Looking forwards

It was my birthday yesterday and I always find that for me its a good time to review my progress by looking back at past achievements, both personal and work, and then looking forwards to the future.  I choose this time cos its always easy for me to remember my birthday last year and how I celebrated it.  So looking back this year I realised that I hadn't acquired any new music since last year - no new CDs or downloads - I think that's pretty bad as I love to be surrounded by music both in the car and at home. So action point for the coming year is to get find some new sounds that I like.

Too often though what I have found is that we spend too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward. We dissect all those apparent failures with such precision and go over again and again what might have been, what could have been.  Looking back is a great way to inform our future. We should look back and learn from it, then look forward and make a new plan NOT dwell in the past and beat ourselves up about it.

So what can you learn from your life over the past week, month or year?  What are you going to do differently as a result of that, in your work or personal life? 

Comments

[Chantal Cornelius]

Hi Sue

I love your idea of using your birthday to remind you to review the year. I like to spend August planning the coming year, because the month is usually quiet and it gives me time to read, and think and plan. I'm going to use my birthday as a review point - its in January, so feels like a good time to do it!

Have a great year.

Chantal
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