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Health & Fitness

Reflect and Then Project a Healthy 2014

Every year, at just about this time, I like to evaluate my past year and start to formulate some healthy goals and ideas for the New Year ahead. For starters, I find it helpful to look at three broad life categories. I review and evaluate my professional work, state of my physical and mental health and personal and professional relationships.

These three broad categories cover a multitude of other smaller life topics but are general enough and allow me to overview my past year while providing a basis to set new goals for the coming one.

Next, I congratulate myself on a job well done on the areas of my life that have improved in a healthy and productive way. I review the previous goals I set last December and see how close I came to achieving them. I give thanks for my accomplishments and take time to appreciate what I have  learned about myself and the world and people around me.

Then I look at those areas that did not go as planned and I reflect on the direction they took and try to understand how I could have achieved a different outcome. (And will achieve a different outcome in 2014 if they are still important).

I find the review and evaluation process important to my overall health, well-being and direction for the New Year. Taking this opportunity to stop, reflect and then project, I have a much clearer picture of where I want to go and how I am going to get there.

You too can take the time to reflect and then project the kind of New Year you would like for 2014. All it takes is some quiet time, a piece of paper and pencil and a willingness to review and reflect.

Merry Christmas! and a Healthy and Happy 2014.




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