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Leave Behind to Move Ahead: A Different Approach to New Year's Growth

Today, we leave 2024 behind us and bring our memories into 2025. Many people focus their new year on resolutions, asking themselves how they will be better at this or that in a new year. A friend of mine recently spoke at church, and regarding resolutions, he encouraged people to also think about what they will leave behind in 2024. This challenge got me thinking about those things that hold us back from our true potential and how we can leave those things behind as we begin a new year.

It's no secret that the focus of my business practices and my life is on wellness and optimizing potential. My professional wellness optimization is focused on SaaS product engineering, which often results in organizations multiplying their positive results. I do this through an initial analysis where I dig into the data, the people, and their product engineering goals and expectations, but this all centers around culture. The culture is the core of what I investigate and work to optimize.

Optimizing a product engineering culture involves identifying what is holding back performance and what is enhancing performance. Then, the culture is tuned by removing the things hindering performance while "doubling down" on the things enhancing performance. You can apply this same simple principle in all areas of life. 

Change doesn't happen overnight. Business leaders and experts widely acknowledge that "Change Management" presents the most significant challenge in business, and this principle applies equally to personal transformation. We all know that setting lofty, unrealistic " New Year's Resolutions "often fails. This year, I encourage you to do things a little differently. Do you want to multiply your positive results for 2025? Just as my friend reminded me through his encouragement to the church, "What are you going to leave behind with 2024?" What has been holding you back? What performance-enhancing actions are you going to double down on in 2025?

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