Hello Friend,
This is the time of year when it’s really important to look back on the previous year and take time to capture the most important lessons from your experience in this thing we call life. And I have a tool, a really powerful series of questions I’m providing for you to download at the end of this message but before I get to that, let me touch on the series of posts I created last week.
Last week’s series of posts centered around the topic of gratitude. My plan was not to inundate you with more things to read but to encourage you to focus on something that our world desperately needs so much more of. Few things can have a greater impact on building a life that leaves a legacy than becoming a positive and grateful human being.
Gratitude is one of those core disciplines that build a legacy life as you practice it. Eckhart Tolle says it well -- "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." If you want your life overflowing onto others abundantly, gratitude will become your close friend.
Last week I offered you seven steps to begin a daily gratitude practice, and I hope you've started to develop your unique approach. One way to ensure this practice continues is to seek out things to be grateful for continually. The end of the calendar year provides a unique opportunity to do so -- as it's a literal turn of the page from one year to the next.
Before thinking about all of the possibilities that 2021 will bring, it's helpful to reflect on (with gratitude) the unique opportunities that 2020 has afforded. The year 2020 will go down in history as a turning point and shift from our established norms. Life changed, businesses adjusted, companies pivoted, and the world will look differently from here on out.
Some of these shifts and pivots brought welcome changes, both spurring innovation and creating unanticipated opportunities. Some have hurt and created a sense of loss for what was and may never be again.
Regardless, we can welcome each pivot and shift with gratitude as lessons rich in insight and value. Looking back has tremendous value before looking ahead to the future.
To help you glean from 2020 all that you can -- and position you to begin thinking about 2021 with clarity, I want to provide you with a set of reflection questions to spur on your best thinking.
You can download this free of charge by clicking the button below.
I'll leave you with one more quote:
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~Melody Beattie
Happy reflecting!
