Reflection, my favourite me time

To help you reflect in a structured way and enter 2018 with clear head, knowing where you are going and why do you wake up every morning. I love reflection methods and I got a perfect NY gift from my bestie: Lisa Jacob's Your best year 2018 book. It is full of great questions and I'd like to share some of them.

My favourite reflection methods, questions

START. STOP. CONTINUE. 

A great evaluation method that can also be used for personal reflection. With what do you want to start in 2018? What do you want to stop? What do you want to continue doing? Useful for every area of our lives; work, relationships, friends, family, hobbies, health, habits.

My personal examples (will add + 10 in each cathegory):

◘ i will start reading books more regularly and I will schedule two hours every week for reading

◘ i will stop worrying about things that don't really matter, such as people that suck my energy or deadlines that are "urgent"

◘ i will continue doing only things I love and I will continue to spend time with people I want to spend my time with

YEAR COMPASS

Great reflection tool: Year compass, online or printable. Grab a cup of nice smelling tea, crawl under your favourite blanket and take time for yourself. On your own or with your friends. I printed this as a gift to my friends in 2016 and I will print it for myself again …

LISA JACOBS: MY BEST YEAR 2018

I love the concept. You need to reflect first and only than you can set the goals – makes perfect sense for me. Some of the questions that helped me immensely: 

·       How commited are you towards achieving your goals?

·       Which decesion that would improve your life quality a lot have you been postponing?

·       Are you better of now than you were a year ago in those five pillars of life: emotional, phisical, mental, financial, relational?

·       What was the time well spent in 2017?

·       Which obstacles did you overcome in 2017?

·       What are your main priorities in life?

·       If this moment was a dollar, are you burning or investing it?

·       What are you afraid of?

You greedy little thing

My 2017 give back project: 10 %

Last year Ranga from Sri lanka approached me about his mother, that had a cancer at the time. At first I thought - omg, we met travelling and now you are asking me for money? Really? A few days later I changed my perspective. Why wouldn’t I help? I have connections, resources and a few hours of my time. I wrote a blog and managed to raise 1000 EUR which helped his mother immensely. It felt really great that people responded (some also didn’t and I admit, I was judging, but in the end - it’s their decision, their money). I loved receiving pictures with Ranga’s mother getting better and better - due to medicine they could buy with money from Slovenia. HELL YEAH! The best thing I did in 2016 I believe …

In 2017 it’s again time to give back. I feel privileged and I want to share. I would feel guilty if I wouldn’t share anything. Hey, but maybe that’s just crazy me, ha? Since I am super exhausted, I decided for an easier way to help others this year. I’m inviting you to join me in 20 % campaign. I’m donating 20 % of my salary to Botrstvo. It is really easy and it took me 3 minutes: DONATE HERE. You can adapt the % you wish to donate to your life situation. 

Excuses - why people don’t donate - are pure bullshit. One of my favourite TED talks actually talks about this, watch it here.

·       NGOs are not spending the money well.

·       My money will be stolen and it will not actually be used for a cause X.

·       I don’t earn that much.

BLA BLA. You are GREEDY. GREEDY! I am sorry to say this, but most of the people I know could donate 20 % of their salary. You can donate - YOU JUST DON’T WANT TO. I (kind of) get it - you don’t feel responsible. You feel that you deserve your money, you worked hard. Sure, we all did. Also the people that couldn’t have a proper NY dinner worked hard. If you are in a situation where you are hardly handling your own bills - of course you’re not donating. Things will get better and when the time is right, you will donate or give back to society in another way.