Your Year Ahead
Wow, what a super interesting year! Right?!
If you're like a lot of the engineering industry right now you're still madly running around trying to get things finished and wrapped up before the Christmas break.
Things work wise are likely to be quite intense and busy right up until Christmas this year and then you'll be jumping right into family get togethers, parties and the holidays which also can be quite full on.
Today I'd like to remind you that it's incredibly important for you to create some space in all of the craziness and intensity of work and life to really reflect and evaluate the year you've just had.
Before you can look to 2024 and the year ahead, it is so important to evaluate the year that’s just gone - including its successes, failures, lessons and themes - before you think about next year and your goals and how you want things to be different.
You really want to understand what happened this year, why it happened and how to improve for next year.
I'm now going to outline a really simple questioning process for reflecting on 2023 and then using this to build an incredible 2024 - but before I do this - I really want to encourage you to make the time to do this exercise. Reflection on the past is such a powerful technique for building a better future, but no-one really makes the time for it.
If you do one thing over the next 2 weeks, its making 30mins to reflect on the year that’s just gone and writing down your answers to these simple questions:
1) Overall, how did my year go? Think back to the start and then follow the year through. How did it go?
2) What were my wins? What were the things that I’m really proud of doing or achieving?
3) What were my disappointments or regrets? What do I wish I did or didn't do?
4) What were 2 or 3 specific themes that kept occurring for me over the course of the year? It might have been a focus on family, or health, or business. What were my themes?
5) What were the major life lessons for me this year?
6) What were 3 things I’m really grateful for this year.
OK great! Now that you've taken the time to answer these questions - you've got 2 more:
7) What lessons, experiences, learnings do I want to take into 2024 with me?
8) What am I most excited about for 2024?
Again, this activity is such a great thing to do at the end of the year as you get set up for next year.
Reflection on the past gives you such clarity for the future.
We’re getting everything ready right now for our next intake into Boardroom, kicking things off in January 2024, and it’s going to be huge.
We’ve just released our new Boardroom roadmap as well as our Boardroom upgrades to our members, and our current clients couldn’t be more excited about what lies ahead for them and their businesses within Boardroom next year.
If you’d like to be part of this journey and kick the new year off with confidence, knowing that you’re now getting the help you need to build an incredible business, send me an email at [email protected] with the word “Boardroom” and I’ll get you all the details on Boardroom & about how we can help you grow your business with confidence in 2024.
Josh ‘The Year Ahead’ Stone
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