How to conduct your own annual review. I would say this is only interesting if you are someone with a lot of irons in the fire or if you make and can keep specific plans. I do better with more abstraction, but if I get busier, this might be fun.
This might work better for those of us underperforming or stop and smell the roses or worry or plan and do nothing type people.
I’m not great with specific lists, especially when they are not essential. I have 6 main goals for this year. Obviously some of these will include specifics, but I don’t want to focus on the specifics as the goal since I tend to get lost with that.
1. Eliminate excess. I took about a week Internet and technology break. I need to manage my usage better and take breaks more often. I’ve cut down on stuff, but I need to maintain a simpler amount. I need to narrow my focus on a few hobbies and interests.
2. Improve health and wellness.
4. Create more. I need to just do things instead of plan. My streamlining goal will hopefully help me focus.
5. Aim for success in my life plans.
6. Work on self-education and research. Again, streamlining should help here. I previously had four languages on Duolingo; I’d like to aim at learning Spanish.
So, usually our family has a New Year’s Eve celebration, but this year we had a New Year’s Day celebration due to people seeing crazy drivers last year and the holiday eve falling on a Wednesday (prayer meeting) night.
I prefer this because people do not stay too late. I still found it quite loud and only came down later (we told people to come waaaaay too early even though we still had to prepare, so I was super not in the mood especially as I had stayed up until midnight . . . as required, of course).
Dad always makes Alton Brown’s yeast doughnut recipe and then we also had pork (cringe) and a few side dishes. I think we need more options next time. I think the doughnuts disappeared faster this year.
I played Ticket to Ride which I love although I never win (except my beginner’s luck a few months ago). I find it so much fun to plan and lay out tracks. I also sort of played/watched people play Settlers of Catan which is somewhat similar although it does not seem quite as fun.
I also tried my hand at a few rounds of Trivia Crack plus a few minutes of a board game similar to it. I think it is stupid. I am decently smart but do not know loads of facts, and I think this is one of those games that people think require intelligence but really require knowledge (NOT the same thing at all). I could memorize facts but that would be a complete waste of time, and I probably know plenty of more random ones myself. The choices in Trivia Crack were quite silly. I know this sounds bitter, but I really think it is worthless and easy and simply to make people feel smart which, as one of my sisters remarked, is why it is so popular. The Merriam Webster vocabulary and spelling games are much more interesting (and I do MUCH better on them . . . coincidentally).