70 Why, How, and When to Plan Your Personal Year In Review

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To skip straight to the main topic, scroll down a bit. Because this episode starts with a “date update.” The pics are from our visit to The Maryhill Museum of Art and surrounding area.

After 15+ years of being together, working together, and recently moving house, and starting an online store
it’s been difficult to find the time and energy to “go on a date!” But in this episode, we give you a “date update,” telling you about dates that we did manage to go on, in recent weeks, including The Maryhill Museum of Art, and featuring the best potato salad, made with love (not too much mayo, no mustard, and no pickles).

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Recommendations for Your Personal Year in Review

Why: stronger people are harder to kill and more useful in general. Being aware and intentional about what you give your time, attention, and resources to, helps make you ‘harder to kill and more useful in general.’

When: During the first two weeks of December

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What/How: Here are some possible questions to guide your introspection.

  • What occurred in the previous year that you can see as a touchstone, that you’re proud of (eg: a relationship that healed a bit in some way, a project your began, or one you completed)

  • In the previous year, what do you wish you did differently? (eg: Did you handle or mishandle a relationship in some way? Maybe you didn’t exercise as much as you had intended to.)

  • Now notice: is there anything that’s an open loop, something that you want to start but (still) haven’t, that comes up, again and again?

    • Decide whether or not you want to prioritize any of those things for the coming year, realizing that – and this is important – you can only truly prioritize 2 or 3 things. “A priority” after all, means it’s “at the top, it takes precedence, it’s higher in rank.” Once you’re 3 down the list, it’s by definition not much of a priority anymore.

    • NOTE: you are encouraged to say a firm and conscious “no” or “not yet” to whatever is not a priority, in order to say a strong “yes” to the Big Rocks.

  • Calendarize: schedule specific time blocks to devote to your priorities. You may already have a great idea of what specific tasks you’ll do; if so, schedule those tasks in your calendar so you can plan around them. You may not really know (yet) what the specific tasks are; if not, then just schedule times to sit down (or go for a walk) to research, or think about what those tasks are. The point is, schedule time for these priorities, so you can plan around them.

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