Bold in Goal Mastery: Part 1 Designing Your Life & Career for 2025

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Welcome to The Bold Brief—

You are a member of this community of top-notch expert nurses and healthcare professionals who aspire to be “bold” in career and life. We want to be bold in our life’s purpose, and bold in life and career choices to live with authenticity, balance, and meaningful challenges.

This is a part 3-series that will culminate into a masterclass that I will host January 15, 2025. You will learn how to reflect, envision, then act to create the goal master plan for 2025. Mark your calendar now!

So… bold in goal mastery.

Understanding the Power of Reflection

Reflection isn’t just about looking back—it’s about extracting the lessons of the past year, celebrating your wins - you earned, and completing the groundwork for meaningful progress toward meaningful goals in 2025. Don’t wait until January 2025…February 2025…June 2025…UG, or 2026 to realize that you are still struggling in your life and career. Start today! This 3-part series will teach you the power of reflection and guide you to prepare for the year ahead with clarity and purpose for true happiness.

The process of reflection is one foundational step to prepare yourself to move forward with purpose. Reflective practice is the well-established cornerstone of personal and professional growth.

Evidence Underpinning Reflection's Value

Research highlights the transformative impact of reflective practice as a proven tool for personal and professional growth. As an individual or group activity, reflection is invaluable tool within your lifelong learning toolbox.¹

• Improved Job Performance: Studies have show reflection leads to better performance and decision-making. Reflecting on past work improves long-term productivity by 23%.

• Enhanced Emotional Intelligence: Reflection helps deepen self-awareness and empathy—key traits for life and career success. People who regularly engage in reflective practices report higher satisfaction with career and life decisions.

• Increased Learning Retention: Reflecting on experiences reinforces lessons and makes knowledge stick. Reflection helps individuals frame challenges as opportunities for growth, reducing stress and enhancing resilience.

• Foundation for Goal Setting: Reflection is essential for identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.

These findings affirm what we already know intuitively—reflection leads to progress.

What This Means for Your Life and Career

In the fast-paced world of healthcare and nursing intertwined with your life and family, it’s easy to get stuck in the cycle of "go, go, go." Reflection allows you to pause and assess:

• Did you Celebrate Wins: What have you accomplished in 2024 or earlier that deserves recognition?

• Did you Acknowledge Challenges: Where did you face obstacles, and what did they teach you?

• Did you Identify Patterns: What habits, values, or systems contributed to your success—or held you back?

This reflective clarity is essential for designing actionable goals that align with your values, passions, and long-term career aspirations. Don’t wait to get started!

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5 Steps to Reflect Boldly on 2024

Step 1: Revisit Your 2024 Accomplishments

List your major wins—big or small. Look for measurable outcomes, personal growth, and professional highlights. Create your list of accomplishments.

Step 2: Analyze Challenges

Identify the moments where you struggled. What were the root causes, and what lessons did you learn? Read more about how to develop this analysis in step 3.

Step 3: Celebrate Growth

Reflect on how you’ve evolved personally and professionally. Celebrate resilience, new skills, and milestones achieved.

In the Bold Nurse Academy, we use a journaling very successful strategy to document accomplishments, challenges, and areas for growth. Think about each (first accomplishments, then challenges, then areas for growth) using the current month. Then, work your way back, month-by-month. You need to develop a comprehensive list for each topic.

I was coached to do this journaling, reflection, and analysis as part of my own monthly journaling. Years later, I now have the most incredible and empowering list of challenges and accomplishment from my full lifetime - from winning awards in middle school, to athletic achievements, to personal tragedy - each fueling my reflections over time.

Step 4: Align Lessons with Values

How do these lessons align with my core values? How can they shape my goals for 2025? When your goals align with your core values and priorities, you experience clarity, confidence, and momentum. Explore how to uncover what truly matters to you and create goals that resonate deeply in the next edition of this series and in the Goal Mastery class January 15, 2025.

Try this! Take this FREE Online Personal Values Test. Integrate your findings into your goals and annual plans. Take the test then share your top 3 values in the comments section below.

Step 5: Prepare for Goal-Setting

Organize your reflections into themes that will guide your vision and goals for the coming year. Members of The Bold Nurse Academy use my program resources to help identify, categorize, and organize your thoughts so that you can be effective in your goal setting. Next edition of the Bold Brief will lead you though the step for Goal Setting in 2025.

But first, you must revisit your 2024 accomplishments, challenges, growth, and values. Before next week, complete the above 4 steps so that you are ready for next week!

Ready to take your goal mastery to the next level for 2025?

• Join us for a transformative 1-hour live masterclass on January 15, 2025! This masterclass will be interactive session that includes a workbook so that you leave the session with a 3 actionable life and career goals, a tailored 90-day action plan, empowering you to start 2025 with clarity and purpose.

• This live, interactive session is designed to take the insights and tools shared in this 3-part Bold in Goal Mastery Series and turn them into actionable results.

• Attendees will learn advanced goal-setting techniques, complete their personalized 90-Day Success Plan, and gain the confidence to execute their vision for 2025.

Mark your calendar today! Reserve your spot starting next week!! 

Why Reflective Practice Works

• Clarity: Reflection helps clear the mental clutter, making room for focused, intentional goal-setting.

• Alignment: Understanding your successes and challenges ensures your 2025 goals align with your core values. Take that free values quiz in step 4 today! Take the free values test then hare your top 3 values in the comments section.

• Empowerment: Celebrating your progress builds confidence and sets the stage for bold action.

Conclusion

This is first step in the Bold in Goal Mastery Series that focuses on understanding where you’ve been in preparation of where you are going. By reflecting on your 2024 journey, you’re preparing to design bold, actionable goals for 2025.

Stay tuned for next week’s edition: Bold in Goal Mastery Part 2 - Envision Ambitious Systems for Momentum & Success. We will begin to craft your vision to align with your values, passions, and aspirations.

As always, remember—your boldest life and career are within reach. Let’s build it together.

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Remember that this is a dedicated space for you, the nurses at the bedside and beyond, the committed healthcare professionals ready to explore transformative career paths beyond traditional roles. Every week, we'll dig into evidence-based strategies, insights, and stories designed to empower you to take bold steps toward a fulfilling career and life outside the hospital setting.

1  Facilitating reflection: A scoping review and synthesis of the factors enabling effective facilitation of reflective practice. Link