2025 Year in Review - What This Year Taught Us About Growth and Direction

Hey Reader,

Welcome back to The Strategic Compass, your companion newsletter to The Strategic Thinker podcast. Here, we break down powerful insights and practical actions to help you think long term and build the life of your dreams.

🔍 How to Use This Newsletter

✅ Scan the Highlights – Absorb the essence in moments.

✅ Apply the Strategies – Choose one idea and act on it.

✅ Reflect on the Insight of the Day – Let it guide your focus this week.

✅ Listen to the Episode – For richer context and examples.

Highlights From the Episode

This year moved quickly.
New tools. New expectations. New uncertainties. New opportunities.
Yet beneath the pace, something quieter was happening for many of us.
A shift in how we think, choose, and grow.

Below are three key themes from the episode, along with a short invitation to reflect before stepping into the new year.

1. 2025 Was the Year of Uncertainty

The world asked us to navigate more complexity than usual.
AI accelerated.
Job markets tightened.
Global supply chains reshaped overnight.
Geopolitical tension rose, especially across the Asia Pacific.

Uncertainty was not just a headline.
It was a lived experience.

This episode explores why uncertainty is not the enemy.
It is the environment.
And environments can be navigated when we learn to see challenges and opportunities as two sides of the same coin.

Reflection:
Where did uncertainty push you to grow this year?

2. The Strategic Thinker Evolved Too

2025 was a year of experimentation for TST.
A year where the mission became clearer.
To make strategic thinking more approachable and actionable for everyday life.

We introduced the Path to Greatness series, beginning with Kobe Bryant and Walt Disney.
We launched Sparks, short episodes designed to deliver clarity in minutes.
We explored topics from dreams to risk, from financial runway to antifragile habits.
And one of the most loved episodes was on Critical Thinking and Sherlock Holmes.

Thank you for shaping this journey with your listening, your messages, and your curiosity.

Reflection:
Which idea from TST helped you most this year?

3. A Five Year Vision Needs a One Year Runway

One of the most powerful parts of the episode is a guided visualisation.
You explore a version of yourself five years from now.
Not shaped by fear or limitation, but by possibility.

Once you picture that version, the question becomes simple.
What does the next twelve months need to look like for that future to begin?

One year is long enough to create a shift, yet short enough to focus your energy.

Reflection:
What is one shift you can make in 2026 that your future self will thank you for?

🎯 Insight of the Day

Clarity grows when you move, not when you wait.

🛎 Announcements & What’s Next

🎧 Listen to the Episode

To shape your path to greatness, listen to this episode now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or at MaisonTST.com.

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🎧 Coming up on The Strategic Thinker:
The last episode of 2025 will be a Spark before Christmas.
This is a perfect moment to pause, recalibrate, and close the year with purpose.

If you’d like to go deeper, I invite you into The Listening Room.

Inside the Listening Room, members are the first to listen, receive private conversations not shared publicly, and are occasionally gifted with strategic tools that make the ideas practical.

It’s a curated space for strategic thinkers. A quiet circle away from the noise, designed to sharpen your path to greatness. Join the waitlist → maisonTST.com/listeningroom

📚 Explore the Compass Archive

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Until next time, keep getting better everyday.

Greatness rewards the few who walk the path with intent.