Welcome to the Brian D'Afinis show, where we explore the mindset's motivation and methodologies of success.

Tis the season to look back, reflect on the year gone and plan for the one coming.

As the team was reflecting over past episodes, we wanted to go back and share our very first Christmas show again with you.

It's full of such rich content that will help you end the decade well and prepare for the next.

So without further ado, let's listen in to Tis the season.

Today I have a special gift for you and the unit we're releasing this around a holiday season.

This is the gift I give myself every year. I would say of one discipline I've had for the past 30 years is I take the break between a little bit before Christmas and a little bit after New Year's.

And I do three different things that I'm going to talk to you about today. I reflect, I reorganize and I reload.

And I've done that throughout my career and it has served me extremely well so that I can properly put in perspective the year I just lived, what went well, what I learned, and then ultimately helps me to retool and reload.

So I come out the start of the New Year, Guns of Blazing as we say.

I also do this for my company for the past 20 years. I give hundreds of staff at the Fiending Company, a big old break, which is very common in Ireland where we come from but not so common in America.

So I tell folks that work for me, you don't have to believe what I believe, but you should be very happy that I believe what I believe because I'm celebrating Christmas and because of that, you all get a couple of weeks off.

They all tend to really be happy that I believe what I believe, what can you say?

So I'm going to give you all a gift today. This is my Christmas gift to you guys. It's been very, very helpful for me in my life.

It's certainly helped with the mindset and the motivation and the methodologies for my own success.

So I've three points to cover with you today, which is very common for me. The fact that they're all start with the same ladder is just helpful to remember it.

And it's so number one is we're going to talk about reflect number two. We're going to reorganize and number three. We are going to reload.

So let's talk about reflection. I think it's very important. First of all, that you don't forget where you've come from both in the long term and in the short term.

I heard a quote years ago that says the days are long and the years are short. And I absolutely see that with my own family.

Got six kids, very active, pursuing their life and it's amazing how time flies by. I was talking to my daughter, the other nice, and we went over to Ireland and we were in London.

And we were gone for almost three, four weeks in the summer. And when I was talking to her, she thought it was last year.

Now what was wild is when I was talking to her mother, she for a second thought it was last year too. You know what? The days are long and the years are short.

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