Here are 20 questions to help you review the year.
- Who do you know better than you did at the beginning of the year?
- Who have you listened to carefully?
- Who have you cheered for?
- What do you understand better than you did in January?
- What are you explaining to other people that you weren’t able to explain then?
- Where have you been that you didn’t expect to be this year?
- Where have you stopped going because you needed to stop going there?
- When were you most comforted during this last year?
- When did you say, “I’m not sure I can do this” and then discovered that you could?
- What is your favorite sentence, blog post, paragraph, or tweet that you wrote since January?
- What was the most encouraging thing you did for someone this year, as measured by their smile?
- What question have you actually spent time trying to answer this year?
- Where, geographically, did you find the most delight this year?
- What item did you cross of your list this year that had been on it the longest?
- What book did you intentionally quit reading because you knew, halfway through, that you didn’t need to finish to get the author’s content?
- What book did you read that was written before 1846?
- What picture you took did you look at more than once because liked it?
- What was the best conversation you had this year?
- What was the most satisfying $5 you spent this year? (and you get to define satisfying).
- What piece of mail that you received this year made you smile the most.
