Beal Kim: So, as I mentioned, today is about reflecting on your personal 2025, and that again entails all aspects of your life. We'll set intentions for 2026. The majority of our time is around reflection. The intention setting is the kind of the tail end part, but really is being able to celebrate, reflect, understand what 2025 was for you, that you get to attribute meaning to.
And then what do we wanna do with that information, right? What do we wanna do as we look ahead, and then like I'll hone workshops, as you know, a commitment. How do we wanna translate any of these intentions into one commitment to an action? We are gonna set a couple of community agreements. The first and foremost is I really want you to come into this with the mindset and headspace that this time is yours.
It's for you. So as I always tell my kids, you get what you put in, right? You get out what you put in. I know that, oh my goodness, [00:01:00] especially at this time of year, there's a lot of things tugging at us. You're gonna get pings and you're getting emails, and you're getting, you know, whoever is in your space.
My request is please be present. Resist multi multitasking as much as you can. In the chat, Sunil has put a link to the learner guide. It is an interactive learner guide that you can use, but actually I also just highly encourage, have a pen and paper. I'm a tactile person. I like to just use pen and paper.
And for this, it will require some things that are beyond bullet points that just might be easier if you use pen and paper. So definitely if you don't have that. Give you some time, go get pen and paper, come back and then, whew. 2025 has been a year. That's different for each one of us. There may have been a lot of hardship.
On a scale of one to 10, if you know that there, you might be going to a eight, nine, or 10, and that's gonna be really painful for you or [00:02:00] something that's gonna be really hard. My request is in this space is please do what you need to take care of yourself, right? Do what you need to take care of yourself.
I'm not gonna force anyone to share their camera if they don't want to. Like, this is for you. This is your time, so please do what you needed to take care of yourself. All right, we're done with the community agreements. Everyone agree. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to put in the meeting chat.
There's a question. Fern said someone joined with read.ai. That is a good question. Sunil, I don't know if you have thoughts or if HONE has a policy on AI note taking, especially because I'll be reading out folks comments and if that's going to interrupt or pierce the kind of container that we're cr we're creating.
My request actually is if you are using an AI note taking for our workshop today, will you, not for this [00:03:00] purpose, just so that we can kind of keep the community container just us for now without the ai. Sunil, I don't know if you don't mind just telling me if there's a home policy,Â
Sunil: I'm not sure about policy, but I see that they have stopped using it now.
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Bea Kim: Okay. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you.
2025 has been a big year. It's been a big year. There's been a lot of different changes. My goodness, the huge intake of AI and what that means in terms of just disruption to the workforce. There we got a new Pope, right? There's been a lot of kind of at the global level global level, a lot of changes.
There's been economic impacts, there's been political impacts, there's been natural disasters. And I just wanna highlight that this has been providing a backdrop and a context to our [00:04:00] lives. And as that, that we're not even talking about our own personal. Ups and downs, right? Our own personal ups and downs. So I wanted to highlight that we do have this as a backdrop, but what does that mean for us in terms of our own personal 2025? So we're gonna jump right into the exercise, and our first exercise is that I wanna give you about five minutes or so to really reflect on your own 2025 and recall any significant moments, right?
It could be highlights, it could be low lights, it could be lessons you've learned. It could be anything. If you would like to use something that would jog your memory, it could be photos, a photo album that you have online. It could be your calendar, but I'm gonna give you about five minutes to list down.
I like to think about a chronologically January all the way through December. Big wins, joyful moments, highlights low lights, difficult periods that impacted you. [00:05:00] So again, pen to paper or you can use the learner's guide, but I'm gonna give you about five minutes. This time is really for you, but I'm for the purpose of the group, I'm gonna, I'm gonna move on to what we're gonna do with your list. So in your learner guide, but again I highly encourage on your piece of paper, we're gonna start plotting. We're gonna plot those significant high and low moments of 2025 on a timeline.
So what that looks like is simply create a y axis and an X axis exactly as this looks like. And what the X axis here looks, represents is time. So really the time of 2025. So anything that happened in January would be closer to the top front on the left side. Anything that's closer to now would be more towards the right, right?
June or July is probably gonna be somewhere in the middle and then [00:06:00] highs. And you get to deem right, this is your personal highs and lows. Was it a high moment for you? Was it a low moment for you? Now, there may be things where it's like, gosh, there isn't one particular moment, right? Maybe this was something that dragged on for a while, or it was both high and low.
That's okay. Feel free to plot them. But what we're gonna do is then plot, plot these on the timeline, just like this. And then we're gonna connect them so that you can visually see. What 2025 looks like for you. And again, if it's like, oh, I don't know, is both a high and a low, feel free to put both.
