It’s the second-to-last day of 2009 and the interwebs have been flooded with year-end blatherings since two weeks ago. So, being the lemming I am…

Here’s a roundup of some posts that have been essential to my year-end review and have given me a few good tools to get moving on my general outline/plan/something that’ll get me to where I want to go sometime in the next year or so.

Lisa Sonora Beam’s Strategic Planner – Goal Setting for Creatives: I’ve read her book, The Creative Entrepreneur*. I’ve taken both classes she offered this year – one on Visual Journaling and another on the Strategic Planner. I’m finally putting some of this stuff to work! The post I linked to is first in a series of 4. By the time this is published, she should have all 4 on her blog.

Charlie Gilkey & Pam Slim’s Compassionate Business Review: A gentle reminder to not beat myself up for not doing stuff I said I would and really acknowledging what I actually did last year. It’s surprising how easily I forget what I’ve actually accomplished.

Sign up for their next call & you’ll get the link to the worksheet and audio for the Compassionate Business Review.

Chris Brogan’s Wiring Yourself for Success is a simple, elegant, mind-mappy way of framing out your new year. I’ll be using this when I’m charting out strategies & tactics for my goal categories in my Strategic Planner.

Another approach to the year-in-review (part 1). Warning: If you’re easily offended, you might want to skip this one and go see some fuzzy bunnies on Cute Overload instead. Or you can read the Communicatrix’s first-half-of-100 and then go see some fuzzy bunnies because fuzzy bunnies are a good follow-up to just about anything.

What’re You Willing To Do? ZING! Ouch. This one definitely hurt. But it’s true.

“What you’re willing to do is a reflection of how badly you want what you want.”

You say you want to do something, leave your day job, start a new business, create the next best thing since sliced zucchini. But what are you willing to DO for it? Are you willing to risk it all? Or just a little? Or would you rather sit and watch LOST?

And if you’re feeling stuck… Fighting inertia? Stop doing the same things. Do something out of the ordinary and stretch your brain a little. The wheels will start moving again. Promise! Just don’t wallow in “writer’s block” because it doesn’t exist (and neither does the spoon – Yeeah… still coming down from the sugar rush from Christmas goodies )

If there’s anything that’s helping you sort through, plan, organize or “intend” for the next year, post it below! I’d love to see what’s inspiring you.

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