Reflection Questions for 2021

It’s December first, and I’m all geared up for my December reflections! As promised, here are 30 prompts for reflecting on 2021. I worked on the first three this morning. My goal is to work through these 30 in the first 15 days of December and then spend the last half of the month working on looking ahead to the new year. So I’ll be posting looking ahead prompts in the middle of the month. Enjoy, and leave a comment to let me know what you are getting out of working through the prompts!

1. What have you gotten interested in this year?
2. What have you read?
3. What have you learned?
4. How are you different now than you were at the beginning of the year?
5. If you had to give this year a theme, what would it be? Is there one word that describes your year?
6. Who has impacted your life this year?
7. What were your New Year’s hopes and dreams this year? How did that pan out? Be gentle with yourself!
8. What did you accomplish this year?
9. What have you done effectively this year?
10. What have you done ineffectively?
11. Where have you been spinning your wheels?
12. What emotions have been dominant this year?
13. What emotions have you avoided this year?
14. Did you create any new habits this year? Are they ones you want to continue with?
15. Where have you been disappointed this year?
16. Where have your expectations been fulfilled?
17. What do you wish had been different this year?
18. Is there one thing that has to change as you move out of this year?
19. What has been happening this year that you would like to keep happening? (adapted from SFBT’s Formula First Session Task, de Shazer 1984)
20. What are you grateful for this year?
21. How would your friends or family describe you this year?
22. Looking back, what do you wish you had done less of? More of?
23. If you keep going on the trajectory you’ve been on this year, where will you end up in 5 years? 10?
24. How do the choices you made this year line up with your values?
25. What is left unfinished as this year draws to a close?
26. Have any secret dreams been left unattended this year?
27. What have you built that you would like to keep building on?
28. What is your favorite memory from this year? Is there any way to have more of that happen?
29. If this year were a color, what color would it be?
30. What happy accidents happened this year that you might like to turn into something intentional?