Rear View Mirror

Oh! How I look forward to a brand new year.  It's the optimal time to reflect over the past year.  Stare down all the stupid things you did or said and vow to do better in the New Year. 

As I travel down 2012, I'm visited with an abundance of happy memories.  When I round the curves, I glance at the imperfect moments.  Gheez! The lessons I've learned.  As the landscape thickens, I'm saddened by my most unhappy and often regrettable events.  However, the optimist that I am, these moments are viewed as life's learning and enriching gifts.  

As I step into 2013, I'm anxious to avoid repeat offenders that didn't bode well in 2012.  I'm pausing to assess my spiritual, physical, material, and social prosperity.  It's a time to reset your internal clocks, re-calibrate our settings, and re-chart your course.  

Here are few questions that I found to help boost your internal search:

Reflection questions:

1. What was the single best thing that happened this past year?

2. What was the single most challenging thing that happened?

3. What was an unexpected joy this past year?

4. What was an unexpected obstacle?

5. Pick three words to describe 2012.

6. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe your 2012 (don’t ask them; guess based on how you think your spouse sees you).

7. Pick three words your spouse would use to describe their 2012 (again, without asking).

8. What were the best books you read this year?

9. With whom were your most valuable relationships?

10. What was your biggest personal change from January to December of this past year?

11. In what way(s) did you grow emotionally?

12. In what way(s) did you grow spiritually?

13. In what way(s) did you grow physically?

14. In what way(s) did you grow in your relationships with others?

15. What was the most enjoyable area of managing your home?

16. What was your most challenging area of home management?

17. What was your single biggest time waster in your life this past year?

18. What was the best way you used your time this past year?

19. What was the biggest thing you learned this past year?

20. Create a phrase or statement that describes 2012 for you.

Take a look at some fierce and fabulous moments that rounded out 2012 - swaggerlishous!