Are we nearly there yet?!!!

Time waits for nobody and nothing! When we’re facing a brand new set of 12 months, that year can feel like a sizable period.  When we’re looking back, those same units of time can somehow seem reduced or compressed!

It’s a fact that our own busyness can actually disempower us. Perpetual pressure can distort reality and skew the accuracy of perspective. It can also significantly restrict creativity!

Most of us can and do get swept along by crazy paces and frenzied activity without ever pausing for breath or taking stock of where we’re at, how we’re doing, where we’re going, what we want to do next. Is what we’re actually doing what we really should be doing?

How often do we each spend a bit of time focusing on ourselves, taking stock of what we’ve achieved, what we’ve enjoyed, what we are keen not to repeat, what we want to remember and what we want to hone as valuable resources for fresh endeavours?

If you were penning a stand-up routine for yourself, headlining ‘2012 Gains’, what would you include? What would you leave out and for what reasons? What are the stand-out moments? How have you changed? What are your priorities? What are your intentions? What are you planning to do next?

Rather than an annual end of year review, why not reap the wisdom and benefits of your experiences on a regular and more frequent basis?

There are certain key questions that we ought to take the time and make the effort to answer for ourselves. The questions could be similar or different across a group of people. What’s important is that they are meaningful and insightful on a personal level.

I’m encouraging you to get serious about you, to navigate with greater self-awareness and curiosity, to hit the pause button and step down from the treadmill that you may be stuck on, and then consciously to survey the landscape to appreciate where you’ve been, what you’ve seen, who you have met, where you are right now, and where you’re heading next!

Exciting, isn’t it?!!!