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Get Clear for 2014 - Worksheet

Step 1: Getting Clear

  1. What word or phrase best describes your year in 2013?
  2. What is the best thing that happened to you in 2013?
  3. What or who inspired you the most?
  4. Which one of your successes or accomplishments was the most meaningful to you and why?
  5. On a scale of 1 – 10, rate 2013 (10 being a great year, 1 being a challenging year).
  6. What did you do to nurture your Spirit in 2013?
  7. What was the smartest decision you made in 2013?
  8. What was your greatest learning in 2013?
  9. What brought you the most joy?
  10. What were you most committed to in 2013?
  11. What was your most significant contribution in 2013?
  12. What did you do for fun in 2013?
  13. If you could do over one thing from 2013, what would it be?
  14. What was the most challenging experience in 2013? And what value or benefit did you gain from this?
  15. What one thing had the biggest positive impact on your life in 2013?
  16. What 3 people had the greatest impact on your life in 2013?
  17. What acknowledgements would you like to have given but did not?
  18. What acknowledgement would you like to give yourself for 2013?
  19. What did you do in 2013 to move closer to your personal vision?
  20. During 2013 what did you do for yourself to grow personally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, and relationally?
  21. What three things are you most grateful for?
  22. If you could do one thing over again, what would it be? How would you do it differently?
  23. How aligned were you with your personal values in 2013?
  24. If the person or situation that caused you the most pain and grief in 2013 was actually a blessing in disguise, what is the blessing and how might you celebrate it?
  25. What do you need to let go of to move forward in 2014?
  26. What is one thing you regret from 2013?
  27. What is the one thing you would like to feel okay with in 2013?
  28. What is your biggest piece of unfinished business for 2013?
  29. What else is undone from 2013?
  30. What do you need to do to finish it?
  31. What else do you need to do or say to be complete with 2013?

Step 2: Creating 2014

  1. What are you most looking forward to in 2014?
  2. What will be your most meaningful success or accomplishment in 2014?
  3. If you didn’t care what anyone thought, or what it cost, what would you love to do more than anything in 2014?
  4. What would you like to start doing for fun in 2014?
  5. What do you need to give yourself permission to do in 2014?
  6. Who would you like to spend more time with in 2014?
  7. What is one thing you could implement in your life in 2014 that would support you most?
  8. If you become more like the people you associate with, who would you like to spend more time with?
  9. What are you currently tolerating that if you addressed it, would free up your time and energy?
  10. What excuses or story do you want to let go of in 2014?
  11. What is one thing you would do in 2014 if your success could be guaranteed?
  12. How can you get out of your own way in 2014?
  13. What can you do to better take care of yourself in 2014?
  14. What about yourself or your life are you the most committed to changing in 2014?
  15. What are you looking forward to learning in 2014?
  16. What brings you the most joy and how are you going to have more of it?
  17. How would your life change in 2014 if you unexpectedly received a one million dollars in cash?
  18. What dream would you like to fulfill or start on in 2014?
  19. What contribution to humanity, the planet, or person in 2014?
  20. What can you do differently to be a better person, parent, friend, spouse or love partner?
  21. What are you prepared to do to make 2014 your best year yet?
  22. What belief do you need to change, delete, or modify to support your intentions in 2014?
  23. What requests are you willing to make to get what you want?
  24. What can you do to your physical environment to have it support you more fully in 2014?
  25. What would allow you to enjoy your life more in 2014?
  26. What do you need to give yourself permission to do in 2014?
  27. What advice would you give yourself for 2014?
  28. If 2014 were the last year of your life, what would you do differently?

Step 3: The Theme of 2014

  1. What is 2014 about for you - one word that will be the theme for the year? It is important to get it down to a word or at very most a 1-3 words. One word is better!
  2. Craft one big intention for the year that relates directly to your theme.
  3. Design 3-5 smaller intentions that support your one big theme intention.

Step 4: Walking the Talk

  1. Create a beautiful artistic artful rendition of your 2014 theme, your one big 2014 intention, and your 2014 smaller intentions. Use crayons, paint, markers, sparkles, or whatever will bring out your child-like spirit. Tape it on your bathroom mirror, or pin it wherever you will read it every day for the month of January 2014.
  2. Read this entire document every day for the month of January 2014.
  3. Find 1-2 people willing to pour their hearts & souls into this journey with you. You will share this sacred space with each other. This opens the gate!
  4. Hold each other accountable in the most loving supportive language.
  5. Review this journey on the first day of every month for the calendar year 2014.

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