That time of year
Back at the end of 2018 I sent a survey out asking for comments on what worked well with this email along with a voting option for topics to guide what I write about each week. The top 5 topics were:
Joy in Work
Wellbeing
Resilience
Culture
Leadership
I've taken a bit of time to look back over the year of Jedi musings, all 46 of them [I know] and while not every email hit one of these topics specifically, there was a fair spread across them all.
This was a year that included the shooting at Christchurch which stumped me for words of meaning to say. There was my personal space of having a fall and learning what a big deal concussion is and yes, using this email as a way to process not only these events but as a way to respond to what I saw those around me dealing with. Not many of these more personal emails made it to the website which has only seen 14 of what I share made public. This was one of the most popular emails.
I completed the Joy in Work course from IHI and shared the steps I went through with you. Several books got discussed and shared and while not listed as key topic emotional intelligence, along with a selection of the range of emotions we can experience, seemed to be a recurrent theme.
It was the year that had me paying forward my book collection with my first [and pretty successful] book giveaway. I'll certainly do another one of those.
As we get to that point in the year, a time of reflecting and looking back. Maybe with wonder or disappointment. Amazement or regret. Either way, this is a moment in time. While it's not everyone's cup of tea, I enjoy the act of reflecting, to consider the lessons, the moments to celebrate, what I'll do differently, what I'll stop, what I'll do more of. This time last year, I considered 2018 as my year of experiments, I'm not quite sure how I'll title 2019 just yet.
I went on a bit of a mission and have a range of end of year tools that might be right for you:-
Year Compass
Unravel your year
The Focus Course [paid course]
Conduct your own annual review
Goals, plans and reflections curated in a Pinterest Board right here
More reading right here:
End of year reflection
10 questions to ask as seen in Forbes
So there you go, take what you need, even if it's just a moment.
