My lessons from 2022. Why should you write them down and reflect?
I like to come up with different ways to improve myself as a person and, at the same time to improve my life.
I hang many papers on my home office walls, so I have things in front of me that are my priorities for the year and life ahead. I write down my goals. I make vision boards. I write down my affirmations and keywords for the year, and so on. It helps me, keeps me on track, or guides me back on the right road when I get lost.
Today I would like to tell you about one particular sheet of paper. It is titled: TOP LESSONS
During the year I write down the lessons I learned. It can be good lessons, where I did something right. Or it can be a lesson where I screwed up and hurt someone without thinking about my words or actions, or I hurt myself…
Then when the year ends I read those lessons and see what I should do differently next year. I reread the lessons often to remind myself of how I should be. How I should act in a better way. Some lessons also give me hope, and confidence, and put a smile on my face.
Few examples of the lessons from 2022.
- Communication is the key to a strong, healthy, long-lasting romantic relationship. the more we can communicate, the better we can understand each other. (I was not very good at expressing my feelings as I had many fears, if I did it, the person will leave — the trauma from past relationships. So in 2022, I was learning to communicate openly.)
- Everything passes. Even the toughest days we think will never pass. (I had some hard days and weeks. It seemed they would never end, but they did. They always do. So with this lesson, I want to remind myself on hard days, that this will too shall pass. As it always does. All of my 36 years of life.)
- Keep it to yourself. Nobody needs to know everything. (I tend to overshare and then I regret it. So I am learning to ask myself if I should be saying it and if yes, why?)
In total, I wrote 51 lessons in 2022. I reread them once per week and keep them in mind in different situations, so as not to repeat the same mistakes.
Will you try it?
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