Book Review: Your Best Year Yet!
January 4th, 2015 by Morna
Your Best Year Yet!
Jenny Ditzler
Grand Central Publishing; $13.95
One of my favorite planning resources is Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler. I have been using this little book for years and recommend it each year, getting back lots of comments about how useful it is. The book offers a framework to define your personal values, identify the various roles you play and create goals for those roles. Here are some of Jinny’s questions plus a couple of my own:
What did I accomplish?
What were my biggest disappointments?
What did I learn?
How do I limit myself and how can I stop?
What are my goals for next year?
Where do I need to find education or support to get there?
How can I make sure I achieve my top goals?
I find one of the most empowering aspects of Jinny’s system is the look at the successes of the year. It allows you focus on your successes and not get weighed down by what did not work. It also lets you get off the treadmill of working on your business to see if you really are on course.
Here is a quote from the book I particularly like: “We must prepare our soil before we’re ready to plant the seeds we want to grow in the new year.”
Look for this book at your favorite quilt or book retailer. Here’s a link to Amazon if you would like to learn more about the book.
