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Yesterday, my mom told me she happened upon my horoscope prediction for 2022 and that I can look forward to my most successful financial year to date!

It was, in fact, the best news of the day, and perfect timing because I had planned to spend a few hours this first weekend of December beginning my annual “year in review” and “coming year preview” process.

The most personal, engaging, and comprehensive tool I’ve come across for doing this comes from the Lifebook program. It requires a super thorough reflection effort with a 50+ page workbook as your guide (gulp!). But it is an effort that gets easier with the passing of each year and a greater familiarity with the methodical system.

The exercise requires you to sit with your 2021 calendar and let it jar your memory to reflect upon numerous aspects of your life this past year. It prompts you to consider how you showed up for yourself and for others in areas such as your health, your character, your intellectual development, your children, your friends, your spouse or partner, your career and (yes!) your finances. The workbook invites you to reflect on obvious questions such as your greatest challenges and accomplishments. But, my favorite questions are the ones, my hunch is, most of us don’t think to ask ourselves very often, if at all.

Have you ever challenged yourself to:

• Describe your past year in one sentence?

• Reflect upon your smartest and worst decisions of the year and their lessons?

• Consider who influenced you the most as a friend, family member, or thought leader?

• Decide what you forgive yourself for in order to start the new year less burdened?

• Consider the things for which you have been most consistently grateful these past 12 months?

If you were a reader of my Think on It Thursday last year these questions may ring familiar. If you’ve never considered these questions or would like to consider them again, I invite you to do so with me this month.

Through playful reflection and introspection, we can all begin 2022 with a deeper understanding of self and what’s important to us. I believe that helps us form much more meaningful goals. The more meaningful the goal, the more achievable the goal. So, let's improve the odds for becoming as educated, as helpful, as fit, as trustworthy, or as WEALTHY as we set out to be in 2022!

Love,

Molly