Update: The timing for my Channel News Asia segment next Tuesday has been fixed! It’ll be 8:15pm-9:15pm for the live feed on the web and 8:30-9pm for those watching on TV. Read for my announcement post for details.

As I write this, it’s the last week of Dec ’10. It’s now the time of the year where we look back, reflect on how the year has gone by, and get ready for the next year ahead.

In today’s post, I’ll be sharing my reflections for this year, and my key goals moving forward. If you haven’t done your year end reflections yet, read my previous post on doing your year end review. Feel free to share your review in the comments area!

Year in Review: 2010

Looking back this year, there have been many things that I’m very proud of. I’m just going to list down 8 key highlights:

1. Grew Personal Excellence to over 20,000 subscribers!

If there’s one thing I’m really proud of, it’s having single-handedly grown Personal Excellence from nothing to over 20,000 subscribers today. All this happened in the span of just 2 years, with 90% of the growth happening only in the past 8 months! To me, reaching 10k is the first sign that we’ve hit critical mass, and 20k even more so.

Previously I was not fully focused on the blog’s growth, partly because I was understanding the online landscape, and also because I was working on other projects. During April, I finally gave Personal Excellence my full focus (in addition to coaching and workshops), and subsequently the efforts paid off. I honestly can say that every subscriber has been painstakingly gained through every inch of hard work, and I’m really excited about what’s coming next.

(For those of you who have blogs, I do 1-1 blog coaching. It’s where I share my best knowledge from growing Personal Excellence in the past 2 years, so you can dramatically cut down your learning curve and jump-start your blog’s growth.)

2. Featured on international media as well as other media outlets.

In 2009 I received over 10 media coverages, and it was something I was extremely grateful for. This year, I continue to receive regular media coverage, including Simply Her, Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, and CNN International. The biggest is definitely CNN, since it’s the one of the largest broadcasters in the world, as well as my feature in Simply Her in the July issue, which came with a photoshoot and double page write-up. And next Tuesday, I’ll be live on Channel News Asia (Asia’s largest news broadcaster), which will mark the first time I’m on national TV. I’m very excited about it.

I suspect there are other publications that have featured Personal Excellence that I’m not aware of – I get occasional comments from readers that they saw my site on Guardian (UK), some Indian papers, Huffington Post (US), etc, but I’m not able to get my hands on the original articles. At this point it seems like the media requests have become a normality, and I’m very grateful for the opportunities each time.

The media coverage is  very important for the growth of PE, because it helps me reach out to more people with my work. Also, it’s an affirmation that I’m now moving in the right direction. That’s why I’m extremely excited whenever I’m contacted by a journalist. As I wrote in this post in 2009, I’ve no interest in the supposed recognition, “fame” or “popularity” that comes from being on the media.

(For those who are starting out and are interested to be featured in the media, you can read my 2009 guest post at Problogger:  How To Get Featured By the Press. I wrote it specific for blogs, though the principles I share can be related to any context.)

3. Invited to regional conference to speak on blogging/social media.

A couple of months ago in October, I was invited to Hong Kong to speak on how to create a top blog. I’ve already been regularly invited to speak in local organizations since I started in 2009, so I saw a regional invitation as the next mark to strive for. Needless to say, I was exuberant when the invitation came this year in October. While I was in Hong Kong, I additionally invited to speak in a few MNCs on social media and building an online presence, so I was extremely excited.There’s also something coming up early next year, though it’s not confirmed at this moment so I’m parking that aside first.

4. Released Personal Excellence Book (July).

I’ve been meaning to release an ebook and I just had to make the first one Personal Excellence Book. I personally designed the book and did the layout and I really love how it turned out. To date it has sold over 300 copies, and increasing with each day. I’m extremely proud of this book – I see it as like the timeless, collector’s item for all readers of PE, and those who have bought it can attest to it. It represents the 2 years of excellence at PE, containing over 130 of the best articles on the blog, including 10 bonus never seen before articles. I plan to update the book annually with the best classics at the site.

5. Wrote and released 30DLBL Program (Nov).

I have extremely strong ownership over my work because I invest so much of my time, energy and love into them, and The 30DLBL Book is no different. Like PEBook, I designed the cover and wrote all the content. It’s really like my baby. I never release anything unless I’m absolutely sure of the value it can deliver, and 30DLBL is one program that I can vouch for its value. I love that it’s versatile – you can do it in your own time and do it together with the 30DLBL community during the live runs (typically June and Dec each year). In the end, the whole 30DLBL program, from the guidebook, the workbook,to the 30DLBL runs, is just the way I want it to be.  With over 200 copies in less than 2 weeks of launch and the powerful feedback from the participants, it has affirmed the value of this program.

