How to Make 2024 the Best Year: 6 Questions to Ask Yourself
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Do you want to make 2024 your best year yet?
There are only 6 questions to ask yourself for instant clarity and insight. Your answers will show you what the very next steps are in your life.
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In this episode, Mel will discuss:
- The one essential step for setting achievable #goals
- How to figure out where you are now and why that's a critical step
- The simple question to ask yourself to know what you really want
- The one step in goal-setting that most people miss
- How to use your camera roll to highlight your year
- The only reminder you need during this time of year
- Why you must highlight the sucky parts of your life, too
- What the launch of The Mel Robbins Podcast taught me
- How challenges shape our lives
- How to identify the amazing things you did in the past year
- What the stop-start-continue method is and why successful businesses use it
- The one best step you should take after listening to this episode
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In this episode:
00:00 Intro
06:03: The one essential step for setting achievable goals
07:08: How to figure out where you are now and why that's a critical step
09:24: The one step in goal-setting that most people miss
11:08: How to use your camera roll to highlight your year
15:39: The only reminder you need during this time of year
17:21: Why you must highlight the sucky parts of your life, too
19:54: What the launch of The Mel Robbins Podcast taught me
23:02: How challenges shape our lives
27:42: How to identify the amazing things you did in the past year
31:35: The simple question to ask yourself to know what you really want
35:14: The simple question to ask yourself to know what you really want
36:28: What will you start doing?
41:36: The one step you should take after listening to this episode
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Six Reflective Questions To Design Your Best, Most Intentional Year Yet
A.Mel Robbins shares a six‑question year‑end ritual she has practiced with her family for 20 years to help people reflect on the past year and intentionally design the next one.
B.The first three questions focus on understanding where you are now by identifying highlights, hardships, and what you learned about yourself across key life areas.
C.The final three questions borrow from a business framework—Stop, Start, Continue—to translate that self-knowledge into clear, relevant actions and habits for the coming year.
D.She emphasizes slowing down, reviewing photos and calendars, and even doing the exercise with others to surface forgotten wins, meaningful struggles, and intrinsically motivating goals.
🧠 IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideas
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Review your actual year, not just your memory of it.
Go through your camera roll and calendar month-by-month to identify highlights; you’ll uncover important experiences and wins you’ve already forgotten, which broadens your sense of progress and possibility.
2
Mine your hardest moments for goal-worthy lessons.
Systematically examine what was toughest in health, work, relationships, fun, and purpose; your biggest struggles point directly to the most relevant, intrinsically motivating goals for the next year.
3
Clarify what you learned about yourself this year.
Articulating new self-knowledge—about your resilience, limits, patterns, or needs—gives you a more accurate ‘starting location’ so your plans for next year actually fit who you are now.
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Decide what to stop doing before you add more.
Use the ‘Stop’ question to intentionally drop habits, commitments, or storylines (like constant complaining or overtraveling) that drain you or conflict with what you want in the next 12 months.
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Protect what’s working with a ‘Continue’ list.
Identify the practices, mindsets, and routines already serving you (like a boundary, ritual, or mindset such as the “let them” theory) so you deliberately carry them into the new year instead of accidentally dropping them.
💬 WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotes
I just need to take a minute and figure out where I am so I can figure out where I'm going.
— Mel Robbins
You need to remind yourself that your life is way bigger than how you feel in this moment.
— Mel Robbins
Knowing what's hard in your life allows you to do what researchers tell you that you need to do if you want to set goals that you care about.
— Mel Robbins
Sometimes it's more effective to stop doing something than it is to constantly focus on the new thing that you're gonna do.
— Mel Robbins
The best days, the best years of your life, they're ahead of you… The version of yourself that is waiting for you to arrive, it's waiting for you in this coming year.
— Mel Robbins
The six-question year-end reflection ritualUsing highlights and hardships to gain self-awarenessFive life categories for structured reflection (health, work, relationships, fun, purpose)The Stop–Start–Continue framework for personal goal-settingIntrinsic motivation and setting relevant, meaningful goalsThe importance of pausing before setting goals (the Google Maps metaphor)Doing the exercise with family, friends, or teams for deeper insight and connection
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