Since 2009, I've started every year with a "performance review" of my life. I was inspired by Chris Guillebeau and by all the career counselors I saw while laid off. It's an excellent exercise to help me live with intent and not fritter away all my spare time watching Masterpiece Theater (Oh, Little Dorrit!). It also is a nice arsenal of evidence to have for those times when I am feeling especially bad or especially good and think it has always been so. A spreadsheet of my goals and accomplishments is a tangible reminder of where I've struggled and succeeded.
It is almost April and I have just started to put pen to paper on my plan for 2012. Something I never realized: not having a spreadsheet is also a good reminder, in this case, that I'm sucking at the career/life balance goals.
Or perhaps you just suck at maintaining spreadsheets.
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