41 questions to ask yourself every year (2025 edition)

05 Jan, 2026

It's end of the year, thus time for some self reflection! This year I'm keeping the answers private, but here are the questions so you can do this yourself :)

(to keep things fresh some questions are removed and some added compared to last year, like usual)

1. What did you do this year that you'd never done before?
2. Did anyone close to you die?
3. What cities/countries did you visit?
4. What country would you love to visit?
5. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
6. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
8. What other hardships did you face?
9. Did you suffer illness or injury?
10. What was the best thing you bought?
11. Whose behavior merited celebration?
12. Whose behavior made you appalled?
13. Where did most of your money go?
14. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
15. What song will always remind you of this year?
16. Compared to this time last year, are you:

• happier or sadder?
• thinner or fatter?
• richer or poorer?

17. What do you wish you'd done more of?
18. What do you wish you'd done less of?
19. How are you spending Christmas?
20. Did you fall in love this year?
21. What were your favorite movies/shows/books/your-choice-of-medium?
22. What's your favorite color right now?
23. What was your favorite meal?
24. What did you want and get?
25. What did you want and not get?
26. What did you do on your birthday?
27. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
28. How would you describe your personal fashion this year?
29. What kept you sane?
30. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
31. Who did you miss?
32. Who was the best new person you met?
33. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
34. What advice would you give yourself a year from now?
35. What advice would you give yourself a year ago?
36. What's your philosophy?
37. What's most important to you right now?
38. Are you more confident this year compared to last year?
39. Any other thoughts about the year?
40. What quote sums up your year?
41. What word sums up your year?

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