Doing A Year-End Review

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

How I Review My Year

Things you’ll need:

• The crappiest notebook or the simplest note-taking app you have

• Time - set aside a time that is doable - 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes - if you’re not sure which to choose - start with 10 minutes.

“Jay… why the crappy notebook?”

Because NICE notebooks always seem to require profound words to be written in them and you won’t write in one unless what you have to say is profound - so do yourself a favor - get a cheap notebook.

Yeah like this 🤣 - dig one out of the closet…

STEP 1: Recalling…

Open it up and write this question: What has gone well this year?

Get the easy stuff out of the way - the things that naturally pop into your mind and write them down.

If important - write how that event made you feel and why you think it might have made you feel that way.

Then I just go back… November 2022… linger there a bit… And write down the things that come to mind that went well.

December 2022… same thing… And so on…

Sometimes I struggle to come up with things, so I try a different tactic - “What bad thing didn’t happen that I thought might happen… but didn’t” - in case you’re wondering those are things that went well 😄 

Don’t force the time - if you feel like you’re done - just be done for now and come back to it when you’re ready.

When your list is done, it’s ok to spend some time thanking God for these.

STEP 2: Revisiting…

On a new page, write this question: What didn’t go so well this year?