What guides your year?
Osama Natto
I design Visual Models to Guide Founders and Executives in Situations where they need the Clarity to Decide and the Confidence to Make Power Moves
Since 2016, I start my year with a series of questions. The questions will serve as my general guidance throughout the year to guide my actions, decisions, thoughts, and relationships. Here is the set of questions if you are interested:
What will I name this year?
What is the theme for this year?
What is the tagline for this year?
Which title do I use to address myself when speaking to myself?
How do I want to exit this year?
What values will I honor this year?
What topics would I like to explore this year?
What questions am I seeking answers to?
What music will I listen to this year?
What pictures represent this year?
What am I leaving behind in the last year?
What are prayers will I pray this year?
I start by creating a folder on my main device, which syncs with all my other devices regardless of OS to make it easy to access the folder at any point or work on multiple devices on the same folder instantly
I name the folder with the year number and name the sub-folders as follows:
Visuals
Prayers
Research
Money
Music
Knowledge
Cards
I use these folders to keep everything related to that year, for my personal matters.
It's the first folder I open in the morning. My first four hours of the day are guided by what is in those sub-folders, what I read in those first hours is only from those folders, what I write, design or draw in those four hours, is preserved in those folders.
I have been using this method to guide me throughout the year for the past five years and it's very effective for me. I have managed to raise my quality of life, improve my relationships with my loved ones, and increase my focus on productive business relationships.
One final key point that I would like to mention, I use this method as a general guide, not as a strict plan, because that will put a lot of pressure on me and it is counterproductive it also limits the exploration of new possibilities.
Why am I sharing this now? Because this year's theme calls for it. This is an actual implementation of one of the action items that emerged from those previous questions.
Do you have a specific way you design to guide your year? Share it with us, please