End of the year accounting

A new tool for anyone who wants to plan for next year!

Hello darlings

I hope your December has ended with celebration, fun, and rest! Now that those pesky holidays are over for me, I can get to MY sacred time: the new year and all the resolutions!

This includes picking a word of the year (Purpose for me this year!), thinking about what I want more and less of next year (see below for an example), and considering what kinds of changes I might want to make!

I also make resolutions because, duh. I love a goal, I love tracking, I love a momentous occasion. As I’ve mentioned, I try to set resolutions that will let me live a full and fun life of joy. For example, in 2024, one of my resolutions was to drink champagne on 50 different occasions and I checked number 50 off THIS WEEKEND! I knew I could do it (there were some doubters out there!)

And because I can't leave well enough alone, I am always looking for the next thing - new planner, new app, new ritual, new habits. (These work approximately 5% of the time if I’m fucking lucky). As a part of my process for the new year, I get a little wiggly and stir crazy and want to do something DIFFERENT. I wrote last time about my quest to start new processes before the end of the year to help with this.

Start before you are ready

Because people KNOW me, my friend Shannon sent me the Year Compass, a free workbook that guides you through questions about last year and goals for the next year. Because I can’t turn my academic planner brain off, I immediately thought: I should adopt this for academic goal setting! So I did and here you go:

The Year Compass for Academics. Use, adapt, reorganize as you see fit.

Also available in a pdf here if that’s easier!

Don’t forget, you ask me an anonymous question here!

MHAWS NGL AMA

Ask all your planning questions! ask all your personal questions! ask all your weird questions! I’ll start answering them in 2025!

So take the Year Compass for Academics, fill it out, use it, save it for August, ignore this entirely, take a nap, eat a piece of pie, ask me a question, love your people, and have a wonderful start to 2025.

XOXOX

Mirya