New year, new start: Tried-and-tested strategies to help you achieve your 2025 goals

The best ways to ensure we reach our targets include aligning our goals with our values, learning from past mistakes, dropping self-limiting beliefs, and taking things one step at a time

January is an ideal time to set goals.

These early days of January are a time for reflection. A time when many make plans and set goals for the year ahead.

The trouble is that most of us have done this before and may not always have succeeded in our aims. As we look around at others who appear to be doing better than we are, we might find ourselves asking what they know that we don’t. What are the strategies they use to set themselves up for success?