{"id":3179,"date":"2024-01-04T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve done plenty of New Year&#8217;s resolutions in the past, but this year I am stepping into new territory and doing some year end review first.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I have never done it intentionally, the value of reflecting on the year that has just passed now strikes me as being quite obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like Sahil Bloom&#8217;s ideas for a &#8220;Personal Annual Review&#8221;. It includes the following 7 questions:<\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>What did I change my mind on this year?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What created energy this year?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What drained energy this year?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Who were the boat anchors in my life? (These are people who &#8220;hold you back from your potential&#8221;.)<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What did I not do because of fear?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What were my greatest hits and worst misses this year?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What did I learn this year?<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It feels like some time spent meditating on these questions would provide an excellent foundation for developing goals and dreams for 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you agree?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in a little more background and a nicely formatted document in which to do your own reflecting on 2023, you can download Bloom&#8217;s template at <a href=\"http:\/\/sahilbloom.com\/annual-review\"><b>sahilbloom.com\/annual-review<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done plenty of New Year&#8217;s resolutions in the past, but this year I am stepping into new territory and doing some year end review first. Although I have never done it intentionally, the value of reflecting on the year that has just passed now strikes me as being quite obvious. I like Sahil Bloom&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}