I've been thinking a lot about next year this past week or so; It's not unusual at this time of year as December is when I begin work on my business plan for the subsequent year. Just to clarify, I don't necessarily mean a work business plan as that tends to follow the fiscal year; I mean my life business plan, or just my life plan I suppose.
This plan helps formalise my goals for the year, set check-measure points and gets me thinking about the plans required to achieve those goals. It's not a cast-in-rock plan as flexibility is important, however forms a road map for the year for most aspects of it and gives me a greater chance of attaining my goals.
This year has been an unusual one though right?; I've had tough years before of course, but this one...It's come at me from all angles, all at once and has been amazingly unproductive as far as my goals go, those set down in late 2019. A total write off is a good way to describe it I'd say.
Reviewing the current year is the first stage of planning for the next and flicking to the back of the current plan and seeing the list of goals achieved for the year, the done list, is always inspirational and provides much motivation for the future-year...This year though...Let's just say the done list isn't as complete as I would have liked. It's almost untouched. Yes, it's been that bad.
Part of me feels pretty low down about that, I mean all those plans uninitiated and goals unachieved...It's sad, and contradictory to most other years I've had. But yet, I find it motivating also; It's almost like the failure of this year, albeit through no fault of my own, challenges me, slaps me in the face and dares m to do better and so...I've been thinking about goals, what I would like to achieve next year as an individual and as part of my team, that's Faith and I. It's made me determined.
I wonder how I'll be feeling or thinking this time next year when I flick through to the year's done list...Will it be complete? Will the year appear in the image of which I designed and planned it? Will it reflect the effort, ownership and responsibility I've injected over the year towards the attainment of my goals? Or will it mirror this year and be as out of my sphere of influence or control as this year proved to be?
I'm excited about next year. Not because it's going to be better; We simply have no way of knowing if it will. No, I'm excited because I feel energised and ready to get some plans laid. I'm excited because I know what this year delivered; Valuable information that I can use in my preparations for next year and scenarios I can work towards mitigating. I'm excited because I'm excited and because I feel I have the right attitude up here [G-dog taps his head] and the belief in here [G-dog taps his heart].
Come at me, I'll be ready.
How about you? This year is almost over and the next almost upon us...What we do now, how we think about, plan for and strategise, for the year now will dictate how it begins, rolls out and ends...So tell me, how is your year going to unfold?
And as always I'll end with...
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default - Tomorrow isn't promised.
Be well
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