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A Look Back: Why Celebrating Your Accomplishments Will Help Shape Your New Standards and Goals

As the year comes to a close, you’re probably thinking about New Year’s resolutions. And if it’s not top of your mind, it’s certainly a trending topic on the Internet, so there’s no escaping it. While this is the perfect time of year to set personal and professional standards and goals for the next 12 months, it’s also important to spend time reflecting and celebrating all that you’ve accomplished in the past year.

Every year between Christmas and New Year, I sit down and create a list of the 100 things I have accomplished over the past 12 months. It doesn’t matter the size of the accomplishment or outcome, I write it down. It usually takes me a few days to complete my year-end review and when I am done I am always amazed at how much I have accomplished and how much I have grown. Revisiting your blessings and accomplishments will also help you shine a light on the new standards and goals you wish to set in the coming year. Look at the list you created and think about the things that fired you up. Does your heart still leap when you think about how you felt giving that speech, running that marathon or landing that job? Whatever it was that you accomplished that made your heart jump for joy, do more of that in 2015!

As you set new standards and goals for 2015, I wish you much success in building a better you! Is it really all about hitting those targets? No, it’s really all about the person you become as you work toward those milestones.

Wishing you all the best for 2015. In the New Year may you be a lean, keen mingling machine.

Please feel free to contact me for support and guidance as you continue your journey to reaching your full potential!

Posted by Margaret Page in Everyday Etiquette.