2025 is coming to a close, and before we welcome a new year, we must wrap up the old one. It doesn’t matter if you had the time of your life in 2025, or your 2025 resembled something from a horror movie; you have to close the chapter responsibly. This means answering 20 end-of-year reflection questions.
If you had a good time in 2025, then with these questions, you get to reminisce on the good memories and then figure out a way to bring that same energy into 2026. If 2025 sucked, then that means you learned a lot, and you get to take those lessons and make 2026 a great year.
Before I invite you to complete these journal prompts, I want us to be on the same page regarding the intention behind these questions. This is not the time to beat yourself up about things you did and didn’t do in 2025. This is the time to look back on the year you just had with curiosity. To be grateful that you survived it. Show yourself compassion and grace as you did everything you could to try to have a good year.
As you answer these questions, make sure to give yourself credit where credit is due, and lovingly hold yourself accountable when you need to.
Grab a journal and a pen and get ready to reflect on your 2025. Alternatively, I have created a free PDF with all the questions; you can answer the questions there or print the PDF.
End-of-Year Reflection Questions for 2025:
- What was the overarching theme of 2025? Was it a particularly difficult year? Was it the happiest year of your life?
- What goals did you achieve in 2025?
- List all your accomplishments from this year.
- What goals did you not achieve, and why?
- What was the biggest challenge you faced in 2025? How did you overcome it, and what did it teach you?
- How did you take care of your mental and physical health this year?
- Did you do anything this year that you’d never done before?
- In what ways did you surprise yourself this year?
- What memory from 2025 deserves a permanent place in your heart?
- Who supported you the most this year?
- What do you wish you’d done more of?
- What do you wish you’d done less of?
- What do you need to forgive yourself for?
Looking Forward to 2026:
- What do you want to focus on or do differently in 2026?
- What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
- What do you need to let go of before the new year?
- What is your top priority for next year?
- What skills or habits do you want to develop?
- What kind of person do you want to be by the end of 2026?
I hope these journal prompts provided you with the insight you need to move forward into the new year. But if you still don’t have the clarity you need, here are last year’s journal prompts.
Thank you for reading. Happy holidays!