Your Best Year Yet — 2025

December 25, 2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

So, I am writing this as a Christmas present to you and myself!

Because 2025 is going to have opportunities for growth that we have not seen in years and if everything comes together, the next few years could result in more prosperity than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes.

The trick is to realize what is going on and then to have a plan and then execute that plan to take advantage of it.

So below came directly from none other than Dan Kennedy today in an email I got from him.

“Audit Your Year: Be brutally honest. What worked? What didn’t? The truth hurts, but it’s your best asset.

Identify a High-Leverage Action: Skip the fluff. Focus on one move that truly moves the needle.

Plan Your First 90 Days: Momentum isn’t an accident. Map out clear, actionable steps to start the year ahead of the competition.”

And I do not know about you, but this is some pretty darn good advice. The funny thing is part of my gift to myself was already doing this when I got up this morning during my Wim-Hoff walk. Google it if you have not heard of this.

But basically I just do a walk in the morning with shorts and a t-shirt in the morning no matter what the temperature is. The colder, the better. It was in the low-40’s this morning here in Nashvegas.

It really will wake you up and it clears your head.

For me, planning the work and working the plan has been the biggest factor in my successes over the years. While not earth-shattering advice, for me at least, it is easy to stray from the plan depending on what fires I have to put out.

Goals versus Anti-Goals

One thing that is going to be different in 2025 for me is to switch from Goals to Anti-Goals.

For instance, one of my Anti-Goals is to avoid clutter in my environment including mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

For a lot of entrepreneurs, we at least to a certain degree fit the bill of ADHD, so this can be a lot harder than it sounds. Musk has it, as well as pretty much the top 10 Entrepreneurs in history.

I actually think ADHD or Neuro-divergence is a super-power. And once you really understand what it is, it makes sense.

We have a lower baseline of dopamine, so we are constantly seeking it. This can be good or bad. If you are aware of this rather than doom-scrolling social media or getting a quick dopamine hit from finishing some inconsequential tasks, if you can put together a plan for finishing things that add value to your customers and yourself and only focus on those things, you can use the need for dopamine hits to accomplish more than people that are not Neuro-divergent. It allows us to be hyper-focused when we plan for it!

Think of it being the difference between the light from a flashlight or a laser beam that can cut through steel.

So back to the Anti-Goal of lack of clutter. It is easy to get so caught up in your thoughts or a project that you ignore your surroundings, and you end up with piles of dust bunnies of all types. They can be physical, mental, and in your systems within your life and business.

For instance… is your desk and office are clean and at least semi-tidy? How about your sales pages and processes? Do they have proper follow up and is there a checklist to make sure there aren’t any holes in them?

I used to dismiss this whole Anti-Clutter thing as BS. Not so anymore.

As far as mental, are you concentrating on things that move the needle or on fluff?

And this one for me at least is, do you have checklists for all of your processes to make sure you or your people that help you do not miss things?

Checklists often go against the urge to not feel boxed in and can actually help you escape the box. This is because little things that are not done can really screw up sales and success overall.

Just as in the Truism that you are really only 6 handshakes away from anyone in the world, and there is another one that says it is only 3, the same goes for Uber Success.

Be it 3 or 6, it is a very small number of actions that will drastically change your trajectory toward success in 2025.

Let’s switch gears here a bit.

Why 2025 Can Be Great

Let’s look at where we have been and are currently. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 4 years, it was not a great Economy but one of doom and gloom. Inflation has been out of control. The average house price went from about $200,000 to over $400,000. The payments went from $1,000 per month to over $2,400.

Food prices in many cases are up 50% to 100%. Gas and energy prices are through the roof, as well as regulations on businesses that purposely suppressed growth in the US while helping people and companies abroad.

I could go on, but you are smart, you have seen all of this and more with your own eyes. Yet what really went on behind the scenes when it comes out is going to blow people’s minds.

Here are some big changes that are going to make 2025 different.

1. Energy costs are going to go way down. This will lower the price of everything. Gas prices alone should be in the low $2 range. This will put more money into each household and family as the cost of food and all goods will be lower.

2. The pipelines and oil and gas production will no longer be stopped in their tracks here in the US. This will result in the creation of 100’s of thousands of good paying jobs.

3. Manufacturing companies will swarm back to the US after being chased out. More jobs here, less money being sent overseas. The US will be business friendly again instead of being anti-business.

4. Common sense crypto rules will allow the US to be the hub of worldwide crypto and blockchain tech. This means 100’s of billions will flow back to the US.

5. Ai integration will be encouraged and rewarded here in the US. The country that gets ahead will rule the world economies. If you have not integrated Ai into your business plans, do so now!

6. Government overspending and regulations will come to a screeching halt. This will pump back Billions into the economy.

7. Small businesses will be able to once again thrive and get access to capital that has been frozen and becomes available once again. Plus, their customers will have more money to spend.

8. The stock markets, crypto, and capital markets are going to explode. This will bring back more money to the US and people’s retirement accounts are going to be healthy again.

All of this will give those of us that have a plan and are ready for the wave of prosperity to make more money in the next 2 years than you have in the past 10.

Work on your Anti-Goals, get your checklists together and get your product and service plans tightened up and take advantage of the coming wealth boom.

Now get your plans together to create some generational wealth in 2025!

Cheers,

Andrew Anderson

TheLongerCrowbar.com

iQMarketers.com

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