Time for a Mid-Year Review

Happy July! It is six months into the year and time for a mid-year review. This review is about how we are living our dreams and intentions that we’ve set for ourselves this year. What is the process of a mid-year review? We set aside time to look at our intentions and plans for our lives, check off what we have done, and then decide if our plan is still working or needs revision.

To begin, get comfortable, revisit, and envision these goals and intentions from the beginning of the year.  

At this point, plan 15-30 minutes to review the plan for your goals. Pull out your list in your Live Your Best Life Workbook from the year-end class, or grab your Curated Life Journal, CLJ. Also, look at the vision board you created. Then, I will ask a few unavoidable questions:

• Are you achieving some goals?
• Have you checked off a few boxes of adventures?
• Do your intentions support how you wish to live?
• Do you still want these things in your life?

Hence, here are the answers to my New Year’s plans:

• One with the rest in the works
• Yes
• Not comfortably yet
• Some of these things are not going to work in my future.

Next, check off all you’ve accomplished. Marking items off the list is an important step in getting clear on where you are along the process of what you dreamed about for this year. 

Checking off items on the list may seem redundant, but by looking at it, you may find something you achieved without recognizing it. Be proud of your accomplishments! You may want to create a Ta-Da list to celebrate. If you need one, you can get one here.

***Now, before we go any further down this path. Look at your list and see if some items need to be gone. Cross them off, delete them, or write in red, “This was not for me!” Sometimes, we add things we think we should be doing or pressured to do if that is the case. Or if it is something you thought you wanted and are unsure about. Take-It-Off-the-List!!! Taking it off the list is an action we need to do a little more of, I believe. If something does not call to us, serve us, light a fire in us, or give us butterflies (even the little scary ones), it should not stay on our list. It can come back on the list if it does one of those things. But we do not need them on our list if they only add stress or negative emotions. 

Consequently, it’s time for a mid-year review of your goals and intentions. Besides looking at the physical actions, feel what you want to achieve or “live into” for your life. 

Particularly, consider these questions.

• Can you still see yourself achieving them?
• What has gone sideways and needs to get back on track?
• Can you adjust the time frame?
• Can you ask for help? Or get instructions?
• Once again, go to the previous *** note and consider taking it off the list.

Lastly, after you’ve looked everything over, make adjustments so that you can still achieve your dreams. 

To make adjustments, go back to your Workbook or CLJ:

• Add in any new elements to help with your intentions
• Change a time frame to get back on track
• Ask for help or get an accountability partner
• Find a class or online course to help
• Specifically, cross it off; it doesn’t serve you

Here is a final friendly reminder – live into these intentions.

We have six more months to keep working on our dreams, goals, and adventures. You’ve got this. Just follow the steps above – revisit your plan, check off accomplishments, review what is left to accomplish, make adjustments, and then go live this dream. A mid-year review is part of living a curated life. Living a curated life means taking these steps: dreaming, exploring, selecting, planning, living into our vision, and then adjusting it to serve us better. We have spent months living into our intentions; now, we curate them. This review is how we do that.

And if you need help, I have an event to get realigned. Join me for a ‘Live Your Best Life’ Class in July. Sign up here for this seven-day event. Before you say, “I don’t have that much time,” know that it consists of short daily actions. If you can’t make this live class, please make time for a mid-year review; we offer a self-paced version. Above all, a mid-year review releases overwhelm and stress and, most importantly, gets us back to achieving our dreams. A Carefully Curated Life business of helping others find joy in our lives is one of my big goals if you want to know more about me. Here is my very first blog explaining my ‘Why?’.