Hello everybody and welcome to the final coaches corner of the year and I'm really

excited about this episode because I'm going to talk to you a little bit about how to wrap up 2018 and step into 2019

with more excitement and more awareness. It seems like at the end of every year we're like oh my gosh I can't

wait for this year to be over the next year is going to be the best year ever and the end

of the year comes as a bit of a relief rather than a real time of reflection.

So instead of making it a time of relief and thinking, all right, well, this year wasn't

exactly what I wanted, so hopefully next year will be better.

Let's really make it a time of reflection.

Let's really look at how the challenges from 2018 helped us grow and also be mindful of all the blessings of the past year.

Really you accomplished a lot.

Maybe there were some goals that you said at the beginning of the year that didn't exactly manifest the way that you thought that they would, but that's okay.

There were probably a lot of unexpected things that you had to deal with, given intensity of 2018 and there were probably many

blessings that came forward that perhaps you're not giving enough attention

and acknowledgement too. We are far more critical of ourselves than we are acknowledging and from my point of view we all need to be a lot more acknowledging of the strength and the resilience and the courage that we all have.

So let's take a look back at 2018.

I posted something a few weeks ago

about the meme that was going around last year

at the end of the year that said 2016 was the Caterpillar, 2017 was the

cocoon and 2018 was the year of the butterfly. We all thought whooo we're gonna fly

in 2018 and what we found is that it took a lot of energy to get some

blood into our wings and it wasn't kind of till the end of the year that many of us felt like

all right I've got some momentum and I've spoken about this in a

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