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As the year comes to a close, most will look to make resolutions for next year.  I just saw a blog about doing a "Past Year Review" instead.  

Tim Ferris suggest this as a guideline.

"1. Grab a notepad and create two columns: Positive and Negative.

2. Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week.

3. For each week, jot down on the pad any people, or activities or commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns.

4. Once you've gone through the past year, look at your notepad list and ask, "What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks?"

5. Based on the answers, take your "positive" leaders and schedule more of them in the new year. Get them on the calendar now! Book things with friends and prepay for actives/events/commitments that you know work. It's not real until its in the calendar. That's step one.  Step two is to take your "Negative" leaders, put "Not -to -do List" at the top, and put them where you can see them each morning for the first few weeks of 2019. these are the people and things you "know" make you miserable, so don't put them on your calendar out of obligation, guilt or FOMO (fear of missing out) other responses.

Tim Ferris

I so love this idea.

For, when you see the glob of a new year on the horizon it is hard to know how to sculpt it into a 'good' year for you.

But, when you look back on your last year, you can for sure see what worked and what did not, what made you feel alive and what made you feel less than.

And, I believe, if your past year is a blur, it would be a good idea to begin marking up your calendar this year, for next year review.

Be honest and clear, on what you did and how it made you feel.

I will now sit down with last years 356 days and see how I managed my year.

And, perhaps if you know that your year will be reviewed, you will be more aware of what you add each day.