Hello there!!
I Hope all of you are
doing great this holiday season! You know what?? I love December! It feels
something magical is about to happen. In Mumbai (India), it just starts getting
colder and we get a break from our “All time hot Summer”!!! Wind just start
feeling amazingly pleasant, sunsets and sunrises become more colourful (and
this continues till February).
Apart from all the
lovely changes in the weather there is more to this month and that is the ‘wait’
for the upcoming New Year!! YouTube posts ‘YouTube Rewind’ and all the
newspapers (& TV programs) start reviewing about Politics, Films, Fashion,
Good and the Bad events, Statistics and lot more that took place in the whole
year. By the end of last week of December we start getting to know what are
exciting things coming up in next year in same areas through social media.
So, I think, this is
the time we should also start Reviewing our own life, because the this is the
best time to do it. Well, sometimes it doesn’t feel good to look back at bad
things that happened, but let’s face it; we should learn from our mistakes,
take a lesson and move on!! If you haven’t moved on from those unpleasant
things… well, get your mind moving from there because it isn’t helping you
anyway, isn’t it??? But we are not here talk about negativity, are we? So let’s
just research little bit about how you can have the best year!
A year back I saw a video, and believe it or
not I was amazed by the results! The video was posted by Robin Sharma On his
YouTube channel, where he takes you through five steps to have the best year of
your life.
The five steps had many
questions to be answered and I am listing some of them here:
1)
What wins do I
need to celebrate from past 12 months? (Celebration)
Where you write
your achievements, success and Memorable moments from past 12 months. This
basically helped me to pat my own back and feel motivated to do even better in
the coming year.
2)
What are three life
lessons I learned from Past 12 months?
Seriously, I had
to take a moment (actually several moments ;) ) and think harder, frame my
learnings and then write it down. When I read the sentence I wrote, I was amazed!
It sounded like some tumblr quote! But really, it came straight out of my heart
and brain. I pat my back again !!
3)
What were your
best practices when you achieved your best results? (Education)
When I wrote
this down, I just came up with the strategies that make me more productive! I
came up with things that get the work done out of me. I came to know what mind set
should I have when I need to achieve something.
4)
What are going
to be the Big 5? (Clarification)
This was like
setting up goals for your year. But Robin Sharma called it “Big” 5! Doesn’t mean
the goals have to be really big like “I want to have million dollar in my bank
account by end of this year” But probably one Essential step towards having those
million dollars.
5)
Creating a plan
to achieve Big 5. (Graduation)
This made me
think what all steps I can take to make Big 5 achievable. I made a master plan
where I decided what i was going to do in every month (as suggested by Robin
Sharma). That gave me a clear vision and an idea what I need to do and how I need
to do.
6)
Visualize. (the
last step)
This step
involves visualizing changes in your life when you achieve the Big 5’s; which
also includes making a vision board and watching it every day to stay focused. (If
you need help regarding the vision board you can visit my previous blog “Make a
Vision Board!”)
And there! I had
my plan ready! I felt so much ready for the next year. Now the question was, will
this work?? Throughout last year, I kept executing my month by month plan ( well not exactly …. But
some things were here and there.) When I
came down to this December; I found out that 99% of the things were done!!
Seriously…. 2015 was the best year of my life! I did the same thing this year too,
but I am making sure I share this experience with as many people as I can!!
Amazing thing about this exercise was, I had
to write it down on the paper. One of my friends told me to always write down
things with my own hand. Writing down brings clarity in mind and when you write
it down, things on the paper and things on your mind sync very well and you come
up with clear ideas/thoughts/plans/conclusions.
To plan your year with Robin Sharma, checkout the
following link:
I would also recommend Alex Ikonn’s video on same
topic which is even more sorted:
If you want help to create a vision board, visit my
last blog:
To visit Robin Sharma’s blog:
Much Love,
Chitra Takle.
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