The last couple months have been about regrouping, resetting, and replanning our ambitious (sometimes too ambitious) goals for the last quarter of the year into some thing more realistic to the time and capacity we actually have.

And now we’re in December, where that time and capacity amounts to, for most of us, about two workweeks before the year-end holiday festivities claim what’s left.

Plus there’s the year-end push for many companies, trying to hit revenue numbers in the calendar (and fiscal) year, which usually means other projects you had on deck get dropped or delayed to focus on the bottom line.

So rather than trying to “finish everything,” let’s do our best to finish well. Which means things like these (which we’ll be talking about at our next Leadership Strategy Session — call details below):

Ending the year without overstretching

Creating rituals of completion and learning

Setting conditions now that make January less chaotic

Key among those is setting aside time now (yes, even in the shortened, hyper-busy of December) to review and reflect, as the first step to planning a smarter, stronger 2026.

Which is why Charlie and Maghan will be facilitating an Annual Reflection Workshop on December 17 (call details below), to help you with this important step toward finishing 2025 well and starting 2026 stronger.

~Steve

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