Episode 126

126. How These 10 Questions Set Up 2025 To Be Your Best Year Yet

What if pen and paper and just 30 minutes of reflection could transform 2025 into your Best Year Yet?

This simple process will guide you to harvest lessons from 2024, set clear intentions, and align your actions with your goals in the year ahead.

In this holiday episode, Dr. Dike Drummond introduces the Physician Leader's Best Year Yet Breakthrough Process for 2025, a powerful 10-question experience to help you reflect on the past year and plan for the one ahead.

This proven coaching tool has already helped thousands of physician leaders create clarity, gratitude, and actionable goals. With 2025 promising to be a chaotic year, this episode provides a grounding yet uplifting process to help you navigate the challenges and embrace the opportunities ahead with purpose and confidence.

~~ Reflect on your top achievements and learnings from 2024, so you can celebrate victories and turn challenges into growth opportunities.

~~ Set clear, actionable goals for 2025, including new skills to master, adventures to pursue, and relationships to nurture.

~~ Identify what you need to release and let go of, freeing yourself from what no longer serves your purpose.

Download the Best Year Yet 2025 Worksheet to begin this simple, reflective process and step into 2025 with clarity and intention to make it your Best Year Yet.

Here's the link: https://bit.ly/2025BYY


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What You’ll Discover Today

I’ll guide you through a 10-question coaching worksheet that I’ve shared annually for the past nine years. This worksheet is specifically designed to help you:

d the results you achieved in:

Celebrate your victories and learn from challenges.

Set clear intentions for what you want to accomplish in the year ahead.

2025 is shaping up to be a chaotic year. Knowing exactly who you are and what you want will act as your North Star, guiding you and your family through whatever challenges arise.

Why Reflection Matters

Hello, I’m Dr. Dike Drummond, and I want to start with a quote:

“A life unexamined is not worth living.”

This sentiment speaks directly to the power of reflection and planning. Writing down your thoughts and intentions with pen on paper is a uniquely powerful act. Research shows that physically writing things down helps solidify your intentions and is the first step in creating your reality.

As a coach, I know that the quality of your life depends not on what you know, but on the quality of the questions you ask and the answers you seek.

Introducing the “:

For the past nine years, I’ve distributed this year-end breakthrough worksheet to help physicians like you set yourself up for success. This year’s version is called the 2025 Best Year Yet Breakthrough Process.

It’s simple:

10 high-quality coaching questions.

Print out the worksheet.

Write down your answers, date it, and sign it.

ps you capture the lessons of:

Key Focus Areas of the Worksheet

Here’s what the worksheet helps you reflect on:

Celebrate your victories from:

Biggest Lessons: Identify what you’ve learned over the past year.

Unfinished Business: Acknowledge incomplete projects or goals.

Goals for:

Key Relationships: Identify the people who will be crucial to your success.

New Skills: Highlight what you want to learn.

Fantastic Adventures: Plan something exciting for the year.

Problems to Solve: Identify challenges you need to address.

Things to Let Go: Release what no longer serves you.

How to Access the Worksheet

You can download the worksheet from the link in the show notes. Here’s the URL if you prefer to type it in:

bit.ly/:

Note: It’s case-sensitive. Enter it exactly as follows:

B-I-T dot L-Y slash:

(The “BYY” stands for “Best Year Yet.”)

Once you’ve downloaded it, grab your favorite pen—mine is a Bic Crystal Blue—pour yourself a cup of your favorite beverage, and set aside some quiet time to complete the worksheet.

Proven Results

Over the years, more than 3,500 physicians have used this worksheet, with rave reviews. On the download page, I’ve also included three tips to maximize the worksheet’s effectiveness. Be sure to watch the short video that explains how to get the most out of this process.

Final Thoughts

et yourself up for success in:

Holidays! Here’s to making:

Until the next podcast, keep breathing and have a great rest of your day.

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Dike Drummond

Dike Drummond MD is a family doctor, ICF certified executive coach, trainer and consultant specializing in preventing physician burnout and physician leadership power skills. He is CEO and founder of TheHappyMD.com and has trained over 40,000 Physicians to recognize and prevent burnout in live trainings. He specializes in coaching for physician leaders to
- exercise influence in the c-suite
- earn the respect of your colleagues
- and incorporate Wellness and Balance on three levels: for yourself (and your family) your teams and your entire organization.
He is also a coach and advisor to Healthcare Startups whose product/service must be prescribed or delivered by physicians.