New Year’s Reflections and Intentions

New Year’s brings hope of even better times ahead. Reflection and planning are an essential element of improving on your performance and ultimately, ensuring that you are living the life you want to lead. Below are a set of questions to help you reflect on what transpired over the last year and consider how you can maximize your enjoyment in the coming year.

Reflections on the Past Year

• • Events
    • • What were one to three particularly positive or negative developments?
    • • How were you at cause in what transpired?
    • • What can you turn into a process to repeat the positive or avoid the negative?

• • Decisions
    • • What were the most impactful decisions you made this past year?
    • • What decisions did you not make at the time that came back to haunt you?
    • • For each decision / non-decision, what was your balance of rational analysis vs intuition?

• • Self
    • • What personal habits or attitudes assisted in your success?
    • • What held you back?
    • • What guidance would you give your year-ago self?

• • Energy

• • What brought you joy? What disappointed you?

• • What/who gave you energy? What/who drained it?

• • What did you let go of? What are you holding on to?

• • Health
    • • How well did you take care of yourself?
    • • What are you particularly grateful for?
    • • How happy are you with your life?

Intentions for the Coming Year

• • Planning
    • • If we were speaking a year from now, what would need to have happened over this coming year for you to consider it to have been a successful year?
    • • When you consider your expectations, what are your blind spots and how can you address them?
    • • How resilient and flexible are your plans to unexpected (e.g. black swan) events?

• • Personal

• • How would your future self tell you to be this coming year?

• • What are your personal purpose, values, vision, and mission?

• • What will increase your happiness and sense of fulfillment? What would you regret if you weren’t to do it?

Best wishes to you, your family and your team for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!