年终总结的六个方面

(Written and published on Dec 22, 2010)

年终总结的六个方面

（完成于2010.12.22）

Merry Christmas everyone! The year end is coming, and in a week’s time it’ll be 2011! Are you ready for the new year? Are you ready for a year of excitement and new challenges?

祝大家圣诞快乐！年底又到来了，不到一周就要到2011年了。准备好迎接新年了么？准备好迎接新一年的挑战和兴奋了么？

Before we move on to the new year, it’s high time for all of us to do a review for the year. Regular readers would know that I do a review every year at PE. It has become an annual affair now, one which I look forward to in

excitement :D. I first started the practice of doing annual reviews several years ago, and today I do it both on a personal level as well as with my 1-1 coaching clients.

在我们迎接新的一年之际，让我们先来回顾下这一年做的事情。老读者们都知道，我每年都会在PE上作总结。（译者注：PE,personal execellence，网站名）。现在这都成了每年的惯例了，而且我对此还很期待。我几年前开始做年终总结的，今天我既以一个个人的角色，也以一个教导者的角色来分享我的经验。

To me, doing this annual review is like getting a report card. I remember when I was back in school, I would be excited when it was time to get our results back, especially when I had prepared for the exams and gave them my all. It’s no different with my annual review – except these results aren’t for my studies – they’re bigger. They’re for my life.

对我来说，做这样的年终总结就像拿了一个反馈卡。在学生时代，在要知道我们的成绩的时候是很兴奋的，尤其是当我全力以赴准备考试的时候。这和我每年的年终总结没什么区别——除了这不是我的学习成绩——他们更重要。年终总结是服务于我的人生的。

In today’s post, I want all of you to do your year end review for 2010 and share it in the comments area. I’ll be sharing mine shortly in a blog post later this week, after everyone does theirs.

在今天的文章中，我希望每个人都能分享自己的总结然后给与回复。我会在每个人回复之后的晚些时候，写出我的年终总结。

Importance of Year End Reviews

年终总结的重要性

那为什么年终总结很重要？这有四个简单的原因

So why is it important to do a year end review? There are 4 simple reasons:

1. Draw lessons from the year

1.从一年中吸取经验教训

What have you experienced this year? What have you learned from them? With every experience we face, there are important things to learn. We can either let these incidences pass us by, or we can stop to understand, internalize them, and draw lessons from them. Life is your school, and the lessons are dressed up as your everyday incidences. You don’t want to be living year after year without learning from your experiences. That’s just sleepwalking your life away.

你今年经历了什么？从中学到了什么？我们所面对的每一个经验，都有值得我们学习的地方。我们当然可以选择不管这些事情，当然我们也可以停下来去思考，去消化并从中吸取经验。生活就是你的学校，教训经验假扮成那些每天的琐事。你不想一年一年什么都没学到吧，就像日子在梦游中度过一样。

There are a lot of lessons which I learn every year. Looking back at my review for 2007, one of the biggest lessons I learned is that our reactions to life’s situations is a choice, and it’s up to how we make out of situations we encounter.

This realization came after a highly intense period at my job. At that time I was already a positive person, but the situation was so out of control that it really made me negative. It was after a short period of feeling miserable that I realized that the reality was such and it was up to me to make the best out of it. I could either sit and bitch about it

which would do absolutely nothing to change the situation, or I could take action and make the best out of it. This small shift in my mindset created a big shift in my reality – it made me a lot more proactive and solution-oriented. It made me realize that many of us generate unnecessary baggage with negative situations in life, and it’s all about taking action to create the lives that we want. Happiness is truly a choice.

我每年都可以学到很多。看看我2007年的总结，我收获的最大一课是―我们对生活环境的态度是一种选择‖，并且由我们解决问题的方式决定。这种感受来自我高度紧张工作的一段时间后。那是我觉得我已经是个很积极的人了，但当时的情况完全出乎我的意料并使我变得消极。在一段短暂的困惑后，我发现现实就这样而且怎么样最好的解决它由我来决定。我当然可以做下来骂娘当然这对改变现实没什么用，我或者可以采取行动把它用最好的方式解决了。我思维定势的一个小小改变，对我生活起了大大的作用——它使我更主动，更从方法上找解决问题。它使我认识到我们往往从消极情况中产生不必要的负担，并且我们只要采取行动就能创造出我们想要的生活。快乐是个好选择。

Because I would write down lessons I learned each time (in my life handbook), I could then build upon my

learnings. Rather than deja vuing through life situations, every time I would think about how I could apply what I had learned earlier and how I could do something different. As a result, I kept moving forward in my growth.

因为我写下了我每一次的教训（在我的生命小手册上），我能在我的所得中成长。我每次在总结后都会想我该怎么改正错误，怎么做的更好而不是一次又一次的犯错。结果就是，我不断地成长。

2. Wrap up what you’ve done this year

2忘记你今年做的事情

Many things can happen in a year and this is the perfect time to wrap them up. Were there any ups and downs? Did you get a promotion? Did you recently quit your job and joined a new workplace? Did you just start up a business? Did you move to a new place? Did you just end an unhappy relationship? Did you move on from a bad partnership? Any major events took place? Or perhaps there are nothing significant that happened?

每年有很多事情发生，这是你忘记以前的事情最好时机。那没有一些起起落落么？你进步了么？你辞职后找到新工作了么？你还是创业了？搬到新地方了么？结束那段不愉快的感情了么？从不好的伙伴关系中走出来了么？有大事么？亦或许是什么都没发生？

This is the time to wrap up the year. It’s time to let go of past baggage, tie up the loose ends, tidy up your feelings, and get ready for what’s ahead.

