14 questions to review your year

The year is coming to an end, which also means it is time to review your year! Why you should review your year? Reviewing your year means finishing with your year, as well as analyzing what lessons and how you’ve learned, so you can take the best of it and bring it with you into the next year! By taking a closer look at things, you get a clearer view and you realize a lot of things that will help you continue to grow in the next year!

So to help you review your year the right way, here are 14 questions to review your year!

Before you start answering the questions, I want to to know that if at any moment, any strong emotions come your way, please don’t stay there and skip the rest of the post, but take some deep breaths, go on and make sure you read and answer all of the questions. You will feel better at the end!

1. Describe your year with one word

What is the one word that pops up in your head when thinking about this year? I am sure there is something peculiar to this year, something that shaped you this year. For me, as an example, I call my year… awakening.

2. Do a chronological review. Note all the ups and downs.

Start with January, then February and so on. Make an objective summary. You can also draw a curve with all the ups and downs. Be careful and detailed. Relive the year. Notice your fights, your challenges, your growth, your mindset. The journey. But stay objective and don’t judge or blame.

3. What moved you this year? Either in a good or bad way?

What moved you? What made you cry, what made you laugh? Can you name the emotional ups and downs? What feelings dominated the year?

4. If you could relive one moment, which one would it be and why?

What is the moment of the year that you will never forget? The moment that you would give everything to relive one more time? Why and what did that moment change in your life?

5. Is there something you regret?

Is there something you would like to undo? Why? If there is, I invite you to rethink, try to accept it as a part of you, smile at it, hug it, give it some love and then let it go. We need to let go of the things that get us down, because else they will settle down in our minds, and they will eventually get back to the surface and harm us again, until we let them go. So better do it right away, because it will not get any easier in the future.

6. What are you happy and grateful for?

Which experiences filled you with happiness? What were your happy moments? What are you grateful for?

7. Write down some „phrases of the year“

This can literally be anything. Something somebody else said, some lesson you learned, some quote you found that moved or shaped you and your actions, etc…

8. Did you live with intention this year?

Were you in the driver seat of your life this year? Did you love yourself and live for yourself, and not for somebody else? Were your decisions intentional or did you let outer conditions determine you? Did you let yourself be led by your brain or you emotions? Be objective and know that nothing of it is either good or bad.

9. What did you achieve this year?

Which goals did you reach? What are the achievements of the year? How did you do it?

10. Which new habits have you built?

There are consistently new things entering your life, and we humans continuously are building new habits and letting go of old ones. What new habits have you built this year? Which did you give up? Why did you decide to build or give up those habits? What are the consequences?

11. Are your dreams nearer than last year?

Did you follow your dreams this year? Do you feel like you got a little or a lot closer to them? Did your dreams change? Did you find any more dreams for the future? Or did you maybe even only start to dream this year?

12. Did you and how did you work on your personal growth?

Did you consciously work on your personal growth? Have you found out more about yourself? Did you practice self-care and self-love? What did you improve? Did you get out of your comfort zone? Did you have troubles with growing? Maybe you need to first allow your personal growth?

13. Was it a good year?

Whatever you feel like answering, consider these questions: Did you grow this year? Did you learn something? Did you stand up after every bad? Are you still standing? This year taught you a lot, you are stronger now, no matter if you can feel it right now. This year prepared you for the next, and you will notice eventually. The next year is full of new chances. Everything that happened this year brought you where you are now.  

14. Write another word to describe the year

Compare both words and see if the reviewing changed your perception of the year in any way. If it did, in which way did it change and what can you learn from it? Maybe you should question your perception more often, be more gentle with yourself, or take care of a positive mindset? This year, no matter what, brought you nearer to your goals. And with this being said….

No matter what you encountered during this review, decide to accept and allow all of it. Everything that happened this year is a part of you, and you should not deny any of it. Love what the year gave you, embrace it, let go of the ballast and take the valuable stuff with you into the new year to continue growing! Smile and be ready to make the next year even better.

If I was able to help you with reviewing your year, I’d love for you to share it with a friend! Now have some nice last days of this year! 😀