frkandris

As a member of the YearCompass team I also have a question, please do help us: many of you mention that "Close 2019, plan 2020" or "close the last year, plan the next year" sounds weird as a tagline. How would you phrase it? Sort out? Reflect on? ...?

(The reason why we use this is because the booklet was created in another language (Hungarian) first and we translated to English (and to many other languages) afterwards. In Hungarian this tagline makes perfect sense :) but of course that's pretty bad if it does not make sense in English.)

Thanks in advance, all your suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for the kind words.

We are doing the movement since 2012, I did some sort of reflection and planning a few years before that.

I don't read the past booklets (I wonder if there are people who do that?), I use it only for a few hours while I do the reflection and planning.

I enjoy the reflection part (it gives my the feeling of accomplishment and gratitude). Sometimes I send emails to people, thanking them that they were important parts of my life in the last year.

The output from the planning part are usually a few projects that I copy to my weekly planner.

Maybe I should ask my wife where the old YearCompasses are and reread them, good idea :)

ps. I'm also from the YearCompass core team, as you can see in the description of the post, but I have no idea how to get blue background to my name, sorry :)

It is not on the roadmap yet, but some mid-year activity definitely would be nice to have.

Thank you :) We did not stop, we are working on this project a few months every year (mostly from October till January).

ps. I'm also from the YearCompass core team, but I have no blue background to my name, sorry :)

What you mention sounds like a procastination problem :) There are many ways people deal with procastination:

• I usually go to a coffee shop (together with my wife) to do it (quiet environment, external motivation)
• Some people do it in smaller chunks (salami technique)
• Some people use the New Year as an external deadline so the Panic Monster could kick in
• Some people organise meetups with others and they do it together (external motivation)

It is different for everybody :) I hope you'll find a way to get to fill the booklet this year.

ps. I'm also from the YearCompass core team, as you can see in the description of the post, but I have no idea how to get blue background to my name, sorry :)