At the finish of each year, and on their birthdays, many all the people take time to reflect and look ahead. If youre one of these everybody, or if you would like to initial getting the benefits from a little self reflection, then I have some effective questions for you.

These questions might be looked at once a year, once a month or whenever youre looking for some direction in your life. I invite you to take a sizeably successful hard look at your life more than once a year. You will get a lot more out of your life if youre more conscious about what youre creating.

Some of the questions werent developed by me and many are from a terrific book called "Your Best Year Yet: Ten Questions for Making the Next Twelve Months Your Most Successfull Ever" by Jinny S. Ditzler. I highly recommend it if you want to go a little deeper.

These questions have been designed to help you to take measure to complete the year and to formulate the new year from a clean slate. By working on the following questions you will complete this year powerfully so you might have the room to generate a new "me" for the new year.

Looking at this past year:

1. What do I want to be acknowledged for?

2. What did I accomplish?

3. What did I want to accomplish that I did not accomplish? (Do I still want to do this?)

4. What did I say I would do that I didnt do? (Do I still want to do this?)

5. Who do I need to be in communication with?

6. What we are my biggest disappointments?

7. What did I learn? - List 3 lessons which will generate the most difference if you remember them this year?
(See them as guidelines for next year).

Changing patterns:

1. How do you limit yourself and how can you transform these actions to be powerful?

2. What do you say to yourself to explain your failures? (These false beliefs are your limiting paradigm).

3. List your limiting paradigm.

4. List your new paradigm which must be personal, positive, present tense, powerfully and simply stated, pointing to an exciting future.

5. Read your new paradigm out loud when you awake and before going to sleep each day. Teach your subconscious that this is your paradigm.

Looking ahead:

1. What are your personal values? What is most import to you in your life? What drives you?

2. What roles do you play in your life? (List 8 or more). Then list new ones you want to include into your life in the next year. Rate each role on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most important.

3. Where is your life out of balance? If you could put one problem behind you, once and for all, what would it be?

4. Which role is your major focus for next year? ( In what role do you want a breakthrough performance? If you could put a check mark by one of these roles at the end of next year showing, showing that you felt nice about how you are playing that role, which one would it be?)

5. What are your goals for each role?

The way that this works is that for at least a week or two you inquire of yourself the above questions. I write them down and do it in writing several different times. Then after doing that for all of the above questions you answer one final question:

What do I want to accomplish and who do I want to be in the coming year?

Remember the old quote, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Give yourself the gift of self reflection that will help you to create the life you really want this year. It only takes per sixty minutes or two. Dont you deserve better than settling for whatever shows up when fail to plan