Self Reflection: Getting Clear on Your Roadmap for 2025
Step-by-Step Action Plan for Letting Go and Embracing Growth in 2025
As we step into 2025, I wanted to offer you a clear action plan for releasing what no longer serves you, while also creating space to reflect on what’s helping you grow. This is your chance to let go of what doesn’t serve you and make room for what truly nurtures your well-being.
In this post, we’ll explore the 6 Core Principles of Peaceful Accountability, which I share in my Signature Workshop and my 12-Week Program, Journey to Self. These principles are based on self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-validation, and can be applied to any area of your life to help you feel more peaceful and connected to your inner guidance.
Core Principle #1: Worthiness
When you think of 2024, are there any big “mess ups” or “mistakes” that come to your mind? Are you carrying any of those forward with you? Can you take a moment to future-project your awareness into all of 2025, with that glow of self-blame cast upon the whole year? While the feeling of defeat may be familiar, is it really one that you want to keep carrying around? How can you start to forgive yourself for past situations today? I invite you to envision your 2025 again, future-projecting yourself across the entire year, but with a sense of purpose and confidence instead. How does that feel different? What kind of self-acceptance and grace would be required to continue feeling that way moving forward?
When you think of 2024, does your sense of success or accomplishment stem from external achievements, relationships, or appearance? These can be awesome goals to have, and definitely something to be grateful for. But keep in mind — you are just as worthy, even without these things. Take a moment to reflect with gratitude, and remind yourself that you more than deserve all of those joys in life. And then some! Moving into 2025, are there any of those things you’d like to keep, or even build upon? Do any of them feel heavy or burdensome? You can decide which ones you want to take with you moving forward.
Are you surrounded by people who affirm your worth?
Can you acknowledge your successes and strengths?
What is one limiting belief about your worthiness that you might like to release?
Core Principle #2: Curiosity
When you think of 2024, can you see where the universe was offering you lessons rather than roadblocks? Can you pinpoint any areas where you were given an opportunity to learn more about yourself, the ones you love, or the areas where you find meaning in life?
When you think of 2024, are there any curious situations that might be a blessing in disguise, or an open doorway inviting you to dream bigger for 2025?
If you had no limitations, what would you choose to spend the next year building and growing in your life?
Are you curious about who you’re becoming, or have you felt stuck in who you’ve always been?
Core Principle #3: Objectivity
When you think of 2024, are you able to jot down key points or meaningful events and feel closure? If not, these might be some sticking points where your body is guiding you to do some further processing. Rather than feel stuck and carry that sticky energy forward, how can you allow space into your body that can hold the messages and the love gained in these situations? You can carry that forward as wisdom and inner guidance, when you feel ready.
Are there any areas in your life that still feel like they’re nagging at you? Those are likely areas that are asking for more objectivity — what if you view these from a different lens, as if a beloved friend has told you about this happening in their life? What if it were being told by a stranger? How might your reactions differ? Would you have any words of advice or comfort for them?
As you look forward into 2025, what are 3 words that you would like to consistently embody? You can come back to these and remember that objectivity can help keep you centered on these intentions, because the open space of objectivity allows you to mindfully choose which emotions you put into them.
How do you feel about your ability to separate facts from feelings? How can you lean into this practice moving into 2025?
Core Principle #4: Honesty
Now that you are able to identify the skill of objectivity and tap into how it feels, take a look at your ability to be honest with yourself: As you look back on 2024, are there any parts of your life where perhaps you were too hard or too easy on yourself, in terms of taking accountability for your own wellbeing? Are there any areas where you might be looking for answers outside of yourself, simply because you don’t feel you have the inner resources to handle it?
If those areas of your life were the #1 top priority for you, how might you be handling them differently?
Have you taken a moment to identify your core values, so you know what is actually most important to you in life? This can be especially helpful when a lot of things feel off-balance and you’re not sure why. This is often a sign that your decisions are out of alignment with what you truly value.
Can you see where your true intentions have shown themselves in your actions, looking back on 2024? What would you like to change about that in 2025? What about that feels difficult or easy?
Core Principle #5: Authenticity
Now that you’ve been honest with yourself and gotten in touch with your goals and values, you can take a look at your daily decisions: Looking back at 2024, can you jot down any areas where you feel like you weren’t able to show up as your fully authentic self? Why or why not?
Of those reasons, which ones are you able to look at objectively and honestly, and learn a lesson from? Are any of them meant to be blessings or messages, or are they all just roadblocks?
Of those inauthentic areas, which ones can you start to incorporate more authenticity in your thoughts, words, and actions, as we move forward into 2025? Does your authentic self resent them as roadblocks, or choose to view them as lessons? Does your authentic self feel the need to speak negatively about them, or is your authentic nature actually to use that situation for learning and growth?
Do your actions and words encourage others to be their authentic selves? Are there any parts of you that you’ve been afraid to show others? Do you think others might feel the same?
Core Principle #6: Intention
Take a look at the big decisions you made in 2024. Ask yourself, was this decision made from fear, from obligation, or from true purpose? The answer is okay either way — we do what we can each moment, until we learn more, and then we go from there.
Knowing what you now know about the many layers of true accountability, what affirmations can you take with you into 2025, to remind yourself that you are worthy, to give yourself space for curiosity and objectivity, and to set the groundwork to allow for honesty, authenticity, and true intentional actions?
When is the last time you went into a situation with true intention, with none of your motivation being fear, obligation, or confusion? What was the outcome? What kept you motivated? What did you learn about yourself from that experience?
Do you have a game plan for adjusting your intentions, as you learn more about yourself and what you truly enjoy in life? How comfortable are you with adapting to new information and getting into a new flow?
Remember — life is a journey, not a race.
Many times, after experiencing trauma, we may feel a sense of pressure but aren’t sure of the source. If you ever start to feel this, just remind yourself to start back at #1: your worthiness. You have just as much of a right to learn these things and figure out what feels right to you, as anyone else. There is no right or wrong way to do any of these things. And your emotions will surely let you know when something doesn’t feel right for you. Your own self is the person who you’re going to spend the most time with in this life — you might as well get to know that self and come to a place of peace with how you process things, right? Hopefully, these 6 principles can help.
If you feel you’d like feedback on the process or want to dive deeper, you can book a free Clarity Call with me and I’ll help you further identify your goals and some action steps you can take.
Our next 12-week Journey to Self is right around the corner.. we’ll be starting in a couple of weeks! There, we’ll integrate these principles in real time, as we navigate Self-Awareness, Self-Compassion, and Self-Validation after past trauma. I’d love for you to join us.
Sending you love as you embark on this exciting new chapter in 2025!
until next time,
-Ashana.
