Goals, Growth, and Getting Things Done in 2025

In this episode of the Vernon Richards show, the hosts discuss their goals for the new year, reflecting on the past year and sharing strategies for achieving personal and professional aspirations. They emphasize the importance of journaling, creating structured routines, and building accountability through community support. The conversation also touches on the significance of intentional content consumption and the benefits of sharing progress publicly. Overall, the episode serves as a motivational guide for listeners looking to set and achieve their own goals in 2025.

Links to stuff we mentioned during the pod:

• 05:35 - The Yearly Review by Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
  • This is an updated version of the one Vernon discussed in the episode. Win!
• 07:52 - Some helpful journalling prompts from Dickie
• 08:18 - The workshop Vernon mentioned is called The Productivity Spark 2025
  • It was a free to attend online workshop BUT... It looks like the link is down 😞. Vernon suspects the free workshop will be run quarterly, so keep your eyes and ears open for the next one. In the meantime, here are some other helpful resources from Ali.
    • Ali's website
    • Ali's free stuff
    • Ali's book
    • Ali's YouTube channel
    • Ali's Productivity course/community
• 09:49 - The CountrPT app by Ash Coleman Hynie
• 12:08 - Ilari Henrik Aegerter
  • Ilari's LinkedIn
• 17:03 - Elizabeth Zagroba
  • Sign-up for the FroGS peer conference that Elizabeth organises (with help from her pals) because it's awesome!
  • Elizabeth's blog
  • Elizabeth's LinkedIn
• 26:00 - Ben Kelly
  • Ben's LinkedIn
• 28:48 - Toby Sinclair
  • Toby's website
  • Toby's LinkedIn
• 34:55 - Daniel Priestly
  • Daniel's YouTube
• 35:14 - John Cutler
  • John's Substack
  • John's LinkedIn
• 36:30 - Martin Hynie
  • Martin's LinkedIn
• 36:49 - Melissa Eaden
  • Mel's Substack
  • Melissa's LinkedIn
• 41:25 - The DOSE Effect
  • The book
  • A conversation on the topic between Ali Abdaal & TJ Power the book's author
• 58:05 - Some references for the internal board of directors and invisible council concept from Perplexity
• 01:00:46 - The System Seeing Challenge by Ruth Malan
  • Ruth's website
  • The guide book for A Month of System Seeing

00:00 - Intro: New Year, New Goals

01:09 - Welcome

01:33 - Today's theme: Achieving our goals

03:29 - How are we approaching goal setting and achieving goals?

05:35 - Vernon describes the Yearly Review process he used

07:52 - Journalling as a means to remember what happened throughout the year

09:33 - Where else would journalling be useful?

11:20 - Rich talks about notebooks and how he uses writing to achieve his goals and remember his wins

12:58 - Rich's goals for 2025

15:30 - Timeblocking FTW!

16:39 - Starting small

18:23 - Vernon's goals for 2025

19:26 - Richard's reading goals and his library

24:15 - How to stay accountable: Building in public & Accountability buddies

31:34 - How to stay accountable: Bullet journal

34:21 - Vern shares the concept of "Look at me" vs "Look at this" content

39:10 - Rich realises why he hasn't done as much signal boosting as he used to

41:25 - How to stay accountable: Managing dopamine

44:55 - Managing focus by removing distraction

47:49 - Intention and finding a balance between resting vs procrastination and striving vs obsession

54:10 - How to stack the odds of success i