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2020 and the job: eight exercises that encourage courage

2020-12-28T10:50:04.689Z


What can we learn from this crazy year and how can we take positive impulses with us for 2021? Career coach Carmen Michaelis offers eight exercises that bring you further and encourage you.


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Writing it down helps: A review of the year can help you approach the next year differently and better

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2020. »It was a different year.

Upside down, strange, nothing like it was «, so sings the pop-rock band Silbermond.

This year was marked by the pandemic with its social, economic and health consequences.

Let's make the best of it - and let's learn from this unusual year, because 2021 will only be slightly different if we make use of the supposed new beginning.

The art of constructive review

How can you design a review of the year that will help you advance personally and professionally?

Switch to airplane mode and take your time and a notebook.

Find an undisturbed place.

Have your calendar ready as a reminder.

In the first step, go through the different reflection options, decide which one to smile at and start with it.

You can edit as many or as few as you like to track the year.

Here are eight perspectives for reflection that you can use for your own personal review:

1. What I am grateful for

Write everything down, the big and small things and occurrences.

Derive: What can I take away from this for the coming year?

How do I get this?

2. My successes

Look for your successes like a truffle pig.

Interview friends, family, and co-workers if you are having a hard time finding everything to be proud of.

Write everything down and make yourself aware: These are my strengths and resources that will also help me in the coming year and that I can rely on!

3. My failures

Over the course of the year, look back at what you did not succeed in, what requirements or tasks you may have failed at.

What do you learn from this for the future?

4. My lifeline

Take a piece of paper and draw a line in the middle as a timeline for the year 2020. In the left column, list everything that was good, made you satisfied and happy.

In the right column along the months, everything that made you sad, disappointed or inhibited.

Let it work: What are my findings for 2021?

What do I do as before or differently than before?

5. My challenges

To sum up: Which challenges would I have considered completely unlikely at the beginning of the year?

How did I master this anyway?

So what can I build on in the coming year?

6. My network

Observe and note: Which people did me particularly good this year?

Why?

Who did I take too little time for?

What do I want to catch up on, activate or increase in the coming year?

7. My personal script

If my year were to be made into a film: what would the film be called and what would the plot be?

Would it be a thriller, a drama, a comedy?

If I could rewrite it for 2020, what would I do differently?

What could the successful sequel to this film look like?

8. My goals

List and rate: What did I set out to do?

Which of these have I achieved and which have not?

What do I want to let go of, what do I want to pursue in 2021?

Who or what can support me?

Would you rather be more active in your review of the year - maybe together with others?

Here are some tips:

1. Thank you letters

When was the last time you wrote a letter by hand?

You can celebrate it and write a letter to special people who have accompanied and supported you this year.

A good ending for you, a nice moment for the recipient.

2. Online fuck-up night

Fuck-up colloquially means mishap or mistake.

According to the motto »cheerful failure«, all people report their mistakes and failures in 2020 with a fixed speaking time. Fuck-up nights are now institutionalized in a number of companies and organizations.

If we share our mistakes with others, it is easier not to take our failure so seriously and to emerge stronger from it.

We can often learn more from mistakes than from smoothly ironed out successes.

You can invite colleagues or friends to join.

3. End-of-the-year date

Meet friends (online) and share your findings from the year in review.

Speaking again, your experiences and insights can have a deeper impact.

Of course, you can also do the exercises directly with your friends and report to each other.

4. A year-end ritual

Allow yourself a moment to pause and create your own personal ritual.

Do it according to all the rules of your art: for example, write the things you want to let go of on pieces of paper and burn them.

Or build boats out of them, hike to the nearest body of water and let them go.

5. Photo safari

Pictures say more than a thousand words.

Pick up your smartphone and look through your photos from 2020.

We usually photograph remarkable moments.

Relive the year with the help of the photos.

Maybe you want to make a collage or a video out of it.

Your 2021 resolution: learn to dance in the rain instead of waiting for the storm to pass.

I wish you a year that is impressive. 

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Source: spiegel

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