How to Succeed in 12 Months: Creating a Life You Love

chapter 15 Wrapping up and moving on

You set yourself a goal that has the potential to be life-changing. Whether you succeed or fail, it helps to evaluate the result so you can learn from what did and didn’t work. Regardless of the outcome, you want to tie up all the loose ends so you can start with a clean slate for the next project.

Sometimes we can carry over emotional baggage, such as guilt, a sense of failure, uncertainty or arrogance and overconfidence from one project to another, whether it succeeds or fails. This is normal, but it can taint your new project. Bring learnings, experience, confidence, motivation and positive anticipation — and leave the rest behind.

Here are some questions to ask at the end of each project or attempt ...