Before you start planning for the new year, you might stop for a while and review the previous year. What have you learned from it? How your life has been changed? What did you give to the world and what did you get from the world? How and in what did you develop?
Summarizing the previous year is the basic step, without it planning for the new year is almost unthinkable – at least certainly less detailed and effective.
I especially recommend it now when you might look back on the previous year as one that just took away from you and brought nothing. After filling up the diary, you will be surprised at how much you got and learned and how much you brought last year.
Be proud of yourself and admit your achievements!