10 Questions to Welcome the Year Ahead

01/10/20 • 23 min

Hello and happy new year!

This episode is dropping at the end of my first week back post-holidays, and I feel like I’m just getting back into the groove. As I said on Instagram earlier this week, give yourself lots of grace and space as you re-enter back to work.

In our last episode, we talked about 10 questions you could ask yourself to close out the year. If you missed it and want to take that reflection time (sidebar, it’s not too late) head here.

Today we’re going to spend time envisioning what 2020 can bring you. If you’re listening to this much later than January 2020, don’t skip this. These questions are valuable at any time of the year.

Once again, I encourage you to give yourself permission to take some time to think these over. Head to a local coffee shop for an hour of uninterrupted time, with your favourite notebook. Don’t rush through it. Taking this time now will help you set up the year ahead in a purposeful, mindful way that can be sustainable.

Trust me, with a lot of personal and client experience behind me, it’s easy to get swept up in the January possibility vibes without really considering if you can make it happen once February hits.

Let’s jump into the questions and walk through each one. I’m going to break these up into two sets of five. The first set focuses more on what you want to do and accomplish this year whereas the second set is about you and how you want to be this year.

Enjoy the episode.

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Hello and happy new year!

In our last episode, we talked about 10 questions you could ask yourself to close out the year. If you missed it and want to take that reflection time (sidebar, it’s not too late) head here.

Trust me, with a lot of personal and client experience behind me, it’s easy to get swept up in the January possibility vibes without really considering if you can make it happen once February hits.

Enjoy the episode.

Join LEAD.Well – a new leadership subscription for women who want to be better, braver leaders.

Break free of your addiction to possibilities (podcast #017)

The key ingredient to have a stand-out year (podcast #018)

Join me on Instagram here or on LinkedIn here

Previous Episode

10 Questions to Close out the Year

As we come to the end of the year, let’s all take a collective moment to pause, look backward and reflect on all the ground we’ve covered and lessons we’ve learned.

It’s easy to want blow past the past and focus only on what’s ahead, but we do so at our own peril. When we take the time and flex our courage muscles to get honest about what’s transpired, we can learn and grow. We can use what we now know (that we didn’t know before) to shape how we proceed and what perspective we hold about the future ahead.

In today’s episode, I walk you through the 10 questions to ask yourself to close out this year. I’ll be asking myself the very same questions and sharing my answers on Instagram and LinkedIn if you want to follow along.

Enjoy the episode!

Next Episode

Why it's so hard to get feedback

Can we talk about how hard it is to get feedback?

Navigating feedback – both the giving and the receiving – makes up a lot of my coaching work. On any given Tuesday or Friday, clients will come to me looking for guidance on how to make sense of feedback they’ve received, or for help around how to give feedback to a team member or client.

In today’s episode, we’re going to focus specifically on receiving feedback, and how to handle all the feelings that come when someone shares their perspective on our work.

It’s tricky, it’s scary and it’s something most of us avoid at all costs.

So let’s bring it out into the light and talk about it.

I’ll start with a story that happened to me a couple of years ago. Trust me, there have been other occasions since, but this particular example encapsulates everything I want to share with you about feedback.

A few years ago, I released a new product into the world called Communicate Like a PRO. It was an idea that had been in my ‘someday’ pile for over a year, and I finally said, “Ok, enough. Create the damn thing already.”

So I did. And then came the feedback...

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