If you want to make this year better than last year, a good place to start is by taking inventory.Â
What do you have in terms of cases or clients, relationships, and hard assets?Â
Go through your calendar and apps and note how you spent your time. Similarly, go through your financial apps and note how you spent your money.Â
As you examine last year, write down the positive experiences–victories, successful projects, good decisions, areas of growth.
Also write down the negative experiences–mistakes, failed projects, unresolved problems, unrealized plans.Â
What did you do well? What can you improve?
As you do this, consider the people in your life. With whom did you associate most? What value did they bring you? How might your relationships be improved? Is there anyone you need to spend less time with or remove completely from your life?
Finally, go through your notes and write down the opportunities you see for this year. Projects, new habits or relationships, areas for improvement.Â
To create your future, examine your past and learn from it.Â
But don’t dwell on it.Â
Don’t beat yourself up for your mistakes or missed opportunities, but don’t rest on your victories, either.Â
The past is prologue. Use it to write your future.
