How’s It Been?

2025 is pretty much “history” now – how’s it been? Have you ever done a year-end assessment? Have you looked back to see who you’ve been? Or what you’ve done? Or how your plans have turned out?

Wanna take a look back as you plan for the New Year coming?

Here are some ideas to get you started.

1. Any changes for you as a person? As a compliance professional? As a friend? Family member? Co-worker?
2. Anything in 2025 you wish you could change? Consider how to learn from fears or failures. How to do better in a New Year ahead? How to plan to avoid old patterns and shape new ones?
3. So, what would you like to change and why? Can you think of ways to improve, meet new goals, get more hope, peace, joy?
4. What are you proud of over the old year? What do you feel good about? How can you do more in the New Year to feel good, pleased, successful?
5. Why do so many people plan changes for the New Year, then give up a few weeks later? How can you avoid that pattern?
6. Try listing your strengths. What do you do well as a compliance professional? What are your strengths and how can you use them well?
7. Consider a weakness or a failure as a compliance professional. How can you learn from it? How can you do better?
8. Plan ahead on how to be a better compliance professional. How can you turn bad experiences in the past into future successes?
9. Nobody’s perfect. Ever. Seriously. Even people who seem perfect – they’re not. Do your best to be your best – but recognize you won’t succeed always. We all fall short at times.
10. Count your blessings. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Give yourself encouragement. Be your own best cheerleader.
11. Count your victories. Enjoy successes. Bask in praise and appreciation. But don’t stop now – go on to even better successes.
12. Grow, grow, grow. As a person. As a worker. As a compliance professional.
13. Be open to new ideas, to new hopes and dreams, to new things to help you grow better and better as a compliance professional.
14. Learn from even the worst experiences. But do not wallow in regret. Don’t drown in it.
15. Enjoy the process of growing, learning, reaching for new goals, new hopes and dreams, new successes.
16. Be yourself. Enjoy being who you are, where you have been and where you hope to go.
17. Be kind. To co-workers. To bosses. To clients. To you, too. You matter – always and ever.
18. In your New Year, as a compliance professional, as a dedicated worker doing your best job, as a person who cares – may you thrive, grow, achieve and succeed all the New Year through.
    
    Happy New Year!

© 2024 K. Leet

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These are stories (usually fictional, but not always), based on insights and experiences from the world of compliance & ethics.