Welcoming 2024/New Year
Reflections Before Resolutions
Before you look ahead, take a quick look back.
Happy 2024! You may be busy setting goals or intentions for the year ahead — or, if you’re where I was in 2023, that may be a process that takes most of January. (And, psst, that work paid off big time so no worries if the sun sets on January 1 and you haven’t mapped out all 12 months just yet.)
Regardless of your process for looking ahead, I encourage you to first look back. It may be tempting to accelerate away from 2023 as fast as possible, leaving bad decisions and memories in the dust. But if you do, you’d miss out on recognizing what you’ve learned, how you’ve grown, and how to set a path that really fits what you need going forward.
As I share in a separate story, my year-end/year-beginning process has evolved over the years and has come to serve me infinitely better than lists of untethered goals — or promises to “only eat sweets on Sundays.”
My process now includes these eight questions:
- What did you discover about yourself in 2023?
