Ahoy, friends!

We are hurtling towards the end of 2024 and it’s time to pause, open your journal, reflect… and dream BIG!

Today, I want to share something a little different with you - a formula which I hope will help you plan out the best fucking year of your life so far.

The end of the year offers a truly special time to disconnect from phones, social media, from the pressures of work and day-to-day life and to RECONNECT with your intuition and your vision for the future.

This is a time to reflect on the year just gone, to see what lessons you have learned, and to ponder what went well and what could have gone better.

And above all, to prepare yourself to forge your own destiny; to make the next year better than the one just gone.

We can be our own biggest champion or our own worst critic. Sometimes, we are both.

But we are masters of our fate, captains of our own ship… nobody is going to do it for us, the buck stops with US.

So I want to share a system I came up with that is probably the most valuable practice, outside of fitness, in my life.

For the last ten years, I’ve been tracking my daily habits and at the end of the month recording these digitally and then asking myself the same 8 questions…

• What went well this month?
• What could have gone better?
• What are my goals for this new month? (I try to make this as detailed and far-reaching as possible; painting into life the month I want to have)
• How am I doing on my fitness journey? (Wins, fails, notes on supplements/recovery/goals)
• How am I doing as an entrepreneur?
• How am I doing in my romantic relationships?
• Anything to report with family/friend relationships?
• Any new lessons or realizations to record?

Having ten FREAKING years of data on these questions is powerful… it provides an irrefutable stack of proof (to myself) that I am consistently working my introspective muscles and moving in the direction of being the person I want to be.

My personal hero is myself in 10 years time (I stole that from Matthew McConaughey but it’s true for me too)… I see clearly who I can be and having these end-of-month reviews has been a powerful tool; I’m better at celebrating wins, and it’s harder to hide from fuck-ups or weaknesses for more than a month.

An end-of-the-month review is a powerful thing, but what’s even more powerful is an end-of-year review…

There’s really no WRONG way to do this, just focus on pulling out your journal and…

• Listing out as many wins as possible
• Noting any negative habits you want to END for this new year
• Noting anywhere you are struggling which you need to address - this might be cutting out a toxic relationship, or eating less gummy snakes, we all have different issues.
• Jotting down extensive goals/hopes / dreams for this new year - you could get really granular and do monthly goals for the whole year (or monthly things to look forward to for the whole year - this is a good hack to enable you to work hard consistently; knowing you have ‘funsies’ queued up).

The end of the year is a powerful time and in many ways how we end the year very much sets the vibe for how the next year is going to unfurl - so spend your time wisely!

However you choose to spend the Christmas break, I’m sending you all my love :)

- Will

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