高起点开始下一年

　　Last but not least, your annual review will help you to start the next year on a high note. As I’m going to share later in the post, doing your review includes setting your goals for the next year. For this year 2011, my one single biggest goal was to build this blog. So this year, while other people were figuring out what to make out of their year, I was a person on a mission. By mid-year I had already exceeded some of my goals, and now that it’s the end of the year, I’ve accomplished what I had set out to do at the beginning, and more.

　　最后，年终总结会帮你从一个高起点开始下一年的工作和生活。正如我稍后要跟大家分享的，年终总结会包括你下一年的目标。2011年我的最大目标是建好这个博客，所以在这一年，当其他人还在找寻到底该干些什么的时候，我已经是一个有任务的人了。年中的时候我就已经超额完成目标，现在到年末，我已经完成了年初的目标，甚至做的更多。

Exercise: Write Your Year End Review for 2011

练习：写下你的2011年终总结

Let’s get started on your year end review for this year!

从今年开始写下你的年终总结吧！

　　Take out your life handbook, or if you don’t have your life handbook, take out any notebook or blank piece of paper. If you have a blog, you can copy the questions and answer them in your blog entry.

　　拿出生活手册，如果没有的话，就随便拿本笔记本或是张白纸。如果有博客，也可以把这些问题复制过去在你的博客里回答。

　　Set aside some quiet time with yourself, for 30-45 minutes or so. Now, write your answers to the following 6 questions:

　　给自己留出30到45分钟的安静时间，现在写下对这6个问题的回答：

　　1. What are your biggest accomplishments this year? (Accomplishments here refer to any results you are proud of)

　　今年你最大的收获是什么？(这里的收获指任何你感到骄傲的结果)

　　2. What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned this year?

　　今年最大的教训是什么？

　　3. On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with how you spent the year? (Or if you prefer giving grades, what grade would you give yourself for how this year turned out, between F- to A+?) Why?

　　如果让你从1到10给自己打分，今年你对自己的满意程度是几分？(如果你喜欢分等级的话，那么从F-到A+你今年表现怎么样呢？)为什么？

　　4. What do you want to accomplish next year, such that it’s your best year ever? Alternatively:

　　最想完成什么样的目标让明年成为最棒的一年？或者：

　　If it’s now Dec 31 of next year, what do you want to see in your life?

　　如果现在是2012年12月31日，你希望自己生活是怎样的？

　　What does it take to make you feel a 10/10 satisfaction level at the end of next year?

　　到明年年底，什么事情会让你对自己百分百满意？

　　5. What new habits to cultivate that will help you to achieve your goals in Q4?

　　为了实现第四个问题中的目标，你应该培养那些新习惯？

　　6. What are your immediate next steps to achieve these goals?

　　为了实现这些目标，下一步你马上会进行什么？

　　Take as much time as you need to write your review. These are the very same questions I use for my personal review every year, so I’ve no doubt that you’ll find them useful in yours.

　　写年终总结别着急，慢慢来。每年我都会拿这些问题来问自己，所以我肯定你们会发现这些问题很有用。

　　If you want, you can get started with questions 1-3 first, which are more reflection questions for the year. Spend a couple of days to think about them, before moving to questions 4-6, which are about the year ahead.

　　如果愿意的话，可以先从问题1到3开始，这些都是更值得思考的年终问题。花上几天时间想一想，然后再回答问题4到6，这些是关于你来年的计划。