The 2024 Annual Reflection Template
A free framework for deep reflection on 2023, to set the stage for an amazing 2024.
Welcome entrepreneurs! I’m so glad you’re here.
We’ve reached my favorite time of year. The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years, during which the entire world seems to slow down. The time of year when everyone seems to become just a bit more reflective. A bit less interested in maniacally achieving, and a bit more interested in resting, learning, and evolving.
“You cannot have a meaningful life without self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here." – Oprah Winfrey
This reflective energy is important, at least once per year. I work with entrepreneurs every day who have sprinted their entire lives, only to find themselves running at top speed in a direction they don’t believe in. Winning the wrong race. Or burning out in the process.
Conscious reflection is what ensures the millions of actions we take every day are aligned with the life we want to live. Conscious reflection is what transforms our experiences into wisdom, creating the building blocks for a well-constructed next chapter. Without it, we’ve lived, but we haven’t learned.
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." – Peter Drucker
And in celebration of this special time of year, I’m excited to officially share with you:
The (Fourth Annual) Inside-Out Annual Reflection Template
A ~2-3 hour journey of structured exploration, reflection, and intention, the 2024 Annual Reflection template is a comprehensive tool to help you make the most of this time of year. And we’ve completely redesigned it, based on the feedback from the hundreds of entrepreneurs who leveraged last year’s template.
Inside, you will:
Mine maximum insights, lessons, and wisdom from your experiences in 2023.
Explore what is most important to you, from the most powerful perspective available to man.
Discover any areas in which your current ways of being are misaligned with what you say is important.
Clarify and crystallize what success means to you in 2024, and develop a plan to achieve that success without setting yourself up for burnout.
Whether you’re sprinting through the finish line right now, or gracefully transitioning into the slower pace of the holidays, I invite you to take reflection seriously this year. Learn from your past, and from those who have come before you.
And whether you use a structured template or not, intentionally dedicate some time to slow down, stop all the achieving, and take a look around. At your company. At your relationships. At your life.
It may be the highest ROI activity of your year.
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful." – Margaret J. Wheatley
Happy Holidays. I’m so grateful to get to talk with you all every other week.
With Great Love,
Ryan
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This is amazing. Thank you for the share. My focus is self aware leadership and a big element of that is reflection. So thank you!