该忘记他们了！让那些负担走远，打扫干净那些尾巴，收起难过的情绪，准备迎接将要到来的吧！

3. Regain focus

3找到重点

After working for a few years, you’d find that the years sort of just start to blend into each other. Soon it’s hard to tell one year apart from the next. Subsequently, it’s so easy to fall into a routine without being conscious of it.

Sometimes I hear people commenting that they’re not sure what exactly they’ve been doing with the past few years of their lives, because everything just seems like the same.

工作几年后发现，你就会发现年与年之间都有一种混起来的感觉。很快就很难区分开这一年与上一年的区别。然后，在不知不觉中落入以前的老套子。有时候我听人说他们过去几年都不知道在做什么，因为每件事都那么相似。

It’s just like driving. When you’re driving in a car, it can be hard to see where you are and where you’re heading to. On the other hand, pausing for a short moment to look at the map can be amazingly helpful. Where are you right now?

How far have you traveled? Where do you want to go to? Doing so helps you to regain focus.

Like I mentioned above, doing my annual review is like getting the report card for my life. How do I grade myself for this year? Do I give myself an A+? A? B? C? D? or even F? This assessment reminds me if I have lived this year the way I had wanted to.

这就像开车一样。当你开车的时候，很难找到你在哪和知道你想去哪。另一方面，停下来看看地图会发现怎么这么有帮助。你现在在哪？走了多远？要去哪？这么做可以让你找到重点。

4. Start the next year on a high note

4.高调开始新一年

Last but not least, your annual review will help you to start the next year on a high note. As I’m going to share later in the post, doing your review includes setting your goals for the next year. For this year 2010, my one single biggest goal was to build PE. I had many other goals, but they were secondary to building the blog. So this year, while other people were figuring out what to make out of their year, I was a person on a mission. By mid-year I had already exceeded some of my goals, and now that it’s the end of the year, I’ve accomplished what I had set out to do at the beginning, and more.

最后一点，但不是最不重要的一点。每年的总结会帮助新一年的高调开始。正如我将在稍后和大家分享的，作总结包括对下一年的目标。对2010年来说，我最大的事情是建好PE。我也有很多其他目标，但是都让位于建设这个博客之后。所以这一年，其他人在找自己该干什么的时候，我已经有任务了。年中我已经超额完成任务，现在已经是年末了，我也达到了自己的目标，甚至是更多。

Exercise: Write Your Year End Review for 2010

练习：为2010年写年终总结

Let’s get started on your year end review for this year!

在年末写年终总结吧！

Take out your life handbook, or if you don’t have your life handbook, take out any notebook or blank piece of paper. If you have a blog, you can copy the questions and answer them in your blog entry.

拿出你的人生小本本，如果没有，拿个本或者一张白纸也行。如果有博客，把问题和你的答案复制进去吧。 Set aside some quiet time with yourself, for 30-45 minutes or so. Now, write your answers to the following 6 questions:

需要安静30到45分钟。现在，写下以下六个问题的答案。

1.What are your biggest accomplishments this year? (Accomplishments here refer to any results you are proud of) 1 .今年的最大收获？（收获是指任何你感到骄傲的结果）

2.What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned this year?

2.今年最大的教训？

3.On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with how you spent the year? (Or if you prefer giving grades, what grade would you give yourself for how this year turned out, between F- to A+?) Why?

3.满分十分的话，你今年给自己打几分？（如果你喜欢分等级的话，那么从F-到A+是个什么情况呢）为什么？

4.What do you want to accomplish next year, such that it’s your best year ever? Alternatively: ◦If it’s now Dec 31 of next year, what do you want to see in your life?

4如果你今年完成什么，那么就是你最好的一年？或者：若果现在是下一年的12.31号，你希望得到什么？ What does it take to make you feel a 10/10 satisfaction level at the end of next year?

在年底，什么事可以使你感到百分百满意？

5.What new habits to cultivate that will help you to achieve your goals in Q4?

5.在第四个问题中，养成什么新的习惯会使你实现目标？

6.What are your immediate next steps to achieve these goals?

6.你实现下一步的目标的最近一个行动是什么呢？

Take as much time as you need to write your review. These are the very same questions I use for my personal review every year, so I’ve no doubt that you’ll find them useful in yours.

如果需要的话，尽可能花多的时间写总结。每年都使用这些问题来问自己，所以我肯定你们能从中发现它的好处。

If you want, you can get started with questions 1-3 first, which are more reflection questions for the year. Spend a couple of days to think about them, before moving to questions 4-6, which are about the year ahead.Also, add in a recurring event in your calendar every year from 27 Dec to 31 Dec, called ―Yearly Review‖. Bookmark this page so you can refer to it at the end of every year. This will remind you to do your year end reviews.

你如果想的话，可以先从问题1——3开始，这些问题更多地反映今年的情况。在做4——6题之前，花几天时间去想想他们，这些是关于未来的。把这件事放到你每年12.27——12.31的日历中，叫做―年终回顾‖。用书签标记一边年底可以看看。这会提醒你做年终总结。

Share Your Year End Review

分享你的经验吧~

How was your review for 2010? What are your biggest accomplishments for this year that you’re most proud of? What are your biggest lessons for the year? What score did you give yourself for this year? What do you want to

accomplish next year? Share with all of us here! Feel free to share whatever you’re comfortable with. I look forward to reading your results!

你的2010怎么样呢？有什么值得骄傲的收获么？最大的教训是什么？给自己几分？明年想完成什么？分享吧！