6. Launched highly successful 30DLBL Challenge (Sep).

With over 1,200 participants that signed up, this makes this the most successful personal development initiative online, ever.The 30DLBL is so successful that lately I’m seeing other personal development sites come up with their 30/31 day challenges too. I think it’s great that others are being inspired to do the same for their communities.

7. Turned my business into a non-location bound business

(i.e. able to operate my business anywhere).

In 2009, I had to be in Singapore due to my local clients and my workshops/speeches. I wanted to be location free, so this year I transitioned my 1-1 coaching to online video conferencing. Today, all my 1-1 coaching is done via Skype or phone. With the exception of my workshops which have to be done in person (not a major problem since it’s just 1-2 times/month), I can now literally work anywhere around the world (as long as there’s an internet connection). I first did this when I was in HK in Oct and it went perfect. I’ve yet to test this extensively and I’m looking forward to do so next year.

8. Designed and successfully ran 17 workshops/speeches.

Unlike full-time trainers who train for a living, I see training/speaking as one aspect of my work, among blogging, writing and coaching. Where I’m invited to train/speak I do so, but otherwise I don’t actively solicit for training engagements. I’m happy to have run 17 workshops/speeches this year, with many of them getting strongly rated testimonials from participants. All my trainings are done under my training business (The School of Personal Excellence).

Deep Gratitude To All Of You

I think beyond quantitative achievements, the biggest thing I’m proud of this year is being able to reach out to even more people and on a more intense level. Just seeing, hearing of the changes in your lives, whether you’re a reader, coachee or workshop participant, is my fuel to do what I do. The kind of feedback I’ve received are astounding, and humbling to say the least.

In one example, I knew of a reader who was terminally ill, and rather than wait to die, he came up with his bucket list (inspired by my bucket list article) and took action to bring all the items on his list to life, accompanied by his partner. Earlier, I received a comment from a reader who was planning to end his life, but somehow didn’t after he came across Personal Excellence on Google. I think things like this are the highest difference I can ever strive to make in anyone’s life, and I don’t think I’d ever be able to make do any of this in my previous career.

On a blog level, 30DLBL was an eye opening experience, not just for participants, but for myself as well. It has allowed me to connect with all of you on an individual level in a way that wasn’t there before. It’s one thing to be writing articles and knowing there are 20k people reading the articles; it’s a totally different thing to personally know the people reading and witness their lives transform in the process. I’m very proud to have be acquainted with all of you from the Sep 30DLBL and Dec 30DLBL – you guys know who you are. This experience really humbled me, and it helped me to realize that this intimate connection is what I want to achieve with my work. This is what I want to pursue moving forward. More on it in the later section of the post.

Key Things I Learned in 2010

I learn new things every day, and if I were to list down all my learnings in 2010 the post will never end. Below are 10 learnings I’d like to share with you:

2011 Vision Moving Forward

Moving forward now, I want Personal Excellence to be the #1 place for all of us who want to grow and achieve excellence in life. I don’t want this to just be a blog/site where I write entries and people just read. There are many blogs out there that do this fine and it’s great for them, but I want Personal Excellence to be more than that. I want this to be our home, where we grow together. This isn’t about me; this is about you and all of us here. This is going to be the place where we face all of life’s obstacles together, walk together in our life’s journey and create our best life ahead. This is going to be the place where we meet other like-minded individuals passionate about growth and grow hand-in-hand with one another. This is where we become our best selves and live our best lives, ever!

In line with that, I’ll be launching more site-wide activities starting next month, where all of us can engage and grow together. Where the first 2 years of Personal Excellence has been about building the foundation, now moving onward I’ll be working with everyone to apply what we’ve learned into our life. We’re going to explode together as a community! I’m planning a new challenge for January, which I’m bursting to tell all of you, but I’m keeping it under wraps for the moment. I’ll be announcing it at the blog in a couple of days’ time, so stay tuned!

As we move forward, my 2 key objectives which have always been with me since I started this journey will remain to be the same: (1) To give maximum value to others (2) To help others achieve their highest potential and live their best lives.

Thank you for being here with me and I love all of you! I look forward to a fantastic 2011 ahead for all of us!! Stay tuned for the new challenge in January! I’ll be posting the announcement post in a few days’ time!

