513. The Mid-Year RESET: How to Course-Correct Your 2025 Goals Before It's Too Late

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Can you believe we’re already halfway through 2025? If you’re like me, you’ve probably had your head down, working hard, only to look up and wonder where the year went. It’s normal to drift away from your original goals or even forget them entirely by this point in the year. Life gets complex, priorities shift, and sometimes what mattered in January doesn’t feel as urgent now. The good news? It’s never too late to reset, and that’s exactly what this episode is about. I walk you through the RESET process—a simple, five-step system we’ve been using for years to help people get back on track with what matters most. We start by reflecting on the goals you set at the beginning of the year and reconnecting with the ones that truly matter. Next, we evaluate your current progress and identify the gaps. From there, it’s all about simplifying your focus, establishing specific activities that move the needle, and time blocking those actions so your priorities are reflected on your calendar. Along the way, I share how constraints and limitations can actually spark your best ideas and fuel real progress. By taking just an hour to reset your focus now, you give yourself a much better chance to finish the year strong—and maybe even surpass what you thought was possible. The RESET process is here to help you ditch the guilt, reconnect with your core values, and recommit to what matters most for the rest of 2025. Challenge of the Week: Pull out your calendar and commit to a RESET. Block 30-60 minutes to work through the five steps—reflect, evaluate, simplify, establish, and time block. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: How goal drift and unconscious quitting happen Why constraints can actually drive innovation and progress The five-step RESET framework to course-correct at mid-year Links & Tools from This Episode: Listen to Episode 490. Beyond Goal Setting: The Relationship That Makes Success Inevitable Listen to Episode 483. Are You Using This Simple Tool to Make Better Decisions? Sign up for The Twentypercenter newsletter Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email [email protected] or send us an audio note at Speakpipe.com/the1thing. Produced by NOVA

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the second half of 2025. Can you believe it's already been half a year?
0:06.6	I know like a lot of you, I just get my head down and then I look up and I can't believe how much of the year has flown by.
0:14.0	It's rarely that time moves slowly for me these days. It feels like it's always moving fast.
0:18.9	This episode is all about asking this question for you.
0:22.9	Where are you in relation to your goals? You started out the year with a big vision for
0:28.3	2025 and then you went out, you started chasing that vision. You got busy. Do you know where
0:35.0	you are today in relationship to your goals? A lot of you are probably
0:40.4	a little off track. I know I am. Some of you may have kind of drifted completely off course.
0:47.3	I have in some areas. And the other reality is some of us, you get so busy. Our life happens.
0:53.4	That's just something unexpected,
0:55.2	unplanned for happens that you have to adjust. And you hit autopilot unlike most of your goals
1:01.4	months ago and you have no clue where you are today. It's just that Waymo car is driving you
1:07.6	somewhere and you have no idea where you are. So that's the reality.
1:11.8	By mid-year, most of the people we see in the One Thing organization are off track.
1:17.0	And I think that's pretty normal.
1:19.1	It's very rare for people to look up and they may be hitting a goal,
1:23.2	but a lot of their goals may have been neglected or forgotten by the middle of the year.
1:27.9	Because life is complex, business is complex. Things change. The things you thought were important
1:33.0	in January, that are no longer important, or the things that you believe were important then
1:38.7	are still important, but they've just gotten lost in the shuffle. And the reality is I talked
1:43.0	about this back in episode
1:44.4	490, the relationship with your goals. Like, there's two consequences, goal drift, where you veer
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