In our post last week titled, Your Life, we encouraged you to join us as we plan for the year ahead.

While it’s important to spend time thinking about your future, we’ve found that it’s more powerful to consider your vision for your future after you’ve taken a look back at your past year.

So the question is, “Where have you been?”

To support you in your reflections, we’re providing you a few suggestions to get you started.

  • If you had goals from last year or have done our Life Priorities exercise, you can use either of those as your foundation, and ask yourself questions like:
    • What am I pleased with? What were my successes / accomplishments?
    • What’s been challenging? What obstacles were in my way?
    • What did I learn? What would I like to do differently moving forward?
    • What feels out of balance?
    • In order to live a satisfying life, what do I need to start, stop, or continue doing?
  • If you’d prefer to think more broadly about the past year, look over the same questions in number one, and see what comes up for you. As you’re looking through them, consider both your personal and professional life.
  • If you’d like to use something more comprehensive, consider our Personal Assessment exercise in this link.

As you’re reflecting on last year, think about how you can capture your answers in a way that’s personal to you. Some suggestions that have worked well for us and our clients are:

  • Write yourself a letter.
  • Create a word cloud.
  • Draw, paint, or cut out images/words.

This week, take some time to look back and think about how you’ve spent this past year. This will help you as you envision the various ways you want to spend your time next year.

If you’d like a PDF version of this post that also includes our Personal Assessment exercise, click on the link below.

Your Yesterday

As always, we encourage you to share your reflections with us, colleagues, friends, or loved ones.

Stay tuned for next week when we’ll ask, “Where are you going?”

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