We love the Christmas lights, the smell, the sound and the feelings. I trust the 2024 holiday is literally done and we all hope for a better 2025. But hope is not a strategy. I mean, more importantly, how are you planning for 2025? .
Here’s following through on my promise, that I will be sharing my confidential steps (steps I have successfully used over the years to generate amazing results. And I definitely will use it for 2025). It’s on:
How I Plan To Achieve My Own Theme for 2025.
First of all, I don’t do New Year Resolutions. I do themes; it refers to one or at most 2 central word(s) that guide my year and then with a mind map all around it. I apply the Be-Do-Have model to it (The Be-Do Have is called the Triad of Manifestation – Things to BE, what to DO, and what I should HAVE to be those things. Mixing the sequence up gives a different result. It is also metaphorical to the BSQ Pyramid Think Big (Be), 2. Act Small (Do), and then 3. Move Quick (list out the measurable Haves) layers. And please let it be guided by a theme, one central word for a year).
So, about the theme (2015 was Synergy (the most relationships/alliances was created that year, even our powerful community HBC- Hexavian Business Club was formed that year). By 2018, my theme was NEW CHAPTER (that year in 2018, I started three new companies that still stands till date. I proposed and got married that same year, I moved houses, had new inner circles of friends, signed a bi-weekly radio show agreement, became a columnist on Business Day; that was a redefining year. I guess the stakes are higher with the next; that 2019 saw the arrival of my first son. In 2020, that COVID year had us all uncertain and reflecting. Well, 2022 and 2023 was -GROWTH, and 2024 was about Rhythm (I found the most stable framework, the most steady team and a series of redefining ideas and models for my business. Next year 2025 is about Steady Leap- Let’s go further!
So here was how I mind-mapped my theme for 2025 for example
STEPS TO ACHIEVING MY THEME
- Read a book/audio/visuals on your chosen theme; for example, since mine is on Steady Leaps, I am reading a John Maxwell book on Growth, definitely to be completed before the year ends.
- Go on a 3-day fast to commit the theme; in my case’ Steady Leap’ into His hands.
- In that deep realm, ask for light, discipline, insights and the spirit of follow-through. Then, come back to the physical and begin to talk about it, first to yourself and others (to yourself, it dips it deeper into the realms of consciousness and unconsciousness, and to others, it puts you on the spot to deliver #accountability). Yes, if you can find an accountability partner, the better for you.
- Re-align the 2025 mind map to Steady Leaps. And then create touchpoints based on your own wheels of life (Say 1. Family: Things you want to be, broken down into sets of things to do and have. You can loop the same process for 2. Spirituality, 3. Health, 4. Business/Career, 5. Finance, 6. Social Relevance/Fun, 7.Relationship/marriage etc). These wheels of life, refer to things you should BE (Be better in, Be better with). And then create measurable to ‘DO’ and have per touch points/ Wheels of life.
The high point of these exercises is that you create things you’d do differently. And then create consistent reminders to yourself as many times as you can remember. I suggest at every quadrant of a daily clock (three hours intervals of a 12-hour clock. It actually does have a spiritual meaning too). To make it effective, try at those points to practice stillness and meditation (not just as a spiritual exercise but as a mental exercise). Each time the process is done, comes as a self reminder too. Ensure that you practice meditations, affirmations and pausing in between the day through stillness to allow your themes, growth mindmaps and the component task catch up with you. After a while, the loop becomes automatic and subconscious to you. That’s a great place to be; for 2025.
The secret sauce is in the process of writing down your themes, creating a wheel of focus and then detailing the measurable goals, reviewing them constantly, and making incremental progress on them. I suggest you recite them last thing at night and first thing in the morning as a ritual, habit or part of your prayers.
- Other side hacks may include having daily to-do lists as a support to them. Stay on a task or thought/thought process till you’re sure it is done. Consciously, do not allow your mind travel off by any distractions. An example is, if it’s not time for social media or calls, don’t go there and keep a mental timer: Stop-watch for each activity.
- Find a partner (an accountability partner) that shares similar theme.
- Find a quote that summarizes your theme and use it as a profile picture, wallpaper, hang it on the door, and mirror where the sticky notes are.
QUOTES ON GROWTH/STEADY LEAP:
- Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
- Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. Being busy and traffic are side effects of growth.
QUOTES ON CONSISTENCY:
- See what happens when you focus on what excites you.
- Sacrifice and discipline is the synonym for consistency. Following through even when you don’t feel like is how you break barriers of procrastination and in creating a brand for being consistent If I keep doing what is easy, my life may be hard. But if I do what is hard, my life will be easy. Focus creates blindness. I mean, it blinds you away from all other distractions.
- Structure and consistency are everything.
Writing and making mental notes in Mindmap format is key. Plan. And those plans must be intentionally followed through, intentionally from start to finish till tangible conclusions and product/success emerge.
You can create success or you create excuses, you can’t do both.
Start and walk 2025 with us.
Please note that this is only applicable to individual and not organizational planning. We have a different approach for corporate goal setting and strategy development.
I believe every serious-minded person or organization should right about now, have plans for a Corporate retreat towards a better 2025. Let us at Hexavia! know how we can help with that or you/your organization can join our 2025 corporate strategy session (details are attached with this note, feel free to chat us for more details). But in the meantime, let’s measure our individual and corporate performance for 2024 and the set 2025 targets, using vision boards and strategic mind maps together.
It’s a new year, beyond crossover service, superstitions and hope, practically speaking, it is a perfect time, to review performance, set goals and mindmap a better new year ahead. Who is handling your team’s retreat and 2025 corporate planning sessions?
Two options, you can either engage us for your retreat/2025 strategy sessions or join our open end ones with other team members for this December.
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3 comments
This is mind blowing.
I’m at the lowest web of my life now: can u pick me from the scratch and tutor,mentor and take me on!
I pledge to be completely a submissive student.
I have so much money to offer now!
so please don’t ask me for any financial input except you don’t want me to be part of this vision,movement and concept.
Thanks a million times.
I asked GOD for a birthday gift(my birthday is 31st December). I think stumbling into this write up is part of that prayer answered.
Thank you
Remain blessed.
David.
Eizu thanks for sharing this, I definitely will steal somethings from here.
Thanks boss. Reading it again gave me more insight on my goal for 2019. More power to your elbow sir. Ayodeji ( 07039211115)
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