3 Things You Need To Do Before The Year Ends
- MARYANN ALLEN
- Nov 8, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 12, 2019
What do you do as the year comes to a close? How are you feeling about your accomplishments in this current moment? Do you feel overwhelmed by 2019's misfortunes and tragedies, or did you have a busy year accomplishing your goals? Are you one of the ones who nag about all that has gone wrong or are you a person of gratitude regardless? Whatever emotional state you may find yourself in now, there is no one right way to climax the year. This article focuses on three ways to help you, through a growth mindset, climax the current year and launch into the new year.
1. Spend time Evaluating your year
What does this mean? How do you evaluate your year? A good question would be, did you have set goals you were working on this year that can be used to evaluate your progress? or were you just living one day at a time? It's quite difficult when you just go with the flow because there aren't set standards to measure against. Nevertheless, you may have had some experiences that have taught you a lesson or two for the new year. You evaluate your year by asking these six questions:
What went well this year?
What didn't go well this year?
What am I grateful for?
What have I learned, good or bad, from this year?
How have I grown this year?
What could I have done differently?
These six questions are a good way of putting your year into perspective and will help you harvest out your strengths, weaknesses, challenges, opportunities, emotions, spirituality, and plans for the next year. Whether you had a plan this year or not, these questions will give you an opportunity to take control of your life this new year.
2. Have a spirit of Gratitude
Let's be honest, It can be quite difficult to be grateful when your year was nothing but disappointments, setbacks, loss of loved ones, financial hardships, etc. Even for me who had a good year of hard work and travels, I was pretty bombed by the number of people who passed on due to cancer, accidents, and other health-related issues, regardless if I knew them personally or not. I had some bright ideas that I got off the ground, and experienced some financial strain as well. Overall, when I look at the world around me, I can be nothing but grateful. Grateful for life that I still have, grateful for good health that I most times take for granted, and grateful for all the lessons I've had to learn this year from mistakes and circumstances. What are you grateful for? Could you trade your home for a shelter? Your ability to walk for a wheelchair? Your independence to be bedbound? If you answered no to any of these questions then you have a reason to be grateful. Gratitude will elevate you from fear, doubts, depression, anger, and worthlessness, and will take you into the mindset of discovering your purpose and making use of your time left here. As you celebrate this holiday season, count your blessings and use the opportunities you have to make them better.
3. Plan for the next year
I guarantee once you evaluate your life and put the year into perspective? Your next step will automatically be to come up with a plan to make next year better. So how do you plan for the next year? You use the very same information you gathered from the six questions above and develop goals for the next year. Check out
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