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Well, first we need to figure out what they are
I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this. The first, on the professional side
I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year are giving or getting annual performance reviews
You look back over your successes over the year, your "opportunities for growth."
And this serves its purpose,
but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.
So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year
You're giving yourself a performance review, and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally
What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?
So you can write next year's performance review now
And you can do this for your personal life, too. I'm sure many of you, like me, come December,
get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper,
on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter
Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really, going on about how amazing everyone in the household is, or even more scintillating, how busy everyone in the household is
But these letters serve a purpose, which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the course of the year
So this year's kind of done, but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year,
and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care about
What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?
So you can write next year's family holiday letter now
Don't send it
Please, don't send it
But you can write it. And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter,
we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year
And now we need to break these down into doable steps. So maybe you want to write a family history
Well, first, you can read some other family histories, get a sense for the style
Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives, set up appointments to interview them
Or maybe you want to run a 5K
So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan, and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet
And then, this is key, we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater,
by putting them into our schedules first
We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them
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