End Well for a Good Beginning
Here’s a list of great year-end questions from Molly Gordon. Put them to use as you reflect on 2009 and make plans for 2010.
Endings are important. As we approach the end of 2009, take time to examine what you have accomplished and to revisit and revise the commitments you've made. Your reflection now will lay a foundation for new possibilities in the New Year.
Here are questions I share with my clients when they approach completion of a cycle or project.
- Think back over your year with regard to your work. What was a high point, a time when you felt most effective and engaged? Describe how you felt and what made this situation possible.
- Without being humble, describe what you value most about yourself with regard to your work.
- Without being humble, describe what you value most about yourself with regard to your personal life.
- With regard to your work, what are your primary sources of pride and joy? What keeps you enthusiastic, renewed, engaged?
- With regard to your personal life, what are your primary sources of pride and joy? What keeps you enthusiastic, renewed, engaged?
- Describe three concrete wishes for the coming year (personal or professional).
[These questions were adapted from similar questions in “The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry” by Sue Annis Hammond.]
