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Passion, Purpose and Gratitude — Revolution over Resolutions, 2025
Annually, for the past few years, I have publicly shared my various experiments, and resultant findings, in my approach to living a life in full as a LinkedIn Top Voice article. I’ve often written herein that having a proverbial New Year’s Resolution may not be the best, and certainly not the only, approach to living a full and satisfying life. I am not the first one to think so either — Jesse Itzler has his Life Resume approach, Tim Ferriss does an annual past-year review (PYR), Chris Guillebeau and others suggest Life Audits, Jodi Wellman’s book You Only Die Once offers a gold mine of practical tools to living a life of no regrets, wrapped in a wonderfully humorous writing style (be sure to listen to our conversation on my podcast (Episode #101) as well, she’s awesome). And, similar to prior years, this is my contribution to LinkedIn’s #bigideas and #bigideas2025.
The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short
Echoing Gretchen Rubin’s quote, Jodi also wants us to think about recording the moments of our life, and likewise, my dear friend, colleague, founder, and author, Octavia Goredema, has pointed out that the velocity in which the years pass is astonishing, and we thus need to “Pause, reflect, and recognize our growth” and do our own Annual Personal Performance Review. To quote:
