A Year In Review With Amanda Boleyn

Hello beautiful friends!

I can’t believe this is the final episode of 2019. It is super fun to look back at the year and acknowledge all the growth and changes that have been made.

I love doing a year-end reflection. While setting new goals is super fun, it is super important to also reflect on the previous year. Because in order to figure out where you want to go and HOW you’re going to get there, you first need to figure out where you’re at and where you’ve come from.

Not doing this step in the process can be costly.

Without taking time to reflect on the past year, you could find yourself thinking you’re in Austin Texas, planning on getting to LA but never actually getting there because you don’t accurately know where you’re at.

Today, I want to share some things with you to help reflect on your 2019:

I’m going to introduce you to a tool called the Wheel of Life
Questions to ask yourself about your 2019
Where your emotional home was
Decide your 2020 wheel and emotional home

A tool that has been helpful to create goals and intentions has been “The Wheel of Life” tool, where it focuses on 8 areas:

Health
Spirituality
Life Planning/Money
Relationships
Space
Development
Social/Recreation
Professional Life

Health:

Physical Fitness
Nutrition
Stress Reduction
Medicine & Healing
Mind-Body Wellness
Healthy Living

Spirituality:

Morals and Ethics
Spiritual Accountability
Life purposes
Stewardship
Relationship with God/Self

Life Planning/Money:

Financial Planning
Time Management
Goal Setting
Life Transitions
Monitoring the Other Spokes

Relationships:

Parents
Children
Extended Relatives
Spouse
Intimacy/Sex
Parenting

Space:

Physical surroundings, your house, your clothes, your car.

Social/Recreation

Arts & Music
Hobbies
Travel
Rest & Leisure
Sports & Hobbies
Vacation
Fun
Friends
Community
The Environment

Development:

Education
Reading
Motivations
Values & Morals
Self-Esteem
Recovery

Professional Life:

Career Planning
Workplace Relationships
Business Skills
Entrepreneurship
Business

There will be seasons in your life when your wheel is somewhat unbalanced, and that is okay. Sometimes, the best results are produced when things are unbalanced. For example, if you are focused on Life Planning, specifically saving for let’s say a downpayment for a house, you may not big on recreation; vacations, hobbies because you’re deciding to focus on saving rather than spending.

Another example, if you’re in the beginning stages of building your business, your wheel may be heavier on the work and less on other areas of the wheel.

The goal is to plan where you want to be intentional and spend time vs being reactive to where you’re spending your time.

Mine 2019:

Health
- Maintained the same weight
- 2% less body fat
- Workout 4-6X per week

Spirituality/Contribution

Life Planning/Money
- Started payroll this year
- Saved enough money to buy our first rental property (currently under contract and close in March 2020)

Relationships
- A stronger relationship with my husband than ever before
- Strengthen relationships with close family members

Space
- Moved into my dream apartment in March this year
- Purchased new furniture for the new space
- Continue to edit, declutter, and maintain a simple space
- Designated home office
Development
- Attended Business Mastery and Date with Destiny
- Invested in an online program
- Have a business and life coach
- Get fully dressed at least 3X per workweek (out of 5 days)

Social/Recreation
- Summer volleyball league
- Indoor soccer
- Traveled to Costa Rica, Barcelona, Italy, Ashville
Professional Life
- Increased business revenue by 30%
- Hosted a successful 3 day She did it Her Way Summit
- Created 3 new courses:
  - Website Your Way
  - Podcast Your Way
  - Scale Your Way
- Launched 52 new podcast episodes
- Hosted 2 rounds of Confusion to Clarity group coaching program

There are many things about each category that I could choose to look at and focus on what didn’t happen, what goals I didn’t reach, what went wrong, but I’m choosing to focus on the good. What worked well, and most of all, what I’m most proud of.

Based on the results in each of the 8 areas, I can now confidently and strategically decide the direction of my life for 2020 and where I want to focus my time and energy to produce the results I want, the emotions I want to feel.

When you reflect, I want you to focus on a few different things:

What worked well, what were the positives, what are you most proud of
What were some key milestones, the results you produced?
How did you emotionally feel throughout the year? Where was your emotional home? Our thoughts create our emotions, our emotions create our actions and our actions create our results. Were you feeling inspired, frustrated, overwhelmed?

Because your emotions are caused by your thoughts, all you need to do is decide ahead of time how you want to feel and identify the thought that helps you create that emotion.