Your vision for 2015 – Take stock of your year

By Jerry Bellune

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Here’s a great remedy for the year-end blues:

On paper, draw a horizontal line across the middle.

Then a vertical line down the middle.

The top left quadrant is 2014’s 1st quarter.

The top right quadrant is the 2nd quarter.

The bottom left is the 3rd and bottom right the 4th.

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Now get out your planner or appointment book.

It can be digital or on paper. Whatever you use.

Include your journal if you keep one.

I do and it’s filled with epiphanies and insights.

The ancient Greek teacher Socrates had it right:

“The unexamined life isn’t worth living,” he said.

Fortunately he had Plato around to jot that down.

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Go through the year’s first three months.

What significant projects did you finish?

These can relate directly to your business.

They also should relate to family and friends.

Relate to charities, church and community projects.

Relate to self-study and self-improvement.

To your mental, physical and spiritual growth.

To worthwhile books you read or movies you saw. 

The list can and should be fairly long.

Jot all those down in the top left quadrant.

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Now go through the rest of the year.

Take it quarter by quarter. Don’t hurry.

Think about all you accomplished and the results.

Note them quarter by quarter in their quadrant.

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Now list the projects started and abandoned.

Which is these do you need to complete?

Which did experience show needed to be abandoned.

It wouldn’t work or was otherwise impractical.

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Do you see the picture that’s beginning to emerge?

You were far more productive than you imagined.

This is not a pat-yourself-on-the-back exercise.

It’s OK to do that, too. It will lift your spirits

More important, it’s the platform for your 2015 plan.

We’ll talk about that next week.

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