25 for 25 Progress Update
Accountability check in for 2025 goals
👋🏻 Helen here, checking in on my goals for 2025 since we are halfway through the year. Four years ago, I began following Gretchen Rubin’s practice of setting goals for the year. While 25 things to get done is a long list, I organize it by theme and have a mix of aspirational, practical and recurring activities that I want to focus my time on. I also give myself permission to add and remove items as life changes or I learn more about how much I like the goal I have set.
This is the first year when I am doing this during my “power pause” as I started my own business as a coach and stepped away from being a Product leader. So my progress came easier and faster on many of these then in years past.
So below is where I am!
Professional development (1-5)
🧑💼Become an executive and leadership coach - 🛠️ (On track) I finish my certification next month with Hudson Institute of Coaching and I plan to become an accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation by the end of the year.
Build my business website - ✅ (Check it out!)
🗄️Figure out my business-related “office” - ✅ So far, I am using Google Drive, Zoom, and FreshBooks. I plan to sign up for DocuSign soon as well, and I am exploring a light CRM system.
👩🏼🏫 Go to at least one professional conference - ✅
❓Bonus - I don’t know what this year will bring professionally, so leaving a blank space for growth. - (NEW) Experiment with 2-3 roundtables and group coaching sessions - 🛠️ (In progress)
Community (6-9)
🎗️Join a non-profit board - ✅ - I am going to be Co-President of Peter Kirk Elementary’s PTSA next year, and I am honored to lead this organization of amazing parents, student,s and teachers
🍞 Bake bread with Community Loaves once a month - 🛑 I have chosen to pause my efforts here since I’ve taken on other community involvement roles.
UW - Get involved with UW Foster Business School - ✅ - I am working as an Adjunct Career Coach for a few hours to help recent MBAs launch into their careers as well as have gotten more involved as an Alumni this year through various ad hoc events and advising opportunities.
🧒🏼 Host a Girl Scouts troop at our cabin - ✅
Personal (10-14)
🐶 Get a puppy - ✅ We welcomed Rainier Apollo Harmetz into our home in January. He is an Australian Labradoodle and completes our pack.
🪞 Buy a full-size stand-alone mirror - ⏳ (Not started)
📚 Read 25 minutes a day - 🛠️ (On track)
🧴Get a monthly facial - 🛠️ (On track)
🪮 Get a regular haircut - 🛠️ (On track)
Travel (15-20)
👧🏻 Go on a trip with my sister - ✅ We plan to do a Yoga retreat in Arizona this fall.
👯♂️ Plan a trip with my best friend - ✅ We spent an awesome week in NYC, gallivanting around.
🇳🇿 🇫🇯Make a memory book after our trip to Fiji and New Zealand - ✅
🎨 Visit a new museum - ✅ I finally visited the Museum of Modern Art in NYC
🎭 See 2-3 new theater productions this year - ✅ I saw Studio East productions of Big Fish and Seussical Kids this year, as well as &Juliet, Boop, and Gypsy (with Audra McDonald!) on Broadway!
🌎 Visit a new country - ✅ As a family, we visited Nevis and St. Kitts this year 🇰🇳
Health Habits(21-25)
🏋 Lift weights 2 times a week - 🛠️ (On track) I have found great success working out with a friend in a 2:1 personal training session 2x a week
🎾Play tennis 2 times a week - 🛠️ (On track)
🩺 Health cleanse twice throughout 2025 - 🛠️ (On track)
🛜 Less Social Media - ⏳ (Not started) - My plan was to have two 30-day periods of limited or no social media, but I have not made it a priority so far this year.
📔 Journal Daily - 🌀 (Changed) I realized this wasn’t serving me as intended and was feeling like a chore. So instead, I now own a coloring book + journal hybrid as well as some free writing notebooks. I am enjoying this approach a lot more even though it’s not a daily habit as I had intended.