Have You done your Year in Review for 2022?
This is a great time to reflect and do some journaling!
This year has been a wild ride for me and my family with moving to Germany from the US! So, there was a lot for me to reflect on as I was doing my year in review for 2022.
You can check out some of the highlights on my blog:
If you are thinking about doing a year in review yourself, it is a great time to look back at the last year with what went well, or what didn’t go as planned. You can revisit your goals from the beginning of the year, and decide what to do for next year.
Personally, I like to do a long free-form journal session to get out all my thoughts and feelings about the year and what I have accomplished. Then, I decide what I didn’t accomplish last year that I wanted to (like learning to be fluent in German!) and rewrite a new goal for this year with that information but a different strategy to accomplish the goal than I had used previously.
Then, I decide what else I would like to accomplish for the year on both a personal and professional level. I write out all my goals for the new year, and a metric and timeline for when I want to accomplish them!
For some tips on Journaling, check out this blog post:
Why Starting a Journaling Practice can have Many Benefits
If you are more visual or journaling doesn’t appeal to you, you can make a vision board instead. To do this, you would get pictures of things that you want to accomplish in the new year to make a collage of them. You can make a vision board with Pinterest too, since it is a visual search engine.
I usually do a board with a posterboard and paper, but this year I didn’t have any magazines to cut out pictures (because of our move) so I opted for doing Pinterest instead.
You can check out my vision board on Pinterest if you are interested to see what it looks like.
After I had done some reflection and written up my new goals, I feel so ready to take on 2023 with renewed excitement for my goals.
If you want more information on goal setting, you can also check out my ebook “Happy. Healthy. Rich. The smart mom’s guide to living your best life” on Amazon. I just republished it yesterday with a new cover art that I am loving!
In the next year I have some more book ideas coming your way too that I am super excited about! Coming your way first in early 2023 is “Practicing Buddhism in Everyday Life” which I am currently starting to edit.
I have some other surprises in store for all of you guys too. Don’t worry, I will keep you posted. I make sure to update all of you on my newsletter with new details first!
In the new year it is one of my goals to focus on this newsletter as a top priority, so be on the look out for more coming soon! I want to share all of my best tips with all of you who are my most loyal supporters. You guys all mean the world to me, I hope you know that.
With that in mind, I want to know how often you would like to receive updates, as well as your favorite topics to read about.
I look forward to seeing all the poll results from all of you soon! You have up to a week to vote in the poll, so make sure that you vote, so I know how often you all would like to be hearing from me here on the newsletter!
Have a wonderful New Year, my lovelies! I hope that 2023 will bring you all that you have been dreaming of.
And remember, if you are going to be drinking this holiday, please don’t drink and drive! You can get an Uber so easily these days there should be no need.
This issue touches me personally since my daughter Atlantis was in a car accident with a drunk driver last week. She is doing alright now (other than a cracked sternum and some bruises), but she was hit head on and her car was totaled. They told her 3 feet to either side and she could have been killed.
So, my friends, please - from the bottom of my heart - don’t drink and drive this holiday. Please make sure that your friends and family are safe too!
All the best,
Nicole Dake