Remember How You Felt
Remember how you felt at the start of the year? When you had all of your plans, your goals and your excitement that this would be the biggest year yet? I don’t think you’d be alone if you admitted that you either forgot or may have lost a little interest if things haven’t been going exactly according to plan.
I’ll admit that I’m somewhere in the middle of being proud of how well this year has gone so far and disappointed that I’ve veered away from a few things that I wanted to prioritise this year which brings me to the purpose of today’s post. Today was the day of my quarterly reflection where I sit down and answer a few important questions to assess my progress so far.
What have I learned?
Have I been achieving my goals?
Am I working towards my purpose?
Have things changed and has this altered the direction I was heading in last time I sat down to complete this exercise?
What goals/actions do I need to follow moving forward?
To put the results of this exercise in a post would be a lot but I do want to include a few honest points to reveal where I am at with everything. These aren’t to brag or to get anyone to compare but the main reason I wanted to do this is to refer back to that amazing and motivating feeling of a beckoning new year with the goal of re-stoking that flame.
Yearly Goals Completed
Just one - The release of Attacking Life
Quarterly Goals Completed
Consistent posts in this Journal
New school event concept completed
Registered for 1 of 2 yearly physical challenges
Hit targets for keynotes booked in
Stuck to daily gratitude
Goals to work on
Publish writing work
Build Honest Boys website
Stick to weekly reflections
Speak internationally
While my quarterly goals are more like checkpoints that will eventually get me to my yearly goals, I still have plenty of work to do. It would be easy to focus on what hasn’t been achieved already and lament on time lost but the purpose of this exercise isn’t to criticise. It’s to reflect, reassess and work out a new plan to guide the next few months. I’ve learned that it’s all about the individual steps rather than the giant leaps and I hope that by sharing a bit about where I’m at with everything it might get someone to remember how they felt back on January 1st. There’s still plenty of time left in the year and I’m excited about that!