There's no right or wrong on this. So that is the next portion of the exercise. And again, I'm going to give you about [00:07:00] three, four minutes
I always like to look through, scroll through the videos to see gauge where people are. So again, if you're still plotting, that's okay, but we're gonna move on to what this means. So when did you notice? What, how was that exercise? What do you notice about your 2025 journey line? Any observations, thoughts?
If you wanna put in the chat, if there's any brave person who wants to also come off of mute. I'll go and share. YeahÂ
N/A: it, once you plot it, it makes you feel better. Ah, because I think a lot of times, and I don't even think I know for sure we tend to hold on to the things that did not like necessarily go the way we intended for them to go.
So we kind of hold on to like the bad stuff. It's kind of like when you do like performance or merit review, I always tell people like, you should have a running chart that you're keeping for the employee the entire year because you're [00:08:00] going to remember when they missed the deadline. You're not going to remember when they stayed late for you seven times.
You know what I mean? So. It's like that same type of thing. When you visually plot it, you can see like all of the positives, all the ups. So even though there may have been times where things weren't exactly the way you picture them to be, there were other areas that kind of made up for it. So it kind of reinforces that like the year didn't suck, if that sensitive.
Bea Kim: Yeah. No, Maya, thank you so much for sharing. And you know, as I'm reading through people's comments as w Well, and I'm hearing similar things, right? I'm also seeing some folks shaking their head Yes and nodding in agreement. It's like, whew. Yeah. So those ups were helpful to visually be able to see is really helpful.
I'm seeing Beth's like, I have whiplash or like, oh gosh. It was easier to be able to see more highs than I expected. Good rollercoaster and then even some observations too that I'm noticing [00:09:00] about Wow. Like all the negative moments have been in a specific span of time. And also even like wow.
Really high highs and also some really low lows. Yeah. Beautiful. Joe a difficult year, but there were some legit highs that I gloss over. Yeah. Beautiful. Kind of just acknowledgement that Yeah. Again, we might have as humans, just the bias towards remembering the times that we slipped on that deadline or whatever.
And then this is a good reminder of like, wait, there were some legit highs here. Joel, no. Flat lining here. That's good. Yeah. We're all alive. That's right. We're all alive. Beautiful. So. Keep these coming. Again, just being able to observe, seeing kind of on a timeline what that looked like. This next phase is I'm gonna ask you some prompts, some reflection prompts, and here again, I'm going to give you about [00:10:00] three minutes to really think through what did I learn about myself this year, right?
I'm a coach, so that's a good coaching question. It's constantly like, what do I choose to take away about what I've learned for myself? What did I learn? What do I appreciate from this year? And who, right? Oh my goodness. Being able to really activate gratitude. What words of advice would I give my January 20, 25 version of myself, knowing all that I know now, living the year that I've lived, and what metaphor, theme word, image phrase, sums up my year of 2025.
Okay, so I'm gonna give you about three minutes or so.
I am seeing some really good responses here. A lot of themes too. Overall, it's things like, gosh, I'm stronger than I give myself credit for. You know, control the things that you have within control and then let it go. [00:11:00] Nikki, I'm seeing that from you. Joe, things won't get better on their own. You must take action and not expect immediate results.
Yeah, I'm resilient. This too shall pass Elle. Nothing lasts forever, Diane. Yeah. Rands, keep showing up for the things that light you up when something big and hard hits let people support you and don't rush yourself through it. Good grief. There is so much wisdom here in this room. So much wisdom.
Keep these coming because now here's where the most powerful stuff comes in. The most powerful stuff is when you get to share, to really be seen, to give yourself some time to listen to others. So, we're gonna break out in trios.
For the sake of time, my request is will you put in one word in the chat of what you are feeling at the moment? Feeling. If you could just [00:12:00] quickly put into chat one word that really encapsulates how you're feeling Connected. Hopeful. Connection. Gratitude. Hopeful. Grateful. Grateful. Satisfied with being present.
Encouraged joy. Purposeful. Another. Hopeful. Another hopeful. Peace, joy. Great. Grateful. Purposeful. Wow. Lots of proud. Yeah. Beautiful. Here's my request for you. This is a homework assignment. The homework assignment is those words of advice that you would give January 20, 25 version of you. Write it down somewhere.
Put it somewhere, put on a sticky note. It doesn't have to be fancy. Put it somewhere that right where you wake up, or in your workstation or on your refrigerator or whatever. Put that somewhere, 'cause I'm willing to [00:13:00] bet those words of advice will still serve you for 2026. Okay? Okay, homework. Brave, reflective, beautiful.
So now and Sunil, do you mind muting for, so there's like a sound that I'm hearing. I don't, do you mind muting yourself if you're not on mute? Now we're gonna turn over to setting intentions. And again, remember at the beginning I shared with you this mostly is about reflection. That's the important part because when you give yourself time to reflect, guess what?
