Year-End Practices, Again!

This is my annual post encouraging readers to be intentional about ending the year, and starting the new one, as well as possible. Every year, I spend my morning quiet time in the days between Christmas and New Years treating the process of looking back at the year that was and ahead to the year that is approaching as a sacred practice. It is always engaging and rewarding. It’s time well-spent and I encourage you all to do something like it, to the extent that your life allows it.

If you are interested in taking some time to make your year end planning more meaningful, I have a few resources on the blog that you may find helpful:

1. A Year in Review Examen, based on the Ignatian Examen. This is a way of reflecting on the past year that focuses on successes, struggles, what worked well, and what areas might need attention going forward. My template is available for you to use in the resources section of the blog.
2. A series of posts on planning and goal-setting, including Identifying Values, a strategy for Goal-Setting, and Discernment of Desires.
3. The upheaval of the past few years has highlighted the need for flexibility in our planning, and so in 2020 I introduced a framework that helps me build this in to my whole planning process from the start: A Framework for Resilient Planning.