If you’re like me, taking time to reflect on the year and set intentions for the next one can be a powerful practice. A few reasons I love it:
Revisiting and celebrating accomplishments – work and personal
The opportunity to focus energy on what’s important for the future
It creates space to acknowledge and mark the passing of time (especially needed when during covid it can often feel like a “Blursday”)
But taking the time to “do reflection” also feels like it takes some effort. Where to start? Do I really have time for this? Have I even done anything worth reflecting on?
I recently learned the term productivity dysmorphia: the inability to see our own successes or to acknowledge the volume of our own output. It can be easy to constantly be looking to the next thing without properly taking time to acknowledge the energy, creativity, critical thinking, and genius that went into what you’ve already done. We don’t need stats to know that the past two years have been hard. Burnout is real, especially for working moms: I salute you.
To balance the societal current that is pushing us to do more, right now…I’ve realized I want to offer an opportunity to celebrate your wins! Right click on that worksheet at the top to download and fill in your own reflections.
If you want to do some future-focused work, I updated a visioning worksheet for 2022 – right click the image below to download it. I’ll also be participating in this Intention Setting Workshop on January 6th, co-facilitated by my wildly talented friend Abby Van Muijen.
More New Year, New Practices from the Archives:
A Gentle New Year’s Reflection - 2021
Tips for creating a Vision Board - 2016
Once again, thank you from my heart and soul for your support, great senses of humor, brilliant minds, collaboration and what you're each doing to make the world a better place.
Cheers,