You do something with it. You can do something with that reflection. And now we're going to apply what we've reflected on of what does this mean for me in terms of how I want to show up, what lessons I've learned about me in 2025 and how that applies for 2026. So this one is much quicker. It's 2026 [00:14:00] intentions.
Three questions. What word, phrase, image, or metaphor do you want for 2026? Remember my last question for 2025 is what captured 2025. Now, what do you choose? What do you want for 2026? What do you need to make your word or phrase possible? And then what's commitment? What is one commitment that you want to make for yourself now for 2026?
If you are not done, that's okay. 'cause you're gonna spend some time being able to talk about it with someone else. Here's. Here's my request. As you break out, we're gonna break out in pairs now, and if there's an odd number, Sunil, feel free to put someone in threes. But you are gonna split the time, so we're gonna have five minutes.
One person is gonna share, and then the other person, please listen and put your coach's hat on, right? Your coach's hat is gonna be one who's curious, who's also going to see like, hey, [00:15:00] really, what do you need to make your word or phrase possible? Right. What will really support you? For example, if you don't mind me using you as an example, Karen, I love that better time management.
What does that look like? What does that look like? What will support you from managing your time better? Are you a calendar person? Is it a accountability thing? Is it making sure that you prioritize the growth piece? And what does, what can that look like for you? Right? So that's gonna be my request.
And you're gonna have five minutes, so about two and a half minutes each for each person. So this one I really want you to just kind of enrich, have a dialogue and have the put on your coach's hat too when you're thinking about what that can look like to support each other. So, Sunil, again, I'm gonna ask you to do your magic.
If we can break out in pairs and we'll have about five minutes.
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People are always smiling after breakouts, like you just see just more joyous faces. I love to see it. Welcome back. How was it? How has reflecting on 2025 applying any learnings or things in 2026? How was that discussing others? Just love to hear your experience. If we wanna have one person come off mute, but also feel free to share in chat how this has been.
It went by fast. The time flew by. That was quick. Yes. I'm noticing a pattern here. Too fast. Too fast. Okay. We'll make sure to add a little bit more time next time. We're so ready for 20, 26 Rams. Yeah. Two, two more weeks. About two more weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. Common themes with both breakout rooms. Hearts are longing [00:17:00] and listening.
Yeah. Longing for what? Longing for what? I'm curious. I'm curious.
It is amazing how much encouragement you can get from new friends. Connection. All belonging for connection. I see. Thank you, Polly. We experienced so many of the same things that have different names. Yeah. That is something I see time and time again, Joe, and I don't know if I'm if people are nodding in agreement.
The power of sharing is also being able to realize not only am I not alone, but also my experiences. There's something beautiful of knowing like we long for the same things we desire, we have the same fears, we have the same hopes. There's something really comforting about that and that sharing. Yeah.
Beautiful. Feel free to keep sharing, but here's the last thing Sunil is gonna put into the chat. [00:18:00] I know Hone has their commitments that you can go and put in, into the hone platform. My request is this print out, you know how I gave you homework about the words of advice for 2026 Again we are humans that have brains that will tend to forget things That's just.
Part of human nature. Print out the word phrase, image or metaphor you want for 2026 along with your commitment. Put it up somewhere. I like to hire a local calligrapher who then actually does it, makes it beautiful. It's a beautiful piece of art, but it's also there next to my workstation. It really helps me to remind me.
Ground me that this is what I want for myself. This is what December of 2025 B wanted for herself. And then partner with an accountability buddy. It can be anyone. It could be your significant other, it could be your new friend that you just chose. But re there is so much research that backs that.
If you have an [00:19:00] accountability partner that then you check in on a regular cadence. Biweekly, could be monthly, but biweekly works best to support you on your commitment, then the likelihood of you actually having that commitment come through, guess what? It goes from 50% all the way up to 95%. Again, if you have that regular commitment and accountability.
So I highly encourage you to do that.
Oh karaoke you're saying getting the, oh no, unfortunately you're not enrolled in this class. From the link for me. Hey, Sunil, if you don't mind, could you, do you mind following up and making sure that the link is working for folks? And if it's not, then we'll make sure that, that happens.
And that's it. So the last piece is do the, you can do this exercise with your loved ones that you can do, use the learner guide, you can use this sheet of paper. Feel free to do that. Just, you know, there's also these other ones. And then the very last thing I do is a hip hop radio that's just on YouTube that I like to [00:20:00] have in the background as I do reflection.
That's it, folks. That's the last slide I have for you. Thank you so much for giving yourself this gift for you to spend some time reflecting. If you have any questions, comments feel free to, do I have a reach out to me? You, I don't have a slide that says reach out to me, but you can be more than welcome to reach out to me, be Kim [email protected].
But I'm here. I'm happy to respond to anywhere, all requests or questions. So thank you allÂ
