For me discovering the Year Compass tool at the end of 2020 was a gamechanger - and now it’s something I look forward to doing at New Year each year ever since.

It’s a free downloadable booklet that encourages you, through a set of gentle questioning, to reflect back in detail to your last 12 months. You are asked to identify highlights for the year and key peoples and events that have shaped the year into what it is.

It also prompts us to be kind to ourselves, to forgive and to let things go and move on, which are vital tools of self compassion and resilience that allow us to draw a line and focus on the way forward.

The second half of the booklet is of course all about the next 12 months and it encourages you to dream big and imagine what you can achieve. This is the really fun bit and I relish the idea of knowing the next 12 months are ahead of me and I have the power to make some, if not all, of my dreams a reality. Writing it down is really powerful and I have referred back to this part of last years Year Compass to reference it on multiple occasions.

If this sounds like something you’d love to do, here’s a link to their website to download the booklet.