Part 1: Take Inventory on 2023. Here's how:
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- From Jen Glantz' newsletter The Pick Me Up: The Goodbye Starts Now
- Open up a word document and write down each month of the year. Then go through last year’s calendar, week-by-week, and jot down the important events, significant moments, lingering memories and anything else that stuck with you during that time frame. For each month, I like to write down (3) wins and (3) things that didn’t go as well as I hoped.
- Use your phone’s calendar, search through photographs, look at your social media feed. All of those things can help you remember what happened month-by-month.
- Remember, nothing you write down is too small.
- Everything you write down matters.
- Fill in for November and December later on.
- But looking at the other 10-months, start to assign a few metrics to them.
- On a scale of 1-5 (1 being ehh and 5 being yay) how would rate the month?
- What lesson did you learn from the month and the rating you gave it? Ex: June was a 2 because I wasn’t taking care of myself and I was working way too much. The lack of balance messed with me mentally and set me back in a lot of ways. January was a 5 because I followed a good routine with my workouts and I was able to focus during work hours so that I could have time at night and weekends to see friends and do fun things.
- After auditing each month, what are your (3) takeaways from how you spent 2023? Ex: I wasted too much time on projects, people, and procrastinating on things that don’t matter.
- I’ll be back next week with part two of my year-end inventory game plan.