review your year

We are now well into the New Year and while many of us will have made New Year’s resolutions, how many of us review our year gone past by asking ourselves: ​

How was my year?  Things get thrown at us that we are not expecting – someone you know may have been ill or someone you know may have been made redundant – and it’s good to admit it actually was a really tough year or, a really good one.  Let it out and acknowledge the circumstances.  Then ask yourself:

• What was the single most important thing you did for yourself last year?
• What did you finish?
• What was a really good use of your time and energy?
• What are you proud of?
• When did you feel you’d made a difference to someone?
• What do you want to carry on?
• What do you want to stop doing?
• What do you want to let go of?

And finally: what stories are you going to stop telling yourself? “I’m the person who never…”, “that’s a great dream but I don’t have the money…”, “I will never see that through”.  Remember they are just stories, not facts.

The fact is, YOU make things happen, so go do it!