My 2025 Reflection

As I’m preparing this we’re about to begin a New Year, 2026, and I wanted to capture some of the lessons I learned this year.

Let me start by adding some context. A the beginning of 2025 I found myself in a really unique stage of life - a narrow window between getting married and starting a family. This has given me a time-sensitive freedom, both financially and where I put my time, that I committed to taking full advantage of this year.

So the theme of 2025 was: “Play a bigger game”. It’s an intention I made good on and learned a lot along the way.

Here are some of those things:

Seeing that I won’t be as willing to travel for business when I have a young family, I wanted to spend more time out and about. I joined Masterminds, attended events all over the country, and discovered something critical - things happen so much faster when you’re in person. So I’ll be spending a lot of time traveling to be in places with high-powered people to establish and strengthen relationships.

Another way I chose to play a bigger game in my business is by investing in building out a team. Now I can both delegate lower value tasks and lean on other people’s strengths to improve things that I couldn’t. In particular I had a perfect hire for a Chief Of Staff, bringing my long-time friend and non-profit co-founder Maret into the fold and it has been unbelievably valuable.

Next, I pulled the trigger on things I’ve been putting off for ‘one day’. In particular I  began developing the Scorecard app that people have been begging me to build for years. I also painted a bigger vision for this end of year campaign and have been reaching out to dream collaborators for the last 5 months, people I was waiting for the right time to try to activate, realizing the right time is right now. Through both of these focuses I got real feedback that you should start before you’re ready, and it reshaped my perspective for what ‘trying hard’ looks like.

Here’s the tricky part about 2025… Objectively, I’m way behind the goals I set and where I thought I would be. But subjectively I strengthened so many areas of my life and build the foundation that can actually hold the levels of output and performance I envision for myself.

Heading into 2026 I’m going to hold to the same intention for the first time ever. I’m going to keep playing a bigger game, and now I know what it takes to deliver on that.

It took me a decade to get there, but I’ve built the systems and strategy I need to actually achieve big things! 

And if you want to shortcut the learning curve by a couple of years, I’m handing all of these learnings to you through the 21 Day Super Habits Challenge. If you’re like me and feel like you’ve been working so hard but aren’t as far along as you should be by now… Click here, sign up for the challenge, and let’s make up for lost time!