Especially in the beginning of a new year, people want to forget everything that they went through, and they just want to start fresh. But I do think it's important to reflect on how your previous year went and to think about what's been happening in your life. In the past year, or just in the past couple of months, you can write down the things that you are really proud of achieving this year. Things that brought you a lot of happiness, things that you bought that were really important trips that you did with your family, or anything else that comes to your mind and then also reflect on the things that didn't went so well. What made you fail that goal that you set for yourself? What negative emotions Did you feel last year or in the last couple of months?

What bad habits did you start or keep, you can add your own questions to this reflection because it's important to make sure that this process is your own process. So it makes sense that you can come up with your own questions and then later answer them, it's really important to get an overview of how things went. So you can make sure that this new year, you will do everything that you possibly can to make everything better. So Tim Ferriss wrote a blog post where he goes through a process that he follows each year to review his previous year consists on a few simple steps that might really help you out. So split a sheet of paper into two columns, positive one and negative one, grab your calendar and go through the tasks activities and people where you spend your time on. If that task or person triggered a positive emotion, then write them in the positive column.

If they triggered a negative emotion, add them to the negative column. After going through your calendar or planner, set aside 20% of each column that produced the most impactful emotions, both positive and negative. So you can just select 20%, like one or two, depending on the length of your list. Now using your answers, scheduled more positive activities, tasks or events with those people or things that created those positive emotions last year, and don't forget, it's not on your calendar, it's not real. So make sure you commit yourself to do more of those things that caused you happiness, repeat the same process, but this time, using the 20% of the negative calling, and add those events, or people to when not to do list. Make sure you see this list every day.

So you actually won't forget if any person or any activity or task made you miserable. Why do you keep spending your time on it? So make sure you avoid this column and make sure you schedule more activities. On this one