Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode 2,198. This is the singular episode that I repeat every single year. And I've already had a few of you reach out to me asking where this episode is and today is the day. It is titled, The 11 questions you need to ask yourself before 2025 is over.

As you know, I'm a big fan of asking questions. If you want better answers, ask better questions.

And these are the 11 questions that I ask, every pro athlete, every coach, every executive that I work

with as we end in iteration. It might be at the end of a season. It might be

the end of a year. It might be the end of whatever it may be. But these are the questions that I keep

coming back to and that in our conversations end up providing the most meat in the answers

and the most insight as we look back on what had happened.

And so without further ado, we're going to act as if you and I are working together.

And I'm going to ask you these questions.

Feel free to answer them out loud.

Press the pause as you're listening to this, answer them.

And or write your answers in your journal.

So you can go back and reflect on

them as we move into 2026. And so here are the 11 questions. Question number one, what happened this

year that you're grateful for? What happened this year that you're grateful for? It's always the first

question I ask, because before we start answering all the other ones,

we need to pause and reflect on the things that are good.

Our mind tends to naturally drift towards negative stuff.

I'm asking you, what are you grateful for that happened in 2025?

Number two, what hard things did you overcome this year? You achieved many things,

you accomplished many things, but I want you to take a look at the hard things you overcame.

There may have been some things in 2025 that you did not think you were going to survive,

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