Just Keep Swimming Podcast · Adrian Jackson

2025 Reflection Questions

·22 min
In this year-end episode of Just Keep Swimming, host Adrian Jackson walks through five reflection questions for 2025, sharing personal stories about discovering self-discipline, walking away from flag football refereeing due to organizational toxicity, and finding purpose serving students as a school counselor. He titles his year chapter 'Smiling in the Fire' as a testament to showing up through adversity.

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A plainspoken year-end reflection on what was lost, what came back, and what opened next.

The episode follows Adrian as he weighs what he let go of this year. Leaving flag football was hard, but the reason is plain enough: the people around it no longer seemed aligned with what it was meant to be, so he stepped away and got his weekends back.

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Press play if you need a blunt year-end reset about letting go.

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