Review of 2017: pride and thanks

2017 was an intense year. As I'm writing this, I'm asking myself whether there are any years for me that aren't intense. Be that as it may, now that I'm looking back, I can see a lot that I'm proud of.

The word „pride“ sometimes has a bad reputation in Christian circles. And rightly so, if you mean presumptuous pride that fancies things you can't do anything about: For example, one's own appearance, intelligence, origin.

In contrast, appropriate pride is motivating. In other words, pride that recognises one's own contribution to an achievement and acknowledges it with gratitude and a little pride. This kind of pride gives us a boost. Ultimately, of course, everything we can do is a gift for which we can be grateful. For me, gratitude and pride are not mutually exclusive.

What I'm proud of looking back on 2017 - Top 5

There are a number of things that I am proud of. Some of them stand out in particular.

I have coached

Probably the most fulfilling thing this year was that coaching increased significantly from autumn onwards. Among other things, I am Coach for systemic short-term concepts. As the name suggests, they only take a short time. Nevertheless, I am often stunned with happiness when a deep-seated old knot, a fear or displaced self-perception dissolves in a single hour.

Just one of many coaching highlights in 2017: A woman who had been afraid of using a lift for 30 years wrote to me after the first !!!! coaching session in which we tackled the issue:

For years, no one had even got me near a lift. After the coaching session with you, I felt like trying it out to see if it works now. And on the way back, I tried the lifts several times on the S-Bahn. It worked.

Even though I have experienced similarly amazing things experience more often, I am stunned with happiness every time - and grateful for my sound training - and the miracles that occur with or without my help. And the people who trust me.

I have written

Sure, female authors write. It turned out to be quite a lot:

Writing is partly a gift that I was born with. I have probably inherited something in my ability to express myself that I can only be grateful for.

However, I am proud of the fact that I have moulded and trained my talent. And that I made time and space for writing in a very conscious and disciplined way this year - that wasn't always easy given the other challenges. That's why I'm particularly happy and proud.

I have taken the publishing house forward - with my team

In September 2016, the situation at the publishing house was so bad that we sent out a cry for help: „The water is up to our necks“!  A good year later, the situation is already looking better. We are currently reducing the excessive stock levels by 1% per month. That's not really exciting yet. But compared to 2016, when it was 2% for the whole year, it's already much better.

In addition to the solutions I came up with myself, I brought in external consultants. We are working on structure and processes. My team and I are working on better presenting the treasures we have developed in order to make them „shine“ more brightly. After all, what use are the best things if nobody can find them?.

One project was the renewal of the website on which we our online training courses . As is often the case with online projects, this took longer than we had hoped... but we managed to complete the site just before the end of the year. Just take a look for yourself there to.

Joy and pride and mannequinsI spent time with friends

Friendships are wonderful - but they take time to nurture. At the beginning of the year, I resolved to cultivate friendships more actively this year because Friendship Its importance is so high for me that I have written several titles about the art of building friendships. Two Impulse booklets, and the beautiful book Friends. Plain and simple. 

That's why I've been living friendship with all my might this year and I'm proud that I've managed to spend time with my closest friends regularly despite having a full life. There are a small number of people with whom I have a deep dialogue almost every week, and a few others with whom it is less frequent.

There were also many special friendships in 2017: I celebrated my 50th birthday like crazy. Not just with two parties - with my family and friends. But also with lots of individual special activities with loved ones: Concerts, delicious food, lots of coffees. Most recently in December with friends from Rotterdam, who gave me the gift of travelling to them for my birthday.

I have tidied up and minimised

What I'm most proud of is that I've done a lot of physical tidying up in the last few months.

  • 1620 Things (from candles to socks to crockery) from my flat. I want to reach 2000 by the end of the year!
  • Even more violent: 18 kilos of paper with ideas of what I could do. I have implemented many ideas, but in the almost 18 years since the company was founded, I have also accumulated 18 kilos of notes on ideas that I have not implemented due to a lack of time, finances or energy... or because the next idea was just around the corner before I could realise it.
  • Files...hundreds. I haven't counted here, but in December I deleted 5 - 20 files a day on my PC or combined two files into one, reduced image files, etc. I haven't yet reached my goal of having nothing unloved or unused on my PC. But I'm getting closer every day.

Now I am a little proud and above all very grateful!

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