Tips for Making 2025 Your Best Year Yet!
BABETTE BENSOUSSAN, MBA
The Decision-Making Maverick? Life, Leadership & Business Coach, Competition and Strategy Specialist, Author - Improving your life, decision-making and the competitiveness of your business.
We all know that throughout 2025, you’ll face countless decisions—some routine, others transformative. When reflecting on these choices, ask yourself: Was I accountable, or was I responsible??Shane Parrish offers a compelling distinction:
“The quality of a decision increases directly proportional to the degree to which the person is responsible.
If I tell you to do something, you're accountable but not responsible. Following a process makes you accountable, not responsible. Using judgment to opt out of the process makes you responsible.
Completing assigned homework makes you accountable. Seeking out additional resources to deepen your understanding makes you responsible. Remembering your partner's birthday makes you accountable. Consistently finding ways to make them feel appreciated makes you responsible.?
Taking out the trash when told makes you accountable. Noticing it needs to be done and doing it makes you responsible.
Focusing on accountability doesn’t improve decision quality. Embracing responsibility does.”
In other words, responsibility requires ownership, initiative, and the willingness to act beyond expectations. It’s about going deeper, thinking critically, and acting proactively.
So here are some tips for taking responsibility for making 2025 your best year yet.
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1. Create Structure for Self-Reflection Incorporate regular self-check-ins, journaling, or coaching sessions to ensure you’re staying aligned with your goals and values.
2. Embrace Responsibility, Not Just Accountability Shift from simply completing tasks to taking full ownership of your decisions and their outcomes. Ask yourself, "Am I doing this because I was told to, or because I recognize it as the right thing to do?"
3. Prioritize Relationships and Engagement Make time to nurture meaningful connections, both personally and professionally. Fully engage in your interactions to build trust and strengthen bonds.
4. Focus on Progress Over Perfection It’s not about getting everything right—it’s about doing your best and learning along the way. Small, intentional steps create momentum and lasting change.
5. ?Seek Support Whether through a coach, mentor, or accountability partner, having someone to guide and challenge you can make a world of difference.
Don't hesitate to reach out if you would like some support.
Founder & MD The Circular Water Company | Turning Bottled Water into Roads | Circular Solutions for Water & Plastic
1 个月Babette .. you truly practise what you preach.I have learnt so much from you over our years of friendship. I have printed this list out and put in my bullet journal to remind myself of how I should be thinking as we wend our way through 2025
Leadership Coach ● Creating lasting change for leaders and executives in corporates ● Psychotherapist ● Director and Principal of Executive Mandala
1 个月I love the Rumi piece at the end BB. Great thoughts to start the year. Thank you. BABA ??
Founder, Academy of Competitive Intelligence
1 个月"Taking out the trash when told makes you accountable. Noticing it needs to be done and doing it makes you responsible." By that measure, alone, I am the most responsible person on the planet.
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1 个月This speaks so well BABETTE to the conundrum of people taking courses and coaching and the ongoing follow-through they have. Very insightful definitions of the difference between Accountable & Responsible. No. 4 is so important yet rarely manifested - I will never forget Ita Buttrose once saying "done is better than perfect'. Each small action builds confidence and its what makes your definition of responsibility so valuable.
Clinical Microbiologist, Marathoner, IVD Product Management, Coach and Mentor, promoting a diverse and inclusive work environment.
1 个月Thank you! I love this post and the quote by Rumi —so inspiring! I'm printing it to keep in my office. Thank you for making my Monday a truly thought-provoking and meaningful one