Here are a few ways that have worked for me to reflect on my progress from the last 12 months, for your use in charting your course in the coming year.

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A Successful Methodology of Looking Back:
Your 2015 Year In Review
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• How was your year?
• Not the easiest question to answer
• Studies consistently show that we’re bad judges of our impact on the world around us
• We need to take stock, look over our performance subjectively, and extract the right
learning to chart a better course ahead

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• Ideas and methodologies that have worked for me to reflect on my progress
• Feel free to use them in charting your course in the coming year
So here are a few ideas

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• Spread the work over a few sessions
• You can get fatigued if you try to review everything in one go
• Schedule a few different times to do the work needed
Set up appointments with yourself

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Go over the results of the past year
• Review goals and progress made (leading and lagging metrics)
• Go over “the evidence”
• Performance reviews
• Notes about progress on projects and initiatives
• Sent Items email
• Keep a legal pad nearby to capture topics, thoughts, facts, and stats

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“So what?” Pull out the learning
• Explore the themes of the year, what strengths I used well, and what barriers I
found myself facing
• Separate personal items and challenges from work ones (even though they
might come together again later), or interpersonal issues from working style
concerns
• Ask a ton of questions, like “what is at the root of this barrier or
tension?” “How could things have gone differently, but why didn’t they?” “How
could I have better leveraged my own strengths or the strengths of my team in
this case?” and “What about this interaction went incredibly well?”
• Imagining how a positive, thoughtful interviewer could analyze my situation
and illuminate for me what has blocked my way forward

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Review your findings with a friend or coach
• Get some time with someone who you trust
• Open up and be prepared to hear that you may have missed the mark
• Ask your friend or coach to challenge your thinking and make sure you’ve
gotten down to core issues

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Make plans to attack anew
• Think through how to put your new knowledge into practice
• Pick a specific, actionable goal to meet
• Think about concrete ways to leverage your strengths to make progress and
succeed at each milestone on the way
• Establish a relatively clear path to follow that can get you there

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So Enjoy The Ride!
• Take some time now at the end of the year to reflect
• On where you’ve been
• And where you’re going
• Life is a journey, and we’re all just trying to find our way through together

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