and i know that maybe not everyone is at the point where they're like yeah i want to like look back
on like what life was like six months ago because it's like damn it's been shitty but i also feel
like we can't really move forward and look into the next year until we let go of this one
something that i like to do at the end of each year is go back through my planner for that year
but this year i attempted a bullet journal and it stops in march it failed mostly because after
march everything kind of fell apart and it's not a super crazy bullet journal i kept it pretty simple
but i spent a lot of time on it and i loved it the reason i like to do that is because often times
there are a lot of small memories that i forget about like on a certain day i went to petsmart
looked at cats made some espresso for myself and then now i have a clear vision of that day like
i remember more things about it even though those are such small things it's like oh yeah i remember
that day like i remember everything and then also looking back at like what were my goals at the
beginning of this year i know i talked about this in another video as well but for example
sort out my agent situation which i did write a script i didn't write necessarily the kind
of script that i thought i was going to write but i've written many scripts
get a new job start making youtube videos have a conversation in french and those are not all
of my goals but those are some of the ones that just stick out to me for example one
of the goals that i did not hit was to read 12 books i didn't really read that much this year
and then i'm going to be doing this as like a journaling exercise but you don't need to journal
it if you want to put it in the notes app of your phone or if you just want to think about it
i'm going to be going through some questions to kind of jump off of to think about kind of where
we started this year what we went through what we overcame and then what do we kind of want to
let go or keep moving forward into the new year so the first question is what did you accomplish
this year and what were some of your small wins of the year and i think this year is definitely
interesting because maybe some things that we thought we were going to accomplish this year
we weren't able to and i feel like that's why it's especially important to recognize like your small
wins i feel like there's so many things that we don't view as accomplishments just because they
don't gain us money or get us like recognition or anything but i think the small wins are way
more important than the big wins a lot of the time and especially when you have a lot of
those opportunities kind of taken away from you to do anything that's like super big or fancy
gotta focus on the small stuff like one of the things that i wrote down is i feel like
i've made a lot more friends online this year and i've been able to kind of get a little bit
closer to friends that i already had online but then i've also met so many people and
have had really wonderful conversations and i feel like i've been able to connect on a deeper level
with a lot more people via the internet and it's people that i never would have met otherwise and
i feel like that's really cool i feel like that's such a big accomplishment which brings me to the
next question which is who is there for you through this year whether that be friends
family a significant other or whether that just be yourself so i think either writing down a list
or just writing down a few lines of gratitude for how you were there for yourself is very important
i'm very thankful because this year the support system in my life has been solid maybe more solid
than i've it's ever been in my life and then kind of going along with that if you want to write a
letter to one or all of the people on your list or if you want to write a letter to yourself thanking
yourself for for being there for you you don't have to send the letter to anyone it can just be
for for you to kind of express gratitude within your own life but my love language is words of
affirmation so the next question i'm going to be journaling on is what did you overcome this year
we all overcame a lot let's give that a moment
and going off of the last one a little bit what did you learn about yourself this year
i feel like it's through those times where we have to overcome something
um that we do learn the most about ourselves what did you learn about your own mental and emotional
health what did you learn about the way you treat others what did you learn about the way that you
navigate relationships there are so many different directions you could put this in so leave it up
to your own interpretation also what did you focus on this year um both personally and professionally
where did you make the most improvement or see growth i feel like this year i stuck up more for
myself professionally i kind of stopped putting up with and i kind of started navigating a path that
was more true to what i wanted versus what was maybe the safest or the easiest thing i'm still
very much navigating that and then personally there was a lot of growth did a lot of therapy did
a lot of self reflection so i feel like that was also a big thing that i wasn't really expecting
going into this year a question that i really like to ask myself is what do i want to leave in this
year and i think it's important that we remember and i think we've had a lot of reminders this year
that a lot of things are not in our control but is there a certain mindset that you want to kind of
hopefully leave behind moving forward what's that [ __ ] that you don't want to take with you
and then to round this off on a bit more of a positive note um take a minute to describe
what your favorite memory was from this year and i have a few so i'll be writing for a bit
and then last but not least i kind of already wrote it down but what brought you joy
this year what made you happy this year for me it was being able to spend so much time with my
family coming back to making videos having that creative outlet brought me a lot of joy this year
playing among us brought me a lot of joy this year avatar the last airbender
brought me so much joy this year there's too many things i can't i can't keep going
but i feel like especially in a year as weird as this one it's kind of strange to go back and
reflect because it feels like it went by super fast but at the same time i feel like it's been
200 years but hopefully you were able to get some ideas on how you can also reflect and journal
your kind of goodbye to this year stay tuned to next week because we will be looking at what
we can kind of change in our present moment to help us prepare to start fresh for the new year
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did i really just do finger guns all right okay bye