5 December 2022
We're about to start the last month of the year. And what a year it has been! Did you get on top of your resolutions? When you think about your 2022, how do you feel? As we know our professional life is directly connected to our mind and emotions, and our career goals are connected to what makes our soul happy, we would like to suggest an exercise to be done over the next few weeks, before the end of the year. This will help balance your professional and personal minds, which will put you in the right place to set your next life goals. Follow the steps: 1. Meditate Before you start, take a few minutes to connect with yourself. This can be done via meditation, breathing exercises, journaling or other. Choose what works best for you. The idea is to make you be present and concentrate on your intentions. 2. Take some time to review your year How was 2022 for you? On a piece of paper, write the challenges, accomplishments, highlights, feelings and everything that comes to your head when you think about the past 12 months. Remember every experience - good or bad - can become a learning. And that learnings make us grow. 3. Write down where and how you want to be in one year After everything you've been through in 2022, where do you want to be in exactly one year? Write what you want your year to look like - where will you be? What will you be doing? Who will be there with you? Remember to trust your potential here. 4. How are you getting there? No challenge is too big that you can't at least write down an action plan to overcome it. So write a plan that will help you arrive where you said you'll be. Can someone help you? Do you need to develop a new skill? Do you need to change anything in your life? This will help your goals become plans. And we'll see they're perfectly doable. 5. List the habits you want to quit - and those you want to start As an extension of the previous exercise, list the habits that are distancing you from your goals. It can be procrastinating, over-complaining, judging yourself and others, excessive alcohol, etc... Then write what you want to start doing - from reading more to waking up earlier. 6. Be grateful As we said before, you can learn from every experience you have, and these learnings will make you grow. Be grateful for who you are, how far you've come, and all those 'regular' things we often forget to look at - our health, family, friends, house... When you start enjoying the life you have, it becomes easier to build the life you want. 7. Welcome the new year Now breath deep and open yourself to new things. Be open to what 2023 is bringing - new experiences, people, feelings, and learnings. And every time you feel lost throughout the year, revisit this exercise. You got this. Happy December!