An exercise to wrap up the year...

Hey everyone!
 
Yesterday I met up with a friend / fellow business owner.
 
We had a manifesting and planning session (which I hope will now become a yearly thing - it was awesome!)
 
There’s something so fresh and exciting about a new year... all those possibilities!
 
A chance to wipe the slate clean :)
 
Before our session, I'd been mulling over the things I want to work towards in 2025.
 
But before we got started, my friend suggested an exercise for wrapping up this year.
 
It’s super simple (always a win in my book!)

How it's done... 

We basically took a piece of paper and wrote in the middle:
 
WHAT'S BEEN GOOD IN 2024
 
Then we noted down as many things as we could think of.
 
The good thing about doing this with a (trusted) friend is that we could remind each other of things we’d done during the year.
 
[For example, travel is really important to her, but she’d forgotten about the trips she took to Norway and Bali!

For me, I could remember some of my business wins, but had forgotten about getting a place in the London marathon next year and obtaining my Mental Health First Aid qualification… oops!]
 
It’s easy to forget all things we accomplish in a year. And small things are important too.
 
(Eg: one of my wins was just setting a really important boundary with people in my life.)

Over to you... 

We all know it's a busy time of year.

So if you have the spoons, or you find yourself with a few minutes to reflect (waiting in the car / while the coffee pot is boiling...?) think about this simple question:
 
What was good for you in 2024? 
 
Maybe you had a tough year and you can only think of a couple of things; that's okay*.
 
Or maybe you've been working really hard on something, and your efforts paid off this year and you have lots to note down. 
 
Either way, while we're moving from one year to the next, it can be a nice way to close off one year by looking at what went well.

So take a pen and paper, and think about the following...

My good things in 2024:

1.
2.
3. 
(etc)
 
*Finding it hard to think of things? That's okay! If there aren't many good things on your list for 2024, see what learning you can take from it:

• What would you want to change for 2025?
  
  
• What is in your control?
  
  
• What would you like to get rid of next year... and are there any ways you could do that?

 
(Oh, and if you'd like to share any of your "2024 good things" by email, I'd LOVE to hear them! I'll wave my virtual pom poms for you!)

A final tip for this time of year... 

The holidays can be a crazy time. Sometimes it can be helpful to distinguish between the things YOU want to do / things that are helpful for you, Vs. things that society pressures you to do.
 
So a reminder that:

• It doesn't matter if you don't get an amazing Santa picture this year;
  
  
• It doesn't matter if your Christmas meal isn't absolutely perfect;
  
  
• It doesn't matter if you spend half the holidays in your pjs and don't get much done;
  
  
• It doesn't matter if you haven't responded to every single email or every single text on your phone. (I’m quickly coming to the conclusion that we’re moving into a world where that’s Just. Not. Possible!) 

Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates, and I will be in touch again in the new year.

Much love!
 
Claire  

❤