Last week I wrote about the concept of conducting a year-end review instead of making a new year’s resolution. I did a truncated version of the exercise relative to what I did at the beginning of 2022. One of the biggest things I saw was that I progressively became better at batching meetings and protecting periods of several hours in which do make real progress on work projects through most of the year but then began to let things slip. There were too many days in November and December that were chopped up by meetings over which I had some control, so I’m going to work to rein those back to minimize the stop-start nature of those days. After all, I am my own boss.

I also did quite a bit of traveling last year, but when I conducted my review I saw a marked difference in my enjoyment based on whether I was traveling alone or with a group of family or friends. I’ll try to take that lesson to heart in 2023, starting perhaps as soon as this weekend if things work out how I hope they will.

I haven’t set upon any mini goals yet, so it appears that January won’t get a self-improvement project this year. That may even be better since I’ll be starting a project well after most people will have given up on theirs. I hope that if you did set a new year’s resolution you are still on course. And if you have already fallen off the wagon, get back on it—there’s still time.