Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking

about celebrating you in 2021. Hey everyone, happy Wednesday. We are in the very last month of 2021. Can you believe it? I am looking forward to 2022 as we make our way

slowly out of this pandemic. I'm so excited. I feel like we're finally climbing out of it.

For today's episode, I wanted to encourage all of you to do an exercise that I'm going to talk about today. And I know as we are

heading into the new year, there's this trend to set new goals and think about the things that we

want to accomplish in the new year, which is great. I love setting goals with people. But before we

set goals, I think that it is really important to examine the past year first.

Okay. And I don't mean examine in the terms of like picking it apart, but really meaning that you

find and think about the ways in which you have grown and the person that you have become

over the past year. I was working with a client this

past week and towards the end of my programs when I'm working with a client one-on-one,

we start to get into setting some goals and figuring out how to accomplish them. And I could

tell that my client, she just wasn't really into setting any goals yet.

It just wasn't exciting to her. And so I was like, what if we went through each month of this past

year and wrote down what you learn and accomplished each month? And she has worked really hard

on some mental wrestles this year.

And so she got really excited to just kind of go back and look at the past year and see how much she has grown.

Because she has grown so much.

When we look back at our past, what our brains actually want to see are all the ways in which we have failed and the things we have messed up on

and reasons for not being able to do what we want to do in the future. It's almost like we use

our past to dictate who we are going to be in the future. And our brains like to gather up

all the little pieces of our past and put them into a nice

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