How to Do the "Yearly Check-in" to Start off 2024 as a United Team: Episode 324
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The one thing that the beginning of a year allows you to do is draw a clear line in the sand. It's a psychological distinction to review your last 12 months and see how well you executed on your game plan. Some do this for work, for individual achievements, as sports teams, and it is very powerful to do for your marriage.
In this episode you will hear how to go through a Yearly Check-in to start off your new year. This will allow you to reestablish your core values, set your vision and goals, and remove any old distractions and barriers that didn't serve you from the previous year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.2 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team. |
| 0:10.4 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.5 | And welcome to 2024. This episode is about how to do the yearly check-in to start off your |
| 0:23.4 | 24 as a United team. So when we say yearly check-in, this is one of three templates that |
| 0:29.7 | comes in our family meeting guide, one of our most popular resources. We'll share more about that |
| 0:34.1 | later. But if you followed us a while, you've heard us talk about |
| 0:38.4 | these check-ins. Now, we recommend a shorter weekly check-in, a quarterly check-in, so four times a year, |
| 0:46.2 | and then once a year, and thankfully you're listening to this right around the new year, |
| 0:51.6 | it's a great way to either end the year, start the year, or if you happen to hear |
| 0:55.2 | this in June, go ahead and do it in June too, right? Because it's about resetting. Ultimately, |
| 1:01.0 | a year can fly by and we don't want the next year to be exactly like this year, usually. There's |
| 1:07.0 | things we want to shift, pivot, there's new goals. There's new circumstances in our lives. |
| 1:12.4 | And so on a yearly timeline, we need to sit down together. And you're going to hear us give some |
| 1:17.9 | suggestions to make this a fun check-in. This isn't like, oh, we have to do this annual business |
| 1:23.3 | meeting and I'm not looking forward to this. No, this is exciting. This is for you to check that the two |
| 1:28.9 | of you are on track. I mean, we don't know how much life we really have, you guys. I know that |
| 1:34.7 | sounds really serious, but this is a way to really make sure are we aligned? Are we heading in the |
| 1:40.9 | direction that we intend to because we don't know. Do we have one year left? Do we |
| 1:45.6 | have five? Do we have ten? Are we blessed with many decades more of life? And of course, we want |
| 1:50.8 | that life to be together as a united team. And these are different, by the way, from the weekly to |
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