Update Jan ’11: The new challenge is up! Read: “Live a Healthier Life in 21 Days” 2011 Challenge

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(Originally written and published on Jan 4, 2010)

Happy 2010 and welcome to the new decade! Today’s article is about choosing the area of your life to transform for this brand new year.

By now, some of you are probably armed with your list of 2010 goals to make it a blast. Some of you may not have thought about your goals yet. If you haven’t done so, it’s not too late to do it now! Take out a pen and paper, and spend the next 15 min (or more if you need to) writing everything it takes to make your 2010 the best year ever yet.

You might want to read Part-3 of Goal Achievement Series on Establish Your Goals, which shares 10 key principles behind powerful goals.

Finish the exercise before continuing on with this article. I’ll wait for you here until you are done.

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Done? How many goals did you come up with? When I did the 2010 goal setting exercise with my clients, most of them came up with 10+ goals. I personally have a list of 14 big goals for the year. The most I’ve encountered so far is 40 goals, and it’s by a 16 year old girl!

In general, the more goals you set and strive for, the more you will get out of life (assuming these are empowering goals). However, it’s also obvious the more goals you set, the harder it will be to achieve all, simply because the increased number of goals will divert your energy. That’s where setting a focus for your year comes in.

Power of a Yearly Focus

Setting a focus for your year means to identify an area of your life you want to disproportionately focus on improving throughout the year. This focus can be an area of your life which you feel you have been neglecting in the past and want to start working on. It can be an area which, when improved upon, will enable you to have the best experience for the year.

When you set a focus for the year, it doesn’t mean you can only have goals in that area. You can continue to set other goals that may be out of the focus, just that a majority of your goals will be related to your focus in some way or another. For example, perhaps your focus for 2010 is to improve yourself, and then you will have different goals related to that, such as to be more productive, more sociable, increase your income, lose weight, and so on.

Your focus can be anything, from:

1. An area in your life (career, health, finance, spiritual, family, friends, love, recreation, personal growth)
2. A skill (communication, writing, public speaking, dancing, swimming, running, etc)
3. An aspect of yourself you want to cultivate/strengthen (self-love, being sociable, confidence, charisma, productivity, organization, discipline, having integrity, responsibility, etc)
4. A certain message you want to convey to yourself/the world

Benefits of Choosing A Yearly Focus

Why choose a focus for the year? There are two key benefits, really:

Benefit # 1: Transformational Results in Area of Focus

When I was in my brand management role in my past company, we would design every marketing campaign around a single big idea rather than separate different messages. It had been repeatedly proven that a single, powerful big idea registered with more people and triggered more action than say, having 4-5 different messages, which typically confused consumers and resulted in no action taken in the end.

Similarly for goals, by choosing 1 core focus for our year, you accelerate the achievements and progress within the area in the year, resulting in transformational results. The beauty of a focus is that by being conscious and aware of your focus, it helps you to move ahead with much more clarity. This clarity will drive you to achieve tremendously in this area. Compared to if we were to have a laundry list of 40 goals in some 10 different areas – nothing’s ever going to get done! Chances are, we are going to get overwhelmed before mid-point or we are going to totally forget about the goals we set and revert back to our past behaviors!

Benefit # 2: Sets In Place the Improvements Made

Besides getting more results, it also sets in place the improvements we have achieved in that area. Many people often have the problem of setting goals, achieving results in those goals, then having what they have achieved in those goals after they shift their attention else where. Yet when you spend a whole of 1 year working on an area, the improvements you obtain in that area are going to be deeply set in at the end of the year.

Let’s say you make health a focus area and you achieve a tremendous amount of improvements in the year. Throughout the year, you improve your diet, you exercise regularly, you wake up early every day. By the end of the year, not only would you have made dramatic leaps in your health, but the changes would also become a staple in your life because the actions have turned into habits. You are now more ready to focus on new areas and introduce new changes in your life.

My Focus Areas Through The Years

2007-2008 – Personal Growth

For me, in 2007-2008, my focus area was personal growth through corporate work in my ex-company. Throughout the course of my work, I was consistently requesting for the biggest and the best projects to stretch myself. I strove to exceed expectations for every piece of work I was given. I signed up for the best trainings within the company so I was ahead in my learning curve. I also connected with the seniors in the company to learn from them.

