I’m working with a personal evaluation system that I received from my network marketing Team Leader. It’s part of a weekly leadership call that I’m taking part in as I make my 90-day run for a promotion. The information comes from R. Schefren and talks about “How to Make 2011 Your Best Year Yet.”

Coach Parisha Taylor, known to some (including myself) as Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha, always encouraged those of us working with her to learn about ourselves through network marketing. It’s the total business and personal development project, really. I find the exercise below very much in line with what she has shared with us regarding taking stock of our successes and failures – and how to learn from both an move forward to create greater success in our business ventures, our volunteer activities, and all aspects of our personal and spiritual lives.

“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” –Oprah Winfrey

Here are five questions to answer:

1. What were your greatest accomplishments last year?

2. What were your greatest disappointments last year?

3.  How did you limit yourself last year, and how can you remove those limits in the coming year?

4. What did you learn from your answers to the first three questions?

5. How can you use this information to make the coming year your best year yet?

In addition to listing answers to Questions 1 and 2, we’re encouraged to go back and write out “take-aways” – conclusions or summaries from what we’ve written

I found this exercise extremely helpful in helping to pinpoint my activity – and in some cases, lack of it – regarding my business. But it also gave me a way to quantify that information, rather than personalize it in terms of “good” or “bad.”  It’s a basic inventory that is helping me shape my strategy for being more successful in my business in 2011.

Coach Parisha Taylor stresses journaling to get a clear picture of what we want, and why. The more specific we can be, the greater the probability of actualizing those goals.

By taking an honest look at out previous year’s performance we can make whatever “course corrections” are necessary to yield more desirable results and make sure we re-create that which delivered profound success. Either way, we have the opportunity to “begin anew” and “become more” at any time.

“Whatever you fill in your day planners and until you make and set your goals, the “time” is open and possibilities are unending! So you can begin new and more profound in truth and powerful postulates now. You can get more in life, if you become more.” –Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor

 

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