485. 9 Questions Top Performers Ask to Start the Year Strong
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Dec 30, 2024
High achievers often forget to pause and reflect, but meaningful introspection can lead to greater success. Explore nine pivotal questions to assess your accomplishments, challenges, and fears. Discover the importance of setting clear intentions for 2025 and how to document your reflections. Reflect on key relationships and patterns in your life to inform your future direction. Embrace the challenge of defining what you'll achieve this year, as putting your intentions into writing can drive significant progress.
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volunteer_activism ADVICE
Pause and Reflect
High achievers should pause and reflect.
Purposeful reflection leads to more success and satisfaction.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Reflect on Highs and Lows
Reflect on your past year by identifying highs and lows.
Use photos and calendars to jog your memory.
question_answer ANECDOTE
The Importance of Journaling
Jay Papasan shares a story about a missed investment opportunity.
His colleague, Mitch Johnson, kept a journal of investment decisions to improve his decision-making process.
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In 'Managing Oneself,' Peter F. Drucker provides a framework for self-management, emphasizing the importance of understanding one's strengths, weaknesses, and values. The book advises using feedback analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses, understanding how one learns and works with others, and aligning personal values with the organization's values. Drucker stresses that focusing on strengths rather than trying to improve weaknesses is key to achieving excellence. The book also highlights the need to determine where one belongs and how to make the greatest contribution to the organization based on one's strengths, performance style, and values[2][4][5].
If you’re listening to this podcast you’re probably a high achiever. A doer. Someone who is in constant motion. That’s all great, but don’t forget to pause and reflect. Purposeful reflection will lead you to more success and satisfaction.
Here are the nine reflection questions Jay goes over in today’s episode:
What did I accomplish?
What challenges did I face?
Where did I fail?
Who supports me and helps me grow?
What relationships are missing in my life?
When is enough enough?
What do I fear?
What brings meaning to my life?
Who am I becoming and who will I be in the end?
Write down your answers. Identify patterns in your answers. Discuss them with the people closest to you in life and business.
Then use it to create your intention for 2025: This is the year that I finally– fill in the blank.
Jay walks you through, step-by-step, how to get the most out of this reflection and intention activity. Be sure to tune in.
Challenge of the Week:
Set a clear intention for 2025. This will be the year that I finally… you fill in the blank. Put that somewhere where you cannot avoid it. You cannot ignore it. You cannot forget it. Set your intention for 2025. You will be surprised at the end of the year how much progress you have made towards that goal.
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We talk about:
Nine questions to guide your purposeful reflection
One sentence to set your intention for the next year
The importance of keeping your intentional highly visible throughout the year
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