New Years Resolution

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HOW TO WRITE YOUR LETTER

Your letter should talk about the year you want to have ahead. Simon says the letter should answer five questions:

  • What are the fears you plan to tackle, those things you believe are holding you back?
  • What are adventures you will embrace in the year to come?
  • How will you connect or reconnect with others in your life?
  • How will you plan to grow?
  • What can you do to serve others?

“These are the key questions that seem to evoke the deepest reactions,” says Simon. “They are what bring up key issues. They’re not necessarily what you’re going to do in Q1 and Q2 for goals. It’s deep, internal, intimate value work.”

REVIEWING YOUR LETTER

Once you write your letter, refer to it over the course of the year. Reading your letter over again will become a key motivator throughout the course of the year. Since it’s personal to you, it will remind you what your key values and goals are.

“It really keeps you on track with what are the most important aspects of your life,” says Simon, who suggests keeping your letter nearby, such as in your nightstand. “Don’t be afraid to revise it. This is a living document.”

Be sure to review your letter at the end of the year before you write the one for the next year. “When you take a look at that letter after a year there is something really special about that moment,” says Simon. “You are talking directly to yourself, saying, ‘This is what I cared about a year ago. How did I do? Did I hit those values?’ I make reading it at the end of the year a big deal.”

When you go through the process of reviewing it, look at where you hit the mark and where you don’t. Give yourself grace and the ability to be human. “Know that there are times when you will miss the mark,” says Simon. “You won’t always do exactly what you think that you will do; life intervenes sometimes and sometimes we fall short.”

For those things you failed to do, say to yourself one of two things, suggests Simon: ‘Yes, I want to do this better, and I’m going to recommit to it,” he says. “Or it turns out that this wasn’t really what I needed to do. It wasn’t that important to me now that I’ve been through the year.’”

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