高起點開始下一年

　　Last but not least, your annual review will help you to start the next year on a high note. As I’m going to share later in the post, doing your review includes setting your goals for the next year. For this year 2011, my one single biggest goal was to build this blog. So this year, while other people were figuring out what to make out of their year, I was a person on a mission. By mid-year I had already exceeded some of my goals, and now that it’s the end of the year, I’ve accomplished what I had set out to do at the beginning, and more.

　　最后，年終總結會幫你從一個高起點開始下一年的工作和生活。正如我稍后要跟大家分享的，年終總結會包括你下一年的目標。2011年我的最大目標是建好這個博客，所以在這一年，當其他人還在找尋到底該干些什么的時候，我已經是一個有任務的人了。年中的時候我就已經超額完成目標，現在到年末，我已經完成了年初的目標，甚至做的更多。

Exercise: Write Your Year End Review for 2011

練習：寫下你的2011年終總結

Let’s get started on your year end review for this year!

從今年開始寫下你的年終總結吧！

　　Take out your life handbook, or if you don’t have your life handbook, take out any notebook or blank piece of paper. If you have a blog, you can copy the questions and answer them in your blog entry.

　　拿出生活手冊，如果沒有的話，就隨便拿本筆記本或是張白紙。如果有博客，也可以把這些問題復制過去在你的博客里回答。

　　Set aside some quiet time with yourself, for 30-45 minutes or so. Now, write your answers to the following 6 questions:

　　給自己留出30到45分鐘的安靜時間，現在寫下對這6個問題的回答：

　　1. What are your biggest accomplishments this year? (Accomplishments here refer to any results you are proud of)

　　今年你最大的收獲是什么？(這里的收獲指任何你感到驕傲的結果)

　　2. What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned this year?

　　今年最大的教訓是什么？

　　3. On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with how you spent the year? (Or if you prefer giving grades, what grade would you give yourself for how this year turned out, between F- to A+?) Why?

　　如果讓你從1到10給自己打分，今年你對自己的滿意程度是幾分？(如果你喜歡分等級的話，那么從F-到A+你今年表現怎么樣呢？)為什么？

　　4. What do you want to accomplish next year, such that it’s your best year ever? Alternatively:

　　最想完成什么樣的目標讓明年成為最棒的一年？或者：

　　If it’s now Dec 31 of next year, what do you want to see in your life?

　　如果現在是2012年12月31日，你希望自己生活是怎樣的？

　　What does it take to make you feel a 10/10 satisfaction level at the end of next year?

　　到明年年底，什么事情會讓你對自己百分百滿意？

　　5. What new habits to cultivate that will help you to achieve your goals in Q4?

　　為了實現第四個問題中的目標，你應該培養那些新習慣？

　　6. What are your immediate next steps to achieve these goals?

　　為了實現這些目標，下一步你馬上會進行什么？

　　Take as much time as you need to write your review. These are the very same questions I use for my personal review every year, so I’ve no doubt that you’ll find them useful in yours.

　　寫年終總結別著急，慢慢來。每年我都會拿這些問題來問自己，所以我肯定你們會發現這些問題很有用。

　　If you want, you can get started with questions 1-3 first, which are more reflection questions for the year. Spend a couple of days to think about them, before moving to questions 4-6, which are about the year ahead.

　　如果愿意的話，可以先從問題1到3開始，這些都是更值得思考的年終問題。花上幾天時間想一想，然后再回答問題4到6，這些是關于你來年的計劃。