As I end the year and begin a new one, it’s important for me to take some time to assess my attitudes, actions and achievements, and evaluate my experiences. Investing the time in doing this, will better enable me to inculcate the lessons learned in 2009 and improve my efforts at making a life in 2010. Would you like to join me? I guarantee that the returns will be worth the investment of time and energy.

As I shared in an earlier blog, we are all writing history in someone’s life and in the area of the world where we live and work. The question is: “what kind of history are we writing”? When we fail to spend time in evaluating and learning from our life experiences, history tends to repeat itself … over and over and over again. So, pull up a chair, take out a pen and journal, and take some time to list and review the history that YOU have written through your life in 2009 – ALL of it, the good, the bad and the ugly. This is your first exercise in 2010, and it can give you great joy or it can be emotionally painful. It is extremely valuable as it reminds us of the consequences of all our behavior. It can become a strong motivation for us in the future to think before we speak and act, knowing that we are about to write something that may be impossible to UNWRITE AND MAKE RIGHT. I have had to personally learn the painful lesson that it is impossible to right some wrongs and to un-write the consequences that may last a life-time.

As you take the time to reflect upon your life, take as much time as you need to write out all the major history that you have written in 2009. Some of the categories won’t apply to you, but fill in the ones that do. Now take some time to list and evaluate all your major:

-       Accomplishments

-       Failures

-       Relationships Developed

-       Relationships Broken

-       People you helped

-       People you hurt

-       Things you built or created

-       All that you earned or gained

-       All that you lost

-       Missed Opportunities

-       Major lessons learned

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