In the end, I was able to rotate across 3 different assignments in my 2 years in the company, when the norm in the company was 1 assignment per 2 years. All in all, this allowed me to gain a massive amount of knowledge and learnings, which then enabled me to quit and pursue my passion thereafter.

2009 – Establishing My Passion

In 2009 which was last year, my focus area was establishing my passion to the world. As a result, majority of my biggest achievements last year was centered on my passion, such as setting up my training business, being featured on media, establishing Personal Excellence, becoming a full-time life coach, speaking and giving workshops and so on.

Because I was so fervently pursuing my passion, it made me realize 2 things which I shared in my previous 2009 reflections article: #1 Helping others is what I want to do for the rest of my life. #2 The reason why I do what I do every day is because of you.

2010 – People, Love and Relationships

This year, my focus is going to be centered around people, love and connections. Putting other people’s needs in the forefront, loving everyone wholly and unconditionally, and establishing meaningful, authentic and real relationships. On hindsight, this is definitely no coincidence especially having discovered the driving force behind pursuing my passion is really helping others grow (see above).

So what is the scope of this focus? Everything, really.

• The World: Reaching out to even more people to help them live their best life. Knowing my readers, clients and workshop participants more deeply as individuals.
• Familial Bonds: Strengthening my connections with my parents who have always been forever doting on me since young, yet I have hardly ever reciprocated the love.
• Friendship: Knowing my current friends even better as individuals.
• Networking: Getting out there and knowing others better. Online: connecting with more fellow personal development bloggers and knowing current blogger friends better as individuals.  Offline:  Connecting with more experts and counterparts in the industry.
• Leadership: In terms of having a vision, carrying it true, and leading people (all of you) in the journey of growth.
• Love: In the past, I had been emotionally closed towards relationships. The past few years have seen the unlocking of these bonds, one after another. I look forward to uncovering and addressing more of my blind spots in this area.

To be honest, I’m really excited about this because people and relationships is something I had never overtly set as a goal in the past. Since then, the past 4 years from 2006-2009 have been a long journey of inner growth, from understanding myself, uncovering blind spots, increasing performance, surpassing personal limits, increasing my consciousness, living in the now, and many, many more. Having done so much inner growth and understood myself to a certain degree, I believe I’m now ready to transfer my attention to the outside world by focusing on the others around me.

In fact, after making the decision to focus on this goal, several blind spots have become apparent to myself. For one, my responsibility towards others. While I’ve always been responsible for my own self, I have not effected the same rigor to others around me. In retrospect, I’m beginning to realize my actions implicate others more than I have recognized.

Another blind spot is empathy towards others. I feel there is room for me to be more empathetic towards others – being sensitive to them, putting their needs first, understanding their feelings and knowing them as individuals. I look forward to seeing more blind spots and addressing them as I move ahead.

While I still have other goals in other areas (such as losing some more pounds toward my ideal weight, learning to manage my energy to maximize my productivity output), the focus on people and connections is the key anchor that holds all my goals together. This will be the guiding point for my daily thoughts and behaviors every day in 2010.

With this new focus for this year, be prepared to see more articles on people and relationships this year too.

Which Area Of Your Life Do You Want To Transform This Year?

How about you? What is your 2010 Focus? What is the key area in your life you want to transform this year to make it the best year ever?

As mentioned above in point #4, your focus can be a message itself. One of my readers was telling me that 2009 had been a year where he had grown a lot as a person – particularly on the professional front and his health. His focus for 2010 is boost his productivity through “focusing on the big things“.

Another reader, Kimberly, said that her 2009 had been focused on others, and she now intends for 2010 to be “a year of focus for herself”, which I thought is a fabulous idea! To be able to truly help others, you need to first meet your own needs first and foremost. One of my clients’ focus for this year is “To live life to the fullest”, which is the central message behind all the 2010 he is going to achieve.

There is no right or wrong answer on what your focus is. It just needs to (i) be a single theme you want to focus on in the whole year and (ii) resonate with what you feel is  biggest block towards living your best life this year.

Decide on your 2010 focus, then start living true to it immediately. You will find that with a focus for the year, everything starts becoming a whole lot more coherent and things flow more naturally. Focus on this area and target to make the biggest progress and evolution this year than you ever have before.

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2009.

What a year.

2009 marks the first year whereby I’m full fledgedly pursuing my passion to help others achieve excellence and live their best life. Subsequently, 2009 marks the first year where I’m in a total state of “flow” in every single moment I live. Everything feels so natural and surreal. It seems as if 1st Jan 2009 was light years ago, as if I’ve been doing what I’m doing now for the longest time ever. I don’t remember when’s the last time I ever felt this way about anything. It feels… like I’m living in a dream. It’s so amazing that it’s indescribable.

