Hellooooo, 2020

Unpopular opinion here: New Year's Day is my favorite holiday. I know what you’re thinking, and no, not the sequins/champagne/drinking part. I love that for a few weeks surrounding the day, it’s appropriate to ask people at parties, “what are you leaving behind last year?”, “what do you want more of in the next year?”, or “what is one word you’d use to describe your last year?”. 

I would (and do) do this at parties year-round, but it doesn’t always elicit a well-thought out response. 

After lobbing these questions around over the last couple of weeks, I’ve gotten some cool responses. More so than the responses, I love hearing how people got to their responses. What I’ve learned is that there are many frameworks to think about your future, and I love them all.

I know we’ve done a decent job at covering templates for reflecting and dreaming, so this is just meant as a supplement if you have room for more goals or if you feel “behind” and didn’t make any yet this year. I’m here to remind you that as much as I love New Year's Day, it’s just a day. You can create goals any day at any moment -- after all, every single day marks a new decade. Today ends the decade of 1/3/10-1/3/20.

Here are some frameworks I've heard people loving on this year:

• More / Less / New: What do you want more of? What do you want less of? What new things do you want to add?

• One word: Decide on one word as a theme you want to assign to 2020.

• 3 Main goals + expected outcomes: what are your three main goals for 2020 and what are the expected outcomes from those goals?

• Data: What data do you want to collect over the course of 2020? 

• Here is the framework I put together for myself (and a few others). Feel free to share and use!

Just because it’s fun, here are some of the responses I’ve heard. These are all fake names (turns out I can only make up names from the 50’s). Enjoy!

- Sherman: Cut out other people’s “shoulds”. Your shoulds are your shoulds; they’re not my shoulds.
- Randall: leaving behind self-doubt in 2019
- Oscar: No new hobbies
- Gertrude: Mastering my magic. Lean into my fearlessness. Love deeper
- Esther: The year of abundance
- Camille: Less doing, more being
- Susan: Leaving behind anxiety. More trust in myself
- Evan: More joy via time spent outdoors. Every other weekend spent outside of the city

What are yours? Pretend we’re at a party and I’m asking you, let me know!

Peace + Laughs,
CC