Best Right Now 

In the previous blog post, we discussed how we reserve joy for when we get to where we want to be, while living a somber life in the moment. This theory not only applies to living a life full of joy, but most people also apply it to their efforts as well. How many things have you known you should/ can do better, but told yourself you will do better when you have reached a certain ‘goal’? You find yourself doing a half-done job because you hate your job. Let me burst the bubble for you: because you are forming a habit, when you get the job that you want, you will still do a sloppy job. Sure, the first couple of weeks, because of the dopamine and excitement, you might be going an extra mile, but rest assured, you will slip into your old habits sooner or later.

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5. The Fastest Way To Kill Your Progress.

Life is a unique kind of race. I can’t think of any race on planet Earth that depicts what life’s race is like. A typical race will have at least two participants competing against each other to determine the winner. With life, however, we have billions of participants each in their own race, and somehow, instead of competing with other participants, sometimes the life race’s rules require us to help other participants win their race. Human beings are designed for interdependence and yet find themselves in independent races. Personal development is one of the tools that helps one grow and maneuver their life’s race with the tools it provides. Just like any race, when in the arena, it is challenging and there are obstacle courses along the way, some a part of the race and the others, self-inflicted.

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6.  Set The Tone: Create An Environment For You To Flourish.

Think of your goals and personal growth journey as plants today. Intentionally set the tone to ensure a good harvest. Create an environment free from distractions and don’t neglect seeking wisdom to ensure you are setting the right tone for a bountiful harvest.

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7. Set A Standard of Excellence

Showing up with excellence even in the most mundane tasks helps build confidence. When you can keep quality standards for yourself, it builds a muscle within you, offers an intrinsic satisfaction that translates to confidence.

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8. Pruning In Preparation For The Ultimate Bloom.

According to reliabletreecare.com,  tree pruning is the selective removal of branches, buds, or roots to improve a tree’s health, structure, and safety. I like how the definition emphasizes selectiveness. When pruning, the arborist needs to be intentional about the branch or bud they cut off. The same applies to pruning for our personal growth; we need to be intentional about the things we are cutting off in our lives to make room for growth.

After researching how arborists prune trees, I found some interesting insights that also apply to how we can approach “pruning” in our own lives.

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9. A Guide To 2025 Year-End Reflection.

2025 had the same month and days for each of us, but we all experienced it differently. However your journey has been, congratulations on making it this far. I’m grateful for the grace of God that has carried you through. All the silent battles you faced when no one was watching, the big breaks and the small joys of life you experience – congratulations for still showing up, however that may have looked for you!

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10.  A Gentle Guide to Designing Your 2026

Before a vision manifests, it is created twice, first in the mind ( then you pen it down) and in real life. When a house is built, it is first completed on paper by drawing the plan/structure of the house that the builders will follow as they bring the plan to life. Effective planning and goal setting will help you with your first creation, a blueprint of how you want your life to turn out. You can plan in different stages, lifetime, 10 years, 5 years, 3 years, 1 year, one week, and one day. Your daily, weekly, and yearly plans should ultimately contribute to your lifetime plan. As we focus on the upcoming year 2026, we are going to focus on the annual plan. What is your desired destination for 2026, and will your destination help you take a connection flight to your lifetime plan?

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To more growth in 2026.

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