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A Week of Reflection / 20 Questions for a New Year’s Eve Reflection

I was talking to my Dad on the way home from Christmas and he mentioned the words, "this is the week for reflection...." The week after Christmas and before New Years is a great time to look back on your past year. What lessons are you going to take from it and apply to the next?
For me, this blog a lone has been a great way to reflect on different lessons and experiences I've learned throughout the year.

I decided to look up a couple different ways of reflection and how people plan out their New Years resolutions.

 

20 Questions for a New Year’s Eve Reflection

by Tsh on December 31, 2008in inspiration · 48 Comments

A new year is a great time to reset your internal clocks, re-calibrate your settings, and re-chart your course. There’s something encouraging and natural about using a fresh calendar page to make new goals in your life, which is why new year’s resolutions are so popular.
But made in haste, resolutions can be pointless at best, discouraging and depressing at worst. When they’re vague, broad, and unreachable, you’re almost setting yourself up for failure. But when they’re specific, productive, and attainable, resolutions can truly be an ebenezer in your life for some healthy changes.
The next few articles here on Simple Mom have the goal of helping you reflect on this past year, eagerly anticipate the upcoming year, and decide on some reachable goals that will recharge and mature you.

Reflect before you resolve

I’m in favor on new year’s resolutions – but why not also use the turn of the clock to reflect on this past year? Before deciding on how you want 2009 to be different than 08, take a moment with your journal and answer some – or all – of these questions.
These questions can be a catalyst for digging deeper into personal reflection, or they can be icebreakers between you and your spouse for a New Year’s Eve conversation. However you want to use them – use them to your benefit.
At the bottom of this post, I’ve also got a free, downloadable PDF containing all these questions, if you’d rather print a worksheet and keep it in your Home Management Notebook for easy reference.

Reflection Questions for 2008

 

1. What was the single best thing that happened this past year?

2. What was the single most challenging thing that happened?

3. What was an unexpected joy this past year?

4. What was an unexpected obstacle?

5. Pick three words to describe 2012.
6. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe your 2012 (don’t ask them; guess based on how you think your spouse sees you).

7. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe their 2012 (again, without asking).

8. What were the best books you read this year?

9. With whom were your most valuable relationships?

10. What was your biggest personal change from January to December of this past year?

11. In what way(s) did you grow emotionally?'
12. In what way(s) did you grow spiritually?

13. In what way(s) did you grow physically?
14. In what way(s) did you grow in your relationships with others?

15. What was the most enjoyable area of managing your home?

16. What was your most challenging area of home management?
17. What was your single biggest time waster in your life this past year?

18. What was the best way you used your time this past year?

19. What was the biggest thing you learned this past year?

20. Create a phrase or statement that describes 2012 for you.

Credits SimpleMom.net

One blog stated this at the end of her blog:

Slow down. Calm down. Look back at your year. Appreciate the journey you’ve made – the peaks and the valleys, the growth and the realizations. Be thankful for who you are, what you have, and the people who love you. Look forward to the upcoming year. Make plans that make sense for you, considering what you know you are capable of. Don’t limit yourself. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Rejoice in yourself. And know 2013 is going to be your year for greatness on your own terms.

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