2025 Year Review
2025 Year Review Session
Session Objectives
By the end of this session,should:
Cultivate thanksgiving and gratitude as a posture toward life.
Understand why reviewing the year is necessary for growth, wisdom, and direction.
Engage with practical prompts to reflect meaningfully on the year that has passed.
1. Thanksgiving & Gratitude
Foundational Reflection
Gratitude is rooted in hope — the belief that life, in one way or another, can favor us.
At the start of every year, we often write resolutions with expectation. For many of us, December 31st of the previous year held a picture of what we hoped the next year would become.
As the year closes, one of the healthiest attitudes we can adopt is thanksgiving.
How was your Thanksgiving week this year?
For me, thanksgiving took a deeper form — not only appreciating outcomes, but appreciating who I am becoming.
Purpose of This Section
This session is designed to help participants:
Develop a positive and grounded outlook on life
Recognize growth even when circumstances were imperfect
Learn to thank God not only for answers, but for formation
Before we go further here are reflection prompt
What did this year teach you about patience, timing, or trust?
What did not go as planned but still shaped you for good?
2. Why Should I Review My Year?
“Success leaves clues.” — Marcus Aurelius
Review is not nostalgia; it is pattern recognition. On the other end I believe it also feels nostalgic going what the year was like. However one of the key thing is trying to ident the patterns.
Scripture reminds us:
“There is nothing new under the sun.”
Life often moves in cycles, seasons, and repeated patterns. When we fail to review, we risk:
Repeating the same mistakes with greater confidence
Missing lessons already paid for with time, energy, and emotion
The hymn “Count your blessings, name them one by one” captures this principle well:
Naming clarifies
Counting restores perspective
Reflection renews faith
Why Review Matters
A year review helps you:
Identify what to replicate
Discern what to retire
Recognize God’s faithfulness across ordinary moments
Make wiser commitments going forward
3. Practical Prompts for Reviewing the Year
A. Decisions & Patterns
Which decisions worked well and should be replicated?
What blind spots became visible this year?
Which patterns need to be retired, not repeated?
What worked consistently?
What failed repeatedly?
B. Constraints & Reality
What constraints shaped your year?
(Time, finances, health, systems, people, opportunities)Which constraints were external, and which were internal?
How did you respond to limits?
C. Breakthroughs & Failures
What were your key breakthroughs this year?
What failures stand out, and what did they reveal?
Which failures refined your character, priorities, or humility?
D. Commitments & Spiritual Life
What commitments did you make this year?
Which commitments did you honor?
What prayers did you pray repeatedly?
Which prayers were answered, delayed, or reshaped?
4. Guided Reflection Questions (Adapted from Ali Abdaal)
📅 Key Events
What actually happened in 2025?
Review your calendar, photos, messages, or journal entries.
If memory is unclear, write whatever comes to mind — clarity follows action.
🏆 Milestones
What were the 1–3 most significant moments of the year?
These may be external achievements or internal shifts.
How did these milestones practically affect your life?
🙏 Gratitude
What are you most grateful for in 2025?
Focus on people, moments, and relationships.
Which ordinary moments turned out to be quietly meaningful?
💪 Challenges Overcome
What obstacles tested you the most?
How did you respond — with avoidance, resilience, prayer, or growth?
What did these challenges teach you about yourself?
🎓 Professional / Academic Growth
How did you grow in your work or studies?
What skills, insights, or realizations emerged?
If progress stalled, what might that be revealing about alignment?
🌿 Personal Growth
In what ways have your beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors changed?
Where did maturity quietly increase?
What version of you is now possible that wasn’t before?
❌ Unfulfilled Aspirations
Which goals were not achieved?
Were they unrealistic, misaligned, or poorly timed?
What truth did unmet goals reveal?
👥 Relationships
Which relationships deepened?
Which ones faded?
Were there new connections that shaped your year significantly?
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