🔵 Compass Guidebook: The Anti-resolution Revolution PART 2

Author

Joshua Hale
December 17, 2024

Estimated Read Time: 6min

Hey Goal-Crushers!

13 days till 2025, and we're not slowing down!

If you did yesterday's reflection (high five!), you're sitting on a gold mine of insights.

If you didn't... well, what are you waiting for?

Permission? HERE IT IS!

But today? Today we're turning those insights into your personal battle plan for 2025.

The Traditional Goal-Setting Process Is Dead

You know the drill:

How's that working out for everyone? (Spoiler: It's not.)

Here's Your New Game Plan

We're doing something different. Something that actually works.

Because you've already done the hard part - you've looked at what ACTUALLY happened in 2024.

Now we're gonna use that intel like the strategic genius you are.

Step 1: The Reality Check (5 mins)

Pull out yesterday's reflection (you did it, right?). Look at your ratings in each area:

  • Any 4s or below? Those need attention ASAP

  • 5-7? Room for improvement

  • 8+? How do we maintain that excellence?

Circle your three lowest scores. These aren't just numbers - they're opportunities waiting to happen.

Step 2: The Dream Screen (7 mins)

Quick! Don't think too hard:

December 2025 - Future You is looking back at an EPIC year. What's different?

  • Where are you living?

  • What's your daily routine?

  • Who are you spending time with?

  • What are you NOT doing anymore?

  • What's making you smile?

Write it all down. No filtering. No "but how?" Just pure, unfiltered dreaming.

Step 3: The Reality Bridge (8 mins)

Now for the juicy part. We're building a bridge between Now You and Future You.

For each of your circled areas from Step 1, ask:

  • What's ONE thing that would make the biggest difference?

  • What's the smallest first step you could take?

  • What's been stopping you? (Be honest, we're all friends here)

Need help? Drop this in your AI buddy free at chat.com: 

You're my strategic goal-setting partner. I'm planning 2025 and need help turning dreams into action steps.

My current situation:
[Share your 3 focus areas and their current scores]

My dream scenario:
[Paste your December 2025 vision]

Your task:
1. Help me identify the smallest possible first step for each area
2. Suggest potential obstacles and solutions
3. Create weekly milestone markers for the first month

Rules:
- Keep it practical and doable
- No generic advice
- Focus on specific, measurable actions

The Secret Sauce 🌶️

Here's what most people don't get about goal-setting:

It's not about the goal. It's about the system.

Want to read more? Cool goal. But "read more" isn't a system.

THIS is a system:

  • Audiobook during morning commute

  • Delete TikTok, add Kindle app to home screen

  • 10 pages before Netflix. Non-negotiable.

See the difference?

Your Action Steps (RIGHT NOW):

While everyone else is nursing their New Year's hangover and trying to figure out what they want from 2025, you'll be 13 days into your new systems.

That's not just a head start - that's a whole different game.

Tomorrow's Mission:

Get ready for "The Execution Plan: Making It Stick When Motivation Quits" - because motivation is cute and all, but we're building something bigger.

But first - 20 minutes. Three steps. No excuses.

Time to make Future You proud.

Let's get it,

-Joshua Hale

P.S. Tomorrow we're talking about what happens when motivation goes on vacation (because it will). You won't want to miss this one.

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