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Hello, and welcome to the retro newsletter. This Is my last newsletter for the year. I’ll be away for the next 4 weeks on my summer holiday. I’ll be sharing my favourite personal reflection tool that I use at this time of year to reflect and think about the next year.

“Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”

Richard Carlson

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The Year Compass 🧭

It’s that time of year when we are winding out the old and setting up for the new. We are approaching the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere, and people are flocking to their summer holiday destinations. In South Africa, everything except retail closes or goes onto skeleton staff unless they have something big starting in January.

I am lucky enough to spend 4 weeks at the coast. I will work for some of it, but it will mainly consist of reflection, planning, and writing work.

One of the things I have started doing for the past 4 years is to spend some time on the 30, 31 and 1, reflecting on the past year and planning for the next one. I have never liked resolutions because they feel inauthentic and hard to keep, but the year compass I have come to love as a mechanism for seeing all that can happen in a year, reminding myself of the challenges I overcame and the things I achieved and setting myself up for the next year, with high-level goals or wishes or even ideas.

Most of the time, I don’t look at it after I have completed it. It’s just a mechanism to help me think and plan. So, I wanted to share it here with you. It is a way for you to have a personal retro, and maybe one of you can see how you can use it with a team and send me all the awesome things you did.

Here is the link. I wish everyone a great festive season or a happy holiday, winter solstice, summer solstice, or whatever it is you do at this time of year.

I look forward to next year.

Jo

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