Reflective Activity
It's important to have some time to reflect each year, not just about your jobs, careers and where you are going, but also on how you've approached the year. The following originally came from David Allen's Getting Things Done. It’s been adapted along the way and is a useful tool to help assess your year and ensure you take note the great things you've achieved. The questions are asked in a very articulate, insightful and sensitive way. Enjoy.
Completing and remembering last year by reflecting on these questions.
Review the list of all completed projects.
What was your biggest triumph?
What was the smartest decision you made?
What one word best sums up and describes this years experience?
What was the greatest lesson you learned?
What was the most loving service you performed?
What is your biggest piece of unfinished business?
What are you most happy about completing?
Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life?
What was the biggest risk you took?
What was the biggest surprise?
What important relationship improved the most?
What compliment would you like to have received?
What compliment would you like to have given?
What else do you need to do or say to be complete?
Creating the new year by reflecting on these questions:
What would you like to be your biggest triumph?
What advice would you like to give yourself?
What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results?
What would you be most happy about completing?
What major indulgence are you willing to experience?
What would you most like to change about yourself ?
What are you looking forward to learning?
What do you think your biggest risk will be?
What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving?
What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore?
What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of it?
Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving?
What one word would you like to have as your theme?
Now find a way to complete these.
Completing and remembering last year by reflecting on these questions.
Review the list of all completed projects.
What was your biggest triumph?
What was the smartest decision you made?
What one word best sums up and describes this years experience?
What was the greatest lesson you learned?
What was the most loving service you performed?
What is your biggest piece of unfinished business?
What are you most happy about completing?
Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life?
What was the biggest risk you took?
What was the biggest surprise?
What important relationship improved the most?
What compliment would you like to have received?
What compliment would you like to have given?
What else do you need to do or say to be complete?
Creating the new year by reflecting on these questions:
What would you like to be your biggest triumph?
What advice would you like to give yourself?
What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results?
What would you be most happy about completing?
What major indulgence are you willing to experience?
What would you most like to change about yourself ?
What are you looking forward to learning?
What do you think your biggest risk will be?
What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving?
What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore?
What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of it?
Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving?
What one word would you like to have as your theme?
Now find a way to complete these.