I learned many things for myself this year. Some of these have been documented in my articles throughout the year. Many have been duly recorded in my life handbook as part of my personal journey of growth. All the learnings I have gotten – I intend to share on the blog in the future, in its own time and place.

Rather than flood this post with a tsunami of realizations and learnings, I decided to share the two biggest things I have learned for myself this year.

Two Biggest Things I Learned in 2009

1. I realized helping others is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

If you have read my personal story of how I discovered my life purpose, you might have noticed a large part of how I arrived at my life purpose was through logical deduction. In 2006, I realized the pursuit of monetary, material possessions and recognition as ends in themselves was meaningless, because these were impermanent and would disappear one day. From there, I concluded I would focus on personal growth as my life mission – developing consciousness of myself and others, since it is the only thing that is permanent in the world.

Today, 1 year after pursuing this passion/mission/purpose, I can now conclusively say that apart from mental resonance, I’m now in full emotional resonance with my desire to help others grow. I don’t just know it. I feel it in my heart, fully and wholly now. There’s nothing in the world I would ever trade for to stop doing this.

The continuous, heartwarming feedback from readers, 1-1 coaching clients and workshop participants have affirmed my realization. Since the start of the blog, readers have continuously told me how the articles have empowered them in their journey of personal growth, such as taking action on their dreams, getting over life’s setbacks, loving themselves, making bold & necessary changes in their lives and quitting their full-time jobs to do what they love. Clients have told me how amazing they felt after the coaching sessions, how they discovered more about themselves through the sessions compared to all their life so far, how they have created changes they never thought possible before. All these are the best rewards I can ever get for what I do today.

2. I realized the reason why I do what I do every day is because of you.

This realization really came as a result of a serendipitous and spontaneous question that popped in my mind a month ago or so. “What if one day, there is nobody else in this world but me? Would I still be as driven towards life and personal growth as I am now?”

The answer that came back was a quiet, yet resounding, “No .”.

It then struck me that the primary thing that drives me every day is really, you. In the past 2 years since discovering my life purpose, I had been equally driven towards my personal growth and growth of others, with slight inclination towards the latter. Today, it’s clear that it’s the love for all of you out there and the desire to help you live your best life that drives me. As I shared last week, the reason why I openly share about myself and my life to the media and the world is because of you. If none of you exist, I wouldn’t be as driven or passionate toward my own growth as I am right now. The real reason why I strive to grow and be my best self every day is so I can better help you and others grow and live your best life.

15 Key Highlights of 2009

Passion/Career/Business

1. Decided not to return to corporate work and fully embrace my passion now (March).

• From there, turned my passion into my full-time career

2. Started my training business, The School of Personal Excellence (TSOPE), in September

• TSOPE is the first school to help you achieve your goals and dreams. If there is only 1 thing I have to single out as my key achievement for this year, this will be the one

  (Update Oct ’11: I’ve since the blog and my training business as 1 entity – “Personal Excellence”, and I now focus on driving the message of growing and helping others grow via online, as it is a high leverage medium where I can reach out to many people at one go (vs. physical workshops, where I can only train X number of people in 1 session). In the future, I intend to tap on other high leverage mediums, including traditional TV at some point.)

3. Built and established Personal Excellence, reaching out and touching the lives of people around the world

• To date, we have over 140 350 free, quality personal excellence articles (as of Oct ’11) , almost 2k over 20k unique readers every day and 1.7k 26k subscribers! (as of Oct ’11)
• Started Facebook Fanpage, with over 2.7k 3.5k fans currently! Do join us if you haven’t already!

4. Became a full fledged life coach and established myself in the profession

• Equipped myself with coaching skills through self-learning and experience and became a better coach through the year. Developed my own robust coaching system based on my learnings in life and personal philosophy.
• Gave personal 1-1 coaching to nearly 50 clients this year, helping them transform their lives and achieve results in their personal goals and dreams
• Since I started coaching in Apr, 1-1 coaching rates have increased by over ten-fold due to the overdemand. The 1-1 coaching continues to be overbooked today, though I plan to remove the waiting list in 2010 due to urgency behind some clients’ requests

5. Started officially speaking and training in the area of personal excellence

• Gave speeches, trainings and workshops in various schools and organizations
• Spoke to an audience of almost 1,000 people
• Became a better speaker through self-learning and direct speaking experience. Look forward to more developments in this area in 2010

