Thank you for joining us for episode 500 of Live Happy Now.

As we wrap up 2024 and head into the new year, many of us are thinking about what we'd

like to accomplish in 2025.

But it's important to pause for a moment and look at what we've done over the past 12

months.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I am joined by Live Happy CEO and co-founder Deborah

Heise, who's here to talk with me about the power of reflection. As you're about to hear,

taking time to celebrate what you've done and review what you'd like to do better can have a

profound impact on the way you approach

the new year. Let's have a listen.

Well, Deb, welcome back to Live Happy Now.

I'm always excited to do a Live Happy Now episode with you, Paula. It's one of my favorite things

we do. We're at the end of the year, which this year just seemed to fly by. And so it was a really good time as everyone's talking about, oh, what I'm going to do for the new year, how I'm going to go into 2025. It was a really good time to talk about the topic of reflection. And I know on our sister podcast, which you're part of, Built to Win, they did an episode about the importance of

reflection and really from a business development standpoint. And from the standpoint of what it

does for us personally, I just, I really wanted to talk about the importance to before

we plan for the new year to take that pause and look at what we've accomplished in the past year.

Can you kind of talk about how that kind of reflection can inform where we want to go?

Yeah, I think the biggest thing about reflection is it really does, for me, and you know I struggle

with this all the time, it creates a sense of presence, right? We all kind of move through life and we're looking at what do we want out of life. And we have these kind of big, grandiose ideas in the back of our heads of, you know, where we think we're going and what we think we're going to end up. And, you know, you ask any college student that selected their degree, what they're going to

look like in 10 years, what they're going to be doing, they're going to tell you and they're

going to be wrong.

100% wrong.

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