Your Year Wrapped: How to Do a Personal Year-In-Review
Updated December 2024 ( Originally posted December 2020)
The end of the year is a great time to reflect on what you want to celebrate, what you want to cultivate, what you’re ready to release, and what you’re ready to receive. These simple steps and inspiring questions are just what you need to complete your own personal year-in-review today!
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What is a Personal Year-In-Review?
A personal year-in-review is a meaningful and impactful way to reflect on the past year.
Taking a few minutes to explore what’s happened (without dwelling on the past) will help you celebrate all the goodness in your life. It will also help you choose what you want to focus on in the next year.
As you reflect, listen to your intuition and remember:
There’s no need to force or effort your reflections.
Let this be fun, easy, and uplifting.
You can’t get this right or wrong. It’s your year in review, so make it your own!
Consider how much time you want to spend and set a pace that feels good.
Before you begin, grab your favorite journal or a blank doc. Get some snacks and a delicious drink. Put on a playlist and burn some incense. Or take yourself to a vibey coffee shop or hotel lobby bar. Do whatever you want to set the mood for reflection!
Step One: What Are the Main Areas of Your Life?
Begin your year-in-review by naming the main areas of your life. There’s no need to rank or prioritize these. Choose anything and order them however you want. Here’s a prompt to help get you started:
What are the different areas of your life where you show up or exist?
When I did this in 2022, mine were: business, style, health, motherhood + family, community, and spirit + self. My list for 2024 is self, family, friendships, work, and fun. Remember there’s no right or wrong, so go with your gut and then flow onto step two.
Step Two: Ask Yourself These 4 Questions
Once you have the main areas, ask yourself these four questions for each:
What do I want to celebrate?
What do I want to cultivate?
What am I ready to release?
What am I ready to receive?
As you’re reflecting and reviewing your year, notice themes and trends. Go deeper when something piques your interest. Let go of whatever isn’t serving you in this process.
Now see what you feel inspired to do next. What is your intuition telling you? Do you want to share your reflections? Burn them? Place them where you’ll see them? Or are you ready to do some manifesting?
Step Three: Manifesting In the Year Ahead
After choosing your main areas and answering the four questions, your year in review is complete! Now it’s time to use your reflections as inspiration to start manifesting!
Take a few deep, cleansing breaths, and fast-forward to a year from now.
See yourself sitting down at the end of the new year. Ask yourself the same four questions in each of the main areas of your life. What are you celebrating and cultivating? What are you releasing and receiving?
What does “you one year from now” want you to know? What does she want you to do?
Manifest more with these articles and podcast episodes:
→ How to Manifest Your Dreams and Goals Using a Journal
→ How to Get Better at Manifesting
→ 16 Manifestation Journal Prompts to Bring More Alignment and Flow to Your Life
→ My Experience at Abraham Hicks: Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and Magic
A Year of Calm for You
You don’t need another self-help audiobook. What you need is to listen to your intuition!
A Year of Calm is your ticket to ending overwhelm and thriving in your life.
My Year-In Review Reflections from 2022
Press play to listen to my podcast episode from 2022, where I shared what I was celebrating, cultivating, releasing, and receiving in the six main areas of my life. I hope tuning in gives you the nudge to do your own personal year in review!
In Business
Celebrating: hiring Jessica Chandler, our Community Experience Curator.
Cultivating: a wider range of offerings and ways to engage with this work.
Releasing: hiring outside experts beyond my existing team. Huge thanks to everyone who helps bring my projects to life, especially my photographer Angela Doran, and the editors at Amplify Boutique.
Receiving: aligned connections, invitations, and new clients.
In Style
Celebrating: elevating home style with Jenna Barton Interiors and clothing style with Natalie Frazier - The Closet Curator.
Cultivating: enjoying what I have.
Releasing: perfection or the need to fix things.
Receiving: aligned ways to share my home and a little more sexy style in 2023.
In Health
Celebrating: nursing all three babies to 1 year old (or more)! Flowing with ups and downs in my body this year.
Cultivating: vitality, longevity, timelessness in my body.
Releasing: perfection or the need to fix things.
Receiving: more joy and ease.
In Motherhood + Family
Celebrating: traveling as a family with three children for the first time. My children’s individual interests and gifts.
Cultivating: patience, presence, and self-mothering.
Releasing: the desire to always know “what’s next?”
Receiving: laughter, snuggles, and the space within to receive them.
In Community
Celebrating: friendships and time with family.
Cultivating: more meaningful conversations and time together in person.
Releasing: my desire to fill my calendar and being “the person to make plans.”
Receiving: invitations or space. Both are so nourishing!
In Spirit + Self
Celebrating: thriving! I am feeling really connected to my intuition. When things or problems arise, I’m finding flow through the struggle.
Cultivating: JOY. FUN. MAGIC. BEAUTY.
Releasing: tired habits and old patterns in conversation.
Receiving: serendipity, magic, alignment, and inspired action.
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About Kaileen Elise Sues
Hi, I'm Kaileen! Intuition coach, host of the Celebrate Cultivate podcast, and mom of three.
Until I found my inner voice, I was a perfectionist always on the edge of overwhelm. This practice changes everything.
That’s why I’m here to help you access your intuition. So you can heal old wounds, manifest magic, and find calm in the chaos of daily life.
