Welcome to Practically Happy, the podcast that helps you apply the science of well-being to your everyday life.

I'm your host, Miranda Anderson, a public health nurse, master of applied positive psychology, and mom of three,

here to help you access some strategies for lasting happiness and fulfillment.

Each episode is a candid conversation, meant to help you feel less alone in the ups and downs of your everyday life.

Listen in for some tools to feel more practically happy.

Hey there, welcome back. This is episode number 315 of Practically Happy, and I'm your host, Miranda

Anderson. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanza. All of the

dates converge this year. I read an Instagram post that said it's only five times every

hundred years that Hanukkah and Christmas Day converge. I don't know if that's true. Instagram isn't

the highest source of, you know, news. but fun if it is and that this was that year.

Today's episode is about planning for the year ahead and before we get to the planning, spending

some time reflecting on the year that we've had. I have recorded, this is now the seventh season of the podcast,

I've recorded more than seven episodes about planning our year. And they've all been a little bit

different. And I actually had planned to re-air one of these encore episodes, a favorite

planning episode from the past, and realize that my perspective this year is really different than it has been.

And also that just the places that I've been in 2019 and 2022 and all of these different years that I've recorded episodes and kind of shared about what was going on feel a little bit out of season just because so much of my life has changed this year.

So rather than share an

encore, I just wanted to mention some of those because there's really good tactical, practical

information in them if you wanted to listen back. Several of them include printables where you can

pull a handout. I'm also going to mention a tool that you can use today for this process of reflection on the year that we've just gone through and projection for the year ahead.

But first wanted to just start with some mentions of those older episodes.

These will all also be linked in the show notes.

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