6. Interviewed and featured in local and regional media 12 times

• It first started with My Paper in late March, then everything rolled on from there To date, I’ve been covered by almost every media outlet locally and it’s something I’m extremely grateful for.
• Check media section for a full list of media coverage and the clippings/recordings of the interviews

Health / Fitness

7. Experimented with raw veganism for 21 days (May-June)

• Decided to return to cooked vegan food for now since it’s too hard to upkeep a raw vegan diet in the modern society

8. (Almost) achieved my desired weight / look

• Still a few pounds left to lose and toning to do. After that, I gather I’m finally done with weight loss goals after all these years

Relationships

9. Improved my relationships with my parents!

• Hugged my parents for the first time since I was a kid! Also gave my family members each a personal card expressing love and gratitude for everything they have done for me. This was a huge deviation from the norm since we hardly ever talk, especially between me and my brother. I think they must have thought I was popping pills.

10. Initiated and re-established contact with people from my past

• Most of these were people whom I had negative encounters with previously and didn’t continue contact afterward. Figured that as I’m going to be coaching others to release personal blocks, I needed to first walk the talk

11. Established and fostered strong friendships in the personal development industry

• I’m very thankful for the work I do, because it enables me to become acquainted with such incredible people. Moving forward in this journey, I look forward to meeting even more of such people.

12. Got to know over 2k new readers and friends on both Facebook and Twitter, thanks to the blog

• If you have FB and/or Twitter but haven’t added me yet, please feel free to do so

13. Mutually parted with my best friend of 10 years

• Our friendship had served its role in the earlier years, and it had come to a point where it was preventing us from living in full alignment with purpose and our highest selves. In the end we mutually parted to progress in our life journey. Read: Why I Parted Ways With My Best Friend of 10 Years

14. Forgave and finally completely let go of someone who had been in my heart for the past 4 years

• I never did realize this was preventing me from receiving new people into my life. When I finally realized that, I consciously let him go from my heart, and what resulted was a feeling of liberation I had never felt before. Read: How I Moved On From A Heartbreak (Series)

Spirituality

15. Strengthened my connection with my higher self (subconsciousness)

• While I had not actively worked on my spirituality this year (deprioritized for now as I want to solidify the foundations of my personal growth first), my intuitive connection has definitely strengthened over the year. This becomes especially apparent through my 1-1 coaching and new people I meet. This actually doesn’t come as a surprise, since everything I’m doing now is directly aligns myself with my higher self and hence strengthens my connection with my subconsciousness.

A Huge Thank You to All of You

Thank you so much to all of you who have reached out to me at one point or another to send me your well wishes, feedback and appreciation, whether through email, facebook, twitter or in person. Thank you to all of you who have helped spread the word about Personal Excellence and/or my message to others around you, be it your friends, your family and other people. Thank you to all the personal development bloggers – Armen, Kristi, Vincent, Jonathan, Dragos, Dani, Mark, Albert, Luciano, and many others who have in one way or another helped drive awareness of this blog to many others.

Thank you. Thank you to all of you for your continuous support. Thank you for giving me the chance to do what I do today. Without any of you, I wouldn’t be who I am or what I am today. Because of you, I’ve become a better person than before. Because of you, I’m living the best life I’ve ever lived. You guys are my strength, my pillar and my life. Thank you for being who you are and for being alive. Because of you, I will go on to create even bigger things, things I never thought I would achieve.

Reflecting on Your 2009

Just like I have been doing 2009 reflection with my coachees the past couple of weeks, I would like to invite you to do the same. There’s always something to learn from everything, and what’s most important is to crystallize the learnings so you take something valuable from all the past experiences. Reflecting enables you to bring these learnings forward and improve your experience of life. It’s all about living your best life! :).

Take out your pen and paper and think about the following in the context of 2009:

1. What are your major achievements and notable events this year?
2. What have you learned for yourself this year?
   
3. What are your key goals for 2010 to make it a huge blast?

Many readers and clients have told me they found 58 Noteworthy Resolutions For The New Year very helpful for them as they set their resolutions/goals for 2010, so you might want to check that out too as you set your 2010 goals.

Comments are open if you would like to share your reflections with the rest!

Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010! Let’s work together to make 2010 a BIG BANG! I’m feeling so excited about 2010 ahead – I have absolutely no doubt this is going to be the best year ever for all of us

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