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Reflection Points
Take a few days to review the last year.
- What did you learn, both positive and negative? What mistakes did you make? What were your biggest wins?
- Do you see a pattern to any of your mistakes? Can you see that many of your challenges are caused by committing the same mistakes year after year?
- Now, consider your friends and family. What challenges did they face? What were their successes? What can you learn from them?
- Take the best and the worst from your past and learn from them. Make use of that information to enhance your life.
Identify those behaviors that support your success. Perhaps you made your spouse feel loved and lost 25 pounds. Those are the type of behaviors you want to repeat.
- Procrastination: Take immediate action when you know something needs to be done. Remind yourself of the pain procrastination has caused in the past and imagine how amazing it will feel to complete the task.
- Late to work: Place your alarm on the other side of the room so you’re forced to get out of bed. Choose your clothes the night before. Commit to leaving the house in plenty of time.
- Spouse: Spend 15 minutes each day doing something nice for your spouse. Remind yourself of what you love about them.
- Lost 15 lbs: Continue making healthy food choices and working out three times each week.
Monitor yourself. If you’re not careful, you’ll quickly slip back into your old patterns of behavior. Change is challenging, and you can expect to face a lot of internal resistance. Avoid being too hard on yourself when you slip. Just vow to redouble your efforts in the future!
Celebrate your successes. When you apply what you’ve learned from last year, you can expect some great things to happen. Appreciate them and be proud of yourself. This is the best way to ensure good things keep happening. Reinforce your behavior by feeling good about yourself.
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Appreciate them and be proud of yourself – something I am planning to work on next year!
love all those planners, so cute! Thanks for the reminder to do a little reflection
Find alternatives to your least effective actions. I absolutely love this!
It is so important to think back and plan for the future.. I never give myself credit for what went right and celebrate my successes..thank you for the encouragement to do so.
Yes! Please acknowledge what you do that is right and celebrate success. It really does help when things seem like nothing is going right.