Don’t wait until New Year’s Eve to start your good resolutions.

By the way, It often doesn’t work.

Maybe because we don’t spend enough time on this exercise.

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
— Stephen R. Covey

What could be more important than preparing for the next year when you think about it?

How to prepare your next year?

There are many ways to do this exercise but in the end, they all revolve around :​

1. Reviewing the previous year: what have I learned
2. What I want to do next year: collect all my dreams
3. Deciding: this might be the most challenging part.
4. Getting started: blocking the dates in your diary.

My process looks like this.​

2021

• I review my life plan. It’s already written. I just have to adjust it.
• Rereading my 2021 journal. Examining one’s year is full of lessons. (see : Simple Habits Are Often Powerful. How To Amplify The Benefits Of Journaling?)​
• Check my progress on my 2021 goals.​

2021, A year in reading. My 8 books to implement new ideas in real life.

2022

• Regroup all my desires.
• Decide, as focus is critical, I have to choose
• Put the dates I want to work on my projects in my calendar.

When I’ve finished this, I feel ready to attack 2022.

And does it works?

One of “our” goals ( My wife and I) is to run the Zurich Marathon in April 2022. This morning, I ran 21 km with my wife, the last 10 km in freezing rain. What gave us the courage? And why can you do the same? 

This exercise has changed my life. And every year, I realize how powerful it is. I have achieved more in the last 6 years than in the previous 20.

Where I need to start. Set now in your schedule 2 hours to review the previous year and then block the second step.

Good luck…
Mr.OTG

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