Episode 25: How to Reflect on Your Year (Before You Set New Goals)
Dec 10, 2025
→ Download the Free Year-End Reflection Workbook
Most people skip straight to New Year’s goals, never realizing how much wisdom—and self-trust—they lose by not reflecting first. True reflection isn’t a productivity audit. It’s a practice of awareness, compassion, and meaning-making—a way to meet yourself where you are, before deciding where you’re going next.
In this first episode of a two-part end-of-year series, Alyssia Sheikh walks you through how to reflect on your year in a way that actually supports your nervous system, your truth, and your future goals. She shares her personal 5-list reflection method—New Things, Things You’re Proud Of, Challenges, Things to Improve, and What Matters Now—paired with vulnerable stories from her own year, including transition, depression, leadership growth, and rediscovering meaning.
You’ll learn how negativity bias distorts your memory of the year, how self-honesty differs from self-criticism, and why honoring who you became is essential before setting aligned goals for 2026.
✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:
• How to reflect on your year in a grounded, compassionate way
• Why negativity bias convinces you that you “didn’t do enough”
• The 5-list reflection method Alyssia uses personally
• How to see your growth more clearly—beyond achievements
• Why reflection must come before goal-setting
• How this sets up Part 2: aligned, sustainable aspirations for 2026
Download your free reflection workbook and revisit your year with presence, clarity, and truth.
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