As the ‘2020 Lemons’ series draws to a close, it’s Maria and Michelle’s turn to reflect back upon the year that was, and share both the positive and negative aspects of their own experiences. In the process, they also provide a highly effective list of questions that you can use to engage in your own reflection on the past year in an effort to prepare and perform even better in this new year.
They begin with some fun questions to get the ball rolling and then proceed with others that delve further into the successes and challenges that the year presented, the reasons behind them, feelings about them, and suggestions to manage them further. They offer deeply personal examples from their own lives along the way to help encourage you to do the same when you reflect on the same questions, and to demonstrate that lessons can be found in even the greatest of difficulties. As the culmination of this series, answering these thought provoking questions will undoubtedly assist you in doing the all-important work of taking the time to reflect upon the past so that you can show up even stronger in the present and the future. It’s an exercise that receives our hosts’ enthusiastic stamp of approval, and one that they know will offer you greater clarity, vision, and direction for this coming year and beyond.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
· What’s your favorite movie that you watched last year?
· What’s your favorite song for the year?
· What was your biggest laugh in 2020?
· What was the best compliment you received in the entire year?
· What was your greatest moment of thanks?
· What are 3 goals that you achieved last year?
· How did you accomplish those goals?
· How did it make you feel to accomplish those goals?
· What major life change from 2020 are you most proud of?
· What is something difficult that you overcame in 2020?
· What was the source of your greatest toxicity and how could you influence, change or live with it?
· Where is a place that you felt you had incredible impact?
· Is there any particular person that you had a positive impact on?
· How do you up your level of impact for this year?
· What 3 people had the most impact on you? How do you pay it forward?
· What are 3 things that you wanted to accomplish but didn’t? How did this make you feel?
· What caused you to not accomplish these things? How do you feel about that?
· Is there anything you wish you had done different or you could have done better? Why?
Quotes:
“I learned that anger is one of my feelings.”
“There were several moments throughout 2020 where I just stopped and I was like, ‘Thank goodness I’m alive’.”
“I am super, super thankful to have been able to spend some quality time with them.”
“I define who I am.”
“I truly had moments of clarity and self-reflection undisrupted.”
“Habit stacking makes it easy to start stuff.”
“When you can start to associate positive feelings to things that you are accomplishing, you are less likely to stop doing them.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when creating them.”
“That relationship is the pinnacle of toxicity.”
“You had ‘battered wife syndrome’.”
“Your stance means everything.”
“Silence is an action that creates a reaction.”
“I am thrilled at how many people continue to reach out to me, ask for advice, seek my feedback.”
“If you push an activity for more than 2-3 days, you might as well cross that shit off because it clearly doesn’t mean anything to you.”
“A moment of reflection is a moment of clarity for you.”
“Do a better you.”
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