Learning from 2025 settings systems for 2026 success

It is one thing to set goals, and it's another thing for you to create systems by which those goals will be achieved.

Just like someone writing down a vision and then writing a mission statement as well, the mission statement will tell you how the vision would be achieved and what plans and actions would be taken to actualize that vision.

The year 2025 was 1 year in which I said I was going to read more books, and at the beginning of the year also I had in mind to learn a digital skill, and I had options between digital marketing, data analysis, and graphics.

One of the things I did so wrong, ladies here, was not writing down how I attended to achieve the goals that I had, and one of the books I read later in the year was "Eat That Frog!" by Brian Tracy. The book talks about setting goals and allocating time for activities that draw you closer to your goals.

So going into the year 2025, I had in mind a list of things I wanted to do, but they weren't clearly written on paper, and I never put a system in place by which I was going to achieve those things.

The implication of doing that was the fact that I forgot most of the things when I started dealing with some issues.

Secondly, because there was no written routine to follow, I didn't discipline myself to follow through because there was nothing to follow in the first place.

And moving into 2026, I know better that whatever goals I intend to achieve, I know how to write them down clearly because even scripture says, "Write the vision; make it plain; set it upon the tables so that they who read it may run and not faint." So I'll write my goals and set a system in place that enables me to follow through in order for those goals to be achieved.

Well, you know what to say. Short pain is better than a long memory, and one of the greatest lessons I learned this year from attending a leadership boot camp by Niyi Adesanya is that as a leader you have to put pen to paper because there are ideas you get in a flash, and when you don't write them down, you will believe they are yours. He called it leadership epiphany.

Though in the remaining days in the year I may not be able to achieve those things, I have already started planning and writing my goals for 2026 and setting systems in place to make sure the steps needed to reach the goal are taken because personal growth is a function of how badly you want it.

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The image is mine.