Crystallize your 2024 insights with these 12 prompts!
Questions to uncover your greatest takeaways from the year through journaling, contemplation, and dinner table conversation 🤍✨🍃
What have been your biggest victories, joyful highlights, and most pleasant surprises of 2024?
What are some mistakes you made this year that you plan not to repeat in 2025?
Who are the people that were there for you to support you through your rough times and celebrate your victories? What messages do you have for them? (You're encouraged to let them know!)
Describe the tough conversations that you had this year with your family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or strangers. What are the throughlines—recurring themes—that connect them?
What were the darkest days, heaviest struggles, and most challenging experiences you faced this year?
What's a story from this year that you'd like your descendants for many generations (your grandkids and their grandkids) to hear?
How has the quality of your life changed this year in terms of:
A) Relationships?
B) Physical Health? (Fitness, exercise, sleep, diet, digestion, energy levels, etc)
C) Mental and Emotional Health?
D) Finances?
E) Career?
F) Spirituality and Purpose?
G) Social Contribution and Community?
H) Leisure and Play?
I) Environment and Surroundings?
List the things you did a little differently this year and how they turned out!
What's something you haven't gotten around to yet in 2024 that you could still accomplish before the year's up?
If you could go back in time to January 1, 2024, and deliver a message to yourself (aside from "Buy Bitcoin!") what would it be?
Which works of art—songs, movies, shows, paintings, poems, comedy bits—moved you this year?
What were the most meaningful experiences brought to you by Mother Nature (aka Pachamama, aka Gaia, aka Terra, aka Bhumi, aka Jörð, aka Asase Yaa, aka Tonantzin, aka Prithvi, aka Danu, aka Papa) in 2024?
I'd love to read your answers to these prompts! You're welcome to share them with me.
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