End of Year Reflection Session
⚡Intention: to take pride in our accomplishments this year, take inventory of what habits, behaviors, emotions, and thoughts we wish to take into the new year and what we want to leave behind.
📏Rules: each question is to be WRITTEN down, yes cave person style. You can do this all in one yeehaw, or break it into sections. Personally, I designed this for myself to build momentum and vulnerability as you head into section 3.
Section 1: Questions 1-8, you will have 1 minute per question. (8 minutes total)
Section 2: Questions 9-20, you will have 2 minutes per question. ( 22 minutes total)
Section 3: Questions 21- 25, you will have 4 minutes per question. (20 minutes total)
🎉Bonus: get yourself a sitter for the kids, a sports game or drama TV for the partner, and hit your favorite coffee shop for full effect.
🧒Parenting Rules: you’re doing your best if you have to do this in crayon on the toilet, live your best life and to maintain structure simply cut the time in half for the exercises.
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Section 1: (1 minute)
What would the title and subtitle be if you were writing a book based on this year alone?
What were the three big events that happened this year? Do you think they were good or bad? (no need to explain)
What was the hard lesson you HAD to learn this year?
Who made the most significant impact on your life this year?
What habit changed your life the most?
What held you back the most?
When was a time you wished you could go back to? Why?
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Section 2: (2 minutes)
What was something you did this year that you’re proud of?
When was a time that you were entirely in the present moment? What did it feel like?
What moment can you look back and say you did the hard thing when the easy thing was available? How did it change you?
Who in your life did you say goodbye to this year? Do you miss them? What was your favorite memory of them?
When did you feel most disconnected this year?
What was the most challenging part of this year?
What was your favorite moment of this year?
What was your biggest failure? What did you learn?
What was your most significant success? What did you learn?
What was a moment that you looked at yourself and knew you could change, then did? Even if it was short-term.
If you had a primary thought that lived on a loop, what was it? Does it still serve you to think it, feel it?
What’s a boundary with a person, place, thing, or idea that you KNOW you need but don’t want to set? What is it? How can you implement it?
What was a moment you were broken but still loved yourself?
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Section 3: (4 minutes)
What did you learn to love about yourself this year? How did you do it?
What did you struggle with this year? How do you love the struggle? If you loved the battle, what would that look like?
If you could go back to January and tell yourself something that would alter your life for this entire year, what would it be? Why would it change your life?
What have you refused to own about yourself that you might feel ashamed to talk about? Feel about? How can you hold that right now at this moment? What would it feel like to have that part of you fully witnessed and still know YOU ARE WORTHY OF LOVE?
Who were you this year? Truly to your soul, who did you show up as this year? Are you proud of them? Support them? Hide them? Why?
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Bonus:
1.) Did you give it your all this year? When and how? For the immediate no that came into your head and for the yes you won’t admit.
2.) Take another 10 minutes to create a short story reflection of you moving through this year as if you were the hero of it. (this part is my favorite)