How To Get Ready For The New Year

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

― Benjamin Franklin

This quote sums up what I want to say.

Preparation is a key factor to success. If you don’t prepare you risk wasting your time, feeling disappointed, getting stuck, feeling lost, and not achieving what you want

that’s why I wrote this article to help you prepare for the new year to be ready to conquer it when it hits

These are the same things I do to get ready

So, let’s do it together

What’ll learn

-8 practical steps to prepare for the new year

-explanation and resources to help with each

note: this is the first post in the “Start the Year Strong series” Check the end of the post for links to all posts in the series

Here are The 8 steps to help prepare for the new year and start the year strong

1-reflect and review the past year

This step is an important one where you get to see what happened during the past year

The wins, the progress, and the fails

Understanding why things happen the way they are is a powerful way

to not repeat the same things again

Learning from your past mistakes or wins is important to succeed 

I know this step can be hard and daunting at times, especially

if you feel that you didn’t achieve your goals I urge you to do it despite that

here are the post that will show you how to reflect on the past year

here is an old post about how to review your year that I did a while back that you can follow

check the new version about how to reflect on a year things that I changed since I created that post

2-set goals 

Now you are ready to set your goal(s) 

Setting goals is fun part that’s why don’t go overboard with it

The goal isn’t to set many goals but to choose where to put your focus with these goals

So, don’t set too many in general 

I recommend one goal for each area and after you accomplish it you can add more

Or set the number you know you can achieve based on your previous years

here are the posts about how to set goals that actually work to achieve them

based on Neuroscience

Here is an old post of mine where I share how to set goals

effectively based on common psychology

3-plan your time and what action steps you take

What action steps are you going to take to achieve your goal?

How are you going to plan your quarter, month, and week?

Imperative to plan your time in general and plan the action

steps that you need to take to reach your goal(s)

while keeping in mind these actions you write don’t have to be full i.e. you don’t have to write everything that needs to be done to reach your goals

you’ll figure it out as you go and use your monthly and weekly

planning to update what you’ll do next

Right now just write the actions that you need to do to reach your goal based on your research, learning,…

after you finish setting your goals plan them then divide your plan into multiple planning systems which consist of planning quarterly, monthly, and weekly planning

in the following posts, you’ll find how to plan your quarter, month, week

and general planning tips

they are as follows

plan and review your quarter

plan and review your month

how to plan and review your week

how to plan properly

free workbook that has the complete process of planning your quarter, month, and week

4-set and build habits

Habits are the systems that will help you reach your goals.

building supportive habits is foundational to reaching your goals

Therefore, start thinking about what habits you can do that will move toward your goal(s).

I’ll break everything in this article on how to build habits and what habits to build based on neuroscience

5-cultivate special mindsets

to help you persevere during hard times 

There are specific mindsets that helped me and are still helping

one of them is developing a growth mindset which entails changing the way you look at challenges that you face toward learning, goals and anything,

changing how you see your abilities and potential as something you can develop, cultivate

on that account, you can get better

there are others which I talk about extensively in the following post

here is an article about 3 mindsets you need to succeed at every goal

6-get and stay motivated 

Why are you going after your goal(s) you need to know that first because that’s the biggest motivation

why is it painful not to achieve your goal(s)?

motivation doesn’t always come as you feeling like doing something or you feeling energetic but motivation is your desire to reach a goal badly despite how you feel

you create your own motivation and don’t wait for it. here is how

Of course, several things have the potential to help you get and stay motivated

the following 2 posts will have a few ways that will help you with that

The Comprehensive Guide On Motivation, How It Work And How To Increase It

Can’t Get Myself Motivated? 3 Powerful Ways To Get Motivated

7-boost your productivity

what can you do to be productive? How can you get things done?

How can you get the important thongs done?

Managing your time, improving your focus, and getting work done efficiently

are key to reaching your goals

this article I wrote has 3 productivity tips that work for perfectionists,and high achievers

8-beat procrastination 

That’s something that happens to the best of us so, you are not alone

you’ll learn how to stop doing it gradually even if you don’t eliminate it 100% but you will at least by 80% which is wonderful!!

The goal isn’t to be perfect at anything but to strive to do the best and make progress

That applies to anything you do even this

so, aiming to eliminate procrastination by 70-80% is much better for your psyche and progress

in this new article, you’ll find 5 strategies to beat procrastination and the psychological mechanism of procrastination

Here is another older article that has 12 ways to beat procrastination

and this one will show sneaky forms of procrastination and how to overcome them

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This post is an overview of “Start the Year Strong series”

for each step here there is a post that goes into details about it. That’s why it’s a short one

All of these posts have an aim to help you prepare for the new year and start the year strong

here is the list of all the articles in the “Start the Year Strong series“

• How To Get Ready For The New Year
• How To Reflect On The Past Year
• How To Set Goals That Actually Work
• How To Make A Plan To Reach Your Goals
• How To Set Habits
• 3 Mindsets You Need To Succeed At Every Goal
• Can’t Get Myself Motivated? 3 Powerful Ways To Get Motivated
• How To Beat Procrastination Tips: 5 Strategies Based On Science

To Your Success

Wafaa