184. Mid-Year Reboot

How To Use a Mid-Year Review To Access Progress and Plan The Rest of The Year

Our friend Karinka gave us the idea to do a mid-year review while we were planning a meeting for our intentional living group. Karinka pointed out that we often look to the future and try to better ourselves, but we don’t usually reflect on how far we have come.

This week, Michelle and I performed a mid-year review using Tim Ferris’ piece entitled “Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead” as a framework.

STEPS FOR CONDUCTING A MID-YEAR REVIEW:

1. On a document/piece of paper, create a positive and negative column

2. Go through your year week by week. Michelle and I used Google Photos, calendars, Apple Notes, etc to help us recall what happened this year. On your documents place positive events in the positive column and negative events in the negative column.

3. Review each column and highlight the top 20% most positive events from the positive column. Then highlight the top 20% most negative events from the negative column.

4. Take note of any patterns you notice in both the positive and negative events.

5. Plan out your next two weeks to incorporate more of the type of events that make you feel good from the positive column and reduce the number of events from the negative column.

6. Use these top 20% positive and negative events to structure your schedule for the rest of the year.

Notes from my mid-year review

My favorite events involved being with people I know AND learning something new. CampFI is a great example of this! If you have taken the Sparketype quiz and are a Maven, this might also be true for you!

My two most negative events involved disappointing/hurting people. An example is my last day of work. I remember feeling guilty for leaving and the heartbreak of goodbye. Though I don’t think I can prevent these types of events, being in tune with my own happiness helps me make the right choices more quickly rather than dragging things out.

Show Notes:

• Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead by Tim Ferris

• CampFI

Community Time:

• Thank you

  Tamara Herring
  for your pledge and for supporting our podcast! Pledges like this help us with podcasting costs like OUR NEW MICROPHONE! It helps us out so much :)

• Thank you Paul and Harris

  HYPRfocus
  for your comments on our episode about uncertainty! Paul and Harris aka PHarris recently did a series about their experience at the Landmark seminar. I have been super curious about Landmark but have wondered if I was joining a cult… again ;) so I found this super interesting.

• Thank you, Lucca and Blaithin for listening to the podcast!

• Thanks to Alex Michael for your comments about the Byron Katie episode!

• Karinka thank you for listening to our net worth episode and for inspiring this episode today!

• Shout-out to David and Ann from Blis Spiritual Co-Op for listening to the podcast! If you are in Charleston and are curious about our Manifestation Group led by Chris, check out the Blis Spiritual Co-Op here!

• Thank you Kendall Brown aka

  Still Small
  for listening to our episode with
  Jordan Grumet
  and our episode on Coast FI. Check out her post here

Want to Join Michelle’s Sabbatical Course?

Michelle and Toby recently had a reunion with the first cohort of their sabbatical course. It is more than just a course, it is a community of people looking to think outside the corporate box. Anyone interested in sabbaticals is welcome to join. You do not have to have been laid off to participate. Click here if you are interested in joining the course!