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Be your best self in 2025: What Will You Leave Behind in 2024?

What if 2025 could be the year you truly show up for yourself? In this episode, I’m kicking off the Be Your Best Self in 2025 Challenge by asking a simple yet transformative question: What will you leave behind in 2024?
Before you listen:
- Grab your Be Your Best Self in 2025 Workbook: workmuse.com/bestself
Too often, we carry the weight of the past into the new year—old habits, limiting beliefs, or relationships that no longer serve us. But this year, it’s time to let them go. Join me as I guide you through an intentional exercise that will make you feel all kind of warm fuzzies to reflect on your most joyful, impactful, and hardest moments of the past year, and decide what you’ll leave behind to make space for a powerful, fresh start.
In this heart-to-heart episode, I open up about my personal story of resilience for the very first time, and the magic that unfolded when I leaned into these exercises myself. If you’re ready to release what’s holding you back and step into your full potential, dive into Episode 23.
Let’s leave last year’s rocks behind and create a fertile garden for 2025.
Here’s a glance at this episode:
Download your workbook, throw on your air pods, and dive into Episode 23 starting with:
- [02:15] Why January isn’t the time for bold resolutions and how easing into the new year sets the stage for real change.
- [4:25] How the Be Your Be Self Challenge originated and the impact it had not only for our Work Muse community but in my own life.
- [05:15] My personal story of resilience while navigating one of the hardest seasons of my life when I became a caregiver to my mom and why I’m sharing the details publicly now that they are a scar and not a wound.
- [9:38] How the Be Your Best Self Challenge impacted my life in 2023, leading to magical opportunities like slow-living in Oaxaca, family reconnection, and unexpected vacations.
- [15:30] How the challenge works and to identify What to Leave Behind by recognizing habits, beliefs, and relationships that no longer serve you.
- [20:18] What I’m leaving behind in 2024 and how I’m holding myself accountable as I move into 2025
- [22:00] Conclusion and Next Steps: Encouragement to complete the “Be Your Best Self in 2025 Workbook” and a preview of the next episode focusing on choosing your word of the year.
Listen in because the time to make your next bold move for your career and life is now! Your job share is just waiting to transform your life
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Links mentioned in this episode:
- Grab your Be Your Best Self in 2025 Workbook: workmuse.com/bestself
- Facebook Community: Job Share, Live Life + Slay Work
- Work Muse Instagram
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- Melissa Nicholson LinkedIn
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Melissa Nicholson job shared for nearly a decade and is the Founder & CEO of Work Muse. Work Muse drives the adoption of job sharing in business as a source of competitive advantage while helping individuals find work-life balance. Join the #JobshareRevolution here.