Do you believe it? We’re in the last week of 2023. Amazing. Hopefully, you’re all off this week, being with friends, being with family, eating fine food, relaxing, recharging, being grateful for what you have in life, and reflecting after hopefully having a successful year behind you. With this time in the holidays, I always like to take time off, and look back and look forward. And for anyone who’s interested, I have a little exercise, if you’re up for it, that I offer every holiday.
It’s just a template for you to take some time to get clear on what you accomplished in 2023 and get clear on what you want to create in 2024. A recapping of your year, all the good things you’ve done, how you’ve showed up, your personal goals, your professional goals, your bucket list, all those cool awesome things you have yet to do in your life that you’d like to do.
You can create your reverse bucket list. What’s that, you ask? It’s all the cool stuff you’ve already done. Let me tell you, when you get clear on all the cool stuff you have done in your life in your reverse bucket list, you sit back and realize, I lived a pretty darn good life. If God took me right now, I think I’d be pretty satisfied. However, there’s still more I want to do.
You can write the rewards you celebrate when you accomplish your goals, getting clear on exactly what those rewards are going to be, so it puts a little carrot on the stick and gets you excited. Charles Dickerson did that classic Christmas Carol of where Scrooge went back in his life. And through those three ghosts, he looked at his past, he looked at his present, he looked at his future. Didn’t necessarily like the past, didn’t necessarily like the present. He changed and created a much better future. And the only way to do that is really to get clear on all of it.
I hope you take me up on my offer to partake in this exercise and really get clear on how you’ve shown up, how you need to show up, and how you commit to show up in 2024. As far as I’m concerned, 2023 was my best year yet, and hopefully, it was the same for you. However, 2024 is going to be that much better. Get clear on what you want. Take the time to relax. Enjoy the holidays, enjoy your family, enjoy the food. Let’s make 2024 a great year. But the only way to do that, let’s get clear on what it looks like before it begins.
COACH MICHAEL DILL is an Award-Winning Certified Business Coach, global speaker, and published author. He is a proud Action Coach Franchise partner as well as the President of Power & Ice Wealth Creation a strategic leadership company that works with business owners, leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs to both develop a systematized and structured organization while accelerating their mindset, efficiencies, and effectiveness to grow both personally and professionally to achieve extraordinary results. He brings more than 40 years of business and entrepreneurial experience in his leadership, team training, and mentoring practice. Businesscoachmichaeldill.com