Tag: 2025

Why?

About the age of 4, children start asking one of the toughest questions to answer: Why? Anyone around small children knows they ask it over and over. And every time we answer, they again respond with, “Why?”

As parents, a quick and easy answer is, “Because I said so.” However, this does not usually satisfy enquiring minds.

As leaders, there are two questions we must answer before making decisions.

Why make this decision?

Why now?

2025 is wide open before us. We need to give thought to “Why” as we make each decision.

Planning for 2025

Everyone knows the value of good planning. Leaders especially appreciate the need to make the proper plans to reach established goals.

Tonight we say goodbye to a year through which we will never walk again. We cannot relive it. We cannot change it. All we can do is examine it and make plans to do better in the future.

Plans are not New Year’s resolutions.

Plans are not goals.

Plans involve the activities necessary to keep our resolutions and reach our goals.

The old adage says, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.”

We all need short and long-term goals. How we plan to reach our goals makes a difference.