Reflections on 2024

  1. Name your important events and experiences of last year.

    1. By Calendar (take a few minutes to look through your calendars, notes or anywhere else you track your schedule to identify the main activities of each month of the last year. Don’t limit yourself to work activities, consider health, relationships, creativity and all other aspects of your life)
    January
    February
    March
    April
    May
    June
    July
    August
    September
    October
    November
    December

    b. By Category (note the 2-3 highlights of your year according to category - the previous exercise should help you crystallize this)

    1. Personal Life/Family
    2. Career
    3. Friends, Community
    4. Hobbies/ Creativity/ Relaxation
    5. Physical Health/ Fitness
    6. Mental Health, Self-Knowledge
    7. Habits
    8. What did you do for the world this year?

Growth / Learning

  1. How did these events and experiences shape you? Write how you’ve grown this last year and what has influenced you to be who you are today. How are you importantly different today from the beginning of last year?
    1. What was the biggest surprise of the year?
    2. What was the biggest thing you completed/ What are you most proud of?
    3. What is the best thing you discovered about yourself?
    4. What are you most grateful for?
    5. What were your three biggest challenges from the last year?
    6. Who or what helped you overcome those challenges?
    7. How did this year further help you identify what you are uniquely good at?

Closings

  1. Write down the important parts of yourself and your life that have ended this last year. What was shed, what chapter closed, what has been laid to rest, run its course?
  2. Did anything happen during the past year that still needs to be forgiven? Deeds or words that made you feel bad? Or are you angry with yourself? Write it down to forgive.

Wrap Up

  1. What three words defined your past year?
  2. What would the title of your past year be if it was a book or movie?
  3. Anything else you need to write down or anybody you need to say goodbye to?

Aspirations for 2025

Future Visioning

  1. If it were 5 years from now, what would your life look like ideally? What are the things you want to explore in the world?
  2. Who are people to learn from? People living the life you want to live that can guide you?
  3. What would need to happen in each of the next four years for this life to come to fruition?