This template is designed to help you kickstart your journey toward personal growth and success in 2025. It’s built around three core steps—reflecting on your present, defining your future, and curating a personalized reading list to help you improve over time.
Step 1 - Question / Answer
Start by answering a set of guided questions to gain clarity on where you are and where you want to be.
| Question |
Answer |
| What do you not want out of life? |
- I don’t want a life … |
| What do you want out of life? |
- I want to … |
| 10-year goals |
- In 10 years, I will … |
| 1-year goals |
- By next year, I will … |
| 3 month goals |
- In 3 months, I will … |
| What skills and knowledge do you need to acquire? |
- I will acquire … |
| What are the distractions standing in my way? |
- I am currently distracted by … |
| Who do I want to become? |
- I want to become … |
| What would i attempt if I knew I could not fail? |
- I will attempt to … |
| What daily habits can I adopt to reinforce my new identity? |
- My daily habits will be … |
| What are my current weaknesses or limiting beliefs that hold me back? |
- I am being held back by … |
| Who are the people (or authors) I admire, and what can I learn from them? |
- I admire … |
Step 2 - Book Recommendation
Use pre-built prompts to generate a customized reading list based on your goals and areas of growth.
Steps —
- After you are done answering the question, you can select the entire table (with questions) and copy it.
- Go to your preferred LLM and write down the following prompt -
- Prompt - ” I have completed a self-reflection exercise to help guide my personal and professional growth. Based on my responses, can you recommend a curated list of books that align with my goals and challenges? Using this information, please suggest books that would help me overcome challenges, build new skills, and align with the identity I am trying to cultivate. I’m looking for books across categories like self-development, productivity, career, mindset, and any other relevant areas based on my answers. ”
- Paste the copied content
- Save the list of recommended books.
Reading Timeline
- After you have saved the list of recommended books. Send another prompt to ChatGPT.
- “Based on the book recommendations provided earlier, can you help me create a timeline for reading them by the end of 2024? I am able to read [insert your reading speed: one book a week, one book every two weeks, etc.]. Please organize the books in a way that each one builds on the lessons of the previous book, allowing me to improve incrementally and deepen my understanding over time. The areas I want to focus on are self-development, productivity, career growth, and mindset improvement, and I would like the books to be structured in a way that helps me grow progressively across these areas. “
- Add the books to your calendar, or to the timeline or table below.
Reading TImeline
The above timeline is based on 1 book a week. You can change it based on your preference and availability.
Moreover, you can even use the table below to simplify it.