Hey Dan here and in this video you're going to learn something that every ENFP
should be doing this month to prepare for an amazing 2019 now I have to give
credit where credit is due to Meg one of my free freelancer members for inspiring
this video with something she shared on our last call and what we're gonna do
today is look at an exercise that you can do now maybe takes 20 minutes half
an hour and it will set you up to have a much much better 2019 and what it is is
to take some time and essentially go through an inventory of what you spend
time on during this last year where you invested your time maybe your money your
resources your energy and what actually got your results what things worked out
you know as enfps we love to look to the future we love creating new things and
being forward oriented and generally on this channel I will encourage you to do
that but there's also some benefit to looking back and being strategic every
soft and saying okay so last year I said I was going to do a B and C I was gonna
try something different and I was gonna become really organized and really you
know systemize in how I operate let's say and if you look back on the year and
that didn't really work out maybe that's a good thing to take note of maybe it's
worth noticing that pattern realizing hey I tried this I invested a lot of
time and energy and nothing really changed and so moving forward you don't
try to repeat the same thing you know personally if I look at some of my goals
list you know looking forward on the years I've had some of the same things
on my list for years and you know the example I actually use on or call where
Meg brought this up was yoga I have had do yoga become more flexible on my to-do
list for probably 10 years and I've maybe been to two dozen yoga classes and
all that time so how stupid am I being by continuing to waste mental energy
thinking I should be doing yoga maybe feeling a bit guilty about it and you
know wasting energy I could be putting somewhere else thinking about
this thing that clearly I'm never going to do so what could I do differently
well there's really two options is I can either decide hey clearly yoga it should
not be on my list it doesn't happen nothing's changed so why am i continuing
to try to take this on or option two if I decide you know what yoga is really
important and it is something I really want to be doing then I need to
reevaluate how I've been approaching it and maybe come up with some massive plan
that will make it happen you know some big public commitment or invest a bunch
of money into something or do something different than I have for all the years
in the past where clearly nothing has been working out for it but if I just
write down again all right 2019 I'd I'd like to do more yoga why would I ever
think that that would happen when it hasn't work last year and it hasn't
worked the year before so here's what I'd like you to do take a few minutes
today and just go over what you wanted to do this year what were your plans how
did you invest your time now if you've been planning if last year you wrote
down what you wanted to do in 2018 amazing if you keep some kind of a
journal where you prioritize your goals for the week things like that awesome go
back to those go through them and look at what has really worked for you and
what hasn't and within those even take an inventory of how long you spent like
maybe something did work out your goal was to lose 10 pounds and you did lose
10 pounds but just take an assessment like how many hours did that take
roughly or how much money did you invest and pay attention to those things
because in the next week or so I'm gonna do a few other videos and we're going to
look at other things you can be doing to prepare for the upcoming year and to
make it one of if not the best year ever for you and part of that all working
really well is laying this foundation now looking back and looking at what has
worked for you on what hasn't worked for you so you can stop repeating maybe some
of the same mistakes and zero in on the things that
work really well so this may sound like the exercise is meant to be negative
like this didn't work and this didn't work there's a bit of that in it but
another part of it is really highlighting what did work like hey I
spent five hours here and it really paid off for me or this one project I did had
huge rewards so why don't I do three projects like that next year and so yes
you are looking at the things that didn't work that were maybe a bit of a
waste of time or energy and not repeating those but you also want to
look at the things that worked really well and so you can do more of those in
2019 and here's the good news is probably the things that worked really
well for you are things that you enjoyed and things that you probably want an
excuse to do more of so think of this exercise as a chance to basically do
more of the things you love doing and stop feeling guilty for not doing the
things that just don't seem to work out for you and really giving yourself that
permission to focus on your strengths and focus what you love doing in the
coming year I hope you found this video helpful if you haven't yet to subscribe
to the channel and hit that Bell as I said I'll have another video coming up
in a couple of days on Sunday and one more after that all based around helping
make 2019 the best year ever for you so stay tuned for those videos catch you in
them soon ciao
you