Happy 3rd Anniversary FredricLipio.com!
It’s already the third year of FredricLipio.com!
As an annual practice, I’ll be sharing with you highlights from the year, as well as lessons and realizations that I’ve had in running this blog, and my life, for 2017.
And this year has been big, in terms of direction, realization, and what’s next.
Here’s the links to my previous year’s Annual Reviews
2016 Annual Review
2015 Annual Review
Because I sincerely hope that you’re being helped by this blog.
I’ll be answering three basic questions for my annual review:
- What went well for the past year?
- What didn’t go well for the past year?
- What am I working toward for next year?
1. What went well for the past year?
Facilitating and Coaching. For the past year, I got more facilitating and coaching experience. This meant more clients, more income, more impact, and more people and lives helped.
Thanks to Pia, The One Core, Coach May, Kit, Camp Explore, Nena, CLCI, Marlon, Annie, Saz, Emily, Criselle, FOCI, and all of our partners and clients for the opportunity to be of service.
This year was a year of growth in comfort and confidence in terms of handling groups, and individual sessions. I was more comfortable and confident in sessions, which helped to create a bigger impact in the lives of my participants and partners.
There were more opportunities this year, as the engagements came in and kept flowing. I’m grateful for Victa for supporting me, and for Google Calendar for keeping everything in one place.
I also recently completed my Gallup re-certification, and was blessed to also be part of several clients building and certifying their own coaches. Yet, I still recognize that the student also teaches, and the master keeps on learning.
I have only begun to scratch the surface of what the masters do.
Exercise. This was the year where I was able to diligently and consistently make time to stretch, and to work out. I still could be improving on my diet, but that’s mostly my inner critic and mean self talking.
All things considered, I did pretty well on keeping consistent with the exercises, and on being able to recover quickly and bounce back, when I had even experienced a minor relapse in my lower back in the middle of the year.
I learned that it takes dedication and commitment to be healthy, and to hold yourself to a higher standard, not just in health and strength.
Also, it became easier to keep the exercise habit, once I had integrated that into my identity – that I saw myself as a person who kept healthy and exercised.
People follow through on who they believe they are.
Marriage, Relationships, and Friends. I know that I’m in the middle of progress with these, but I can say that after this year, I’m happy to have these close people in my life.
This year has also been a year of reconnecting and rediscovering old friendships that I have not committed to keep in touch or maintain, for one reason or another.
But mostly, because I had been afraid.
Because I had learned to love myself more this year, that led into me becoming more accepting of myself, and more confident to face people who might have negative judgements and past experiences about me.
You can’t love others, if you don’t learn to love yourself.
2. What didn’t go well for the past year?
My Shoulder. This time, my diligence and consistency, coupled with my lack of detailed knowledge, led to me hurting my shoulder.
I still have full range of motion, but I vowed to get this checked and sorted out before it gets any worse.
My hurt shoulder, was a symptom that if I wanted to achieve the standard I had set for myself health and strength-wise, my current level of knowledge and skill would not be enough.
This also means getting professional help, in the same way that I did for my lower back.
Again, exposing the fact that I was too cheap to make sacrifices in other areas of my life, to commit and make this happen.
This also served as a call for a higher level of self-awareness, and that you really con’t go it all alone.
Don’t be afraid to get professional help. Especially when it matters most to you, and you can afford it.
Writing Quality. In this past year, I have missed 2 articles, and have posted late several times. I’m still happy that I’m able to keep up my posting schedule of 2 posts per week, but lately, my writing quality leaves much to be desired.
Only know I’m realizing that if I want to put out higher quality articles, I would have to spend more time not only writing, but more importantly, editing my articles.
Between this, and all of the facilitating and coaching opportunities that came this year, it was the writing schedule that gave way.
Partly, because I’m able to impact more lives through my workshops and coaching sessions, at this point, rather than my writing.
I notice that I haven’t been as diligent to my writing schedule, and that there are times when I write distracted, thoughtless, and not focused, contributing to a low quality of writing.
Meaning, I’m not happy when I read back something that I’ve already published.
Which brings me to a crossroad – do I cut back my posting schedule to make more time for writing or editing? Or find a way to allocate more time to write and edit?
Or, my next realization might make this point moot.
Business and Products. My website as a business, is not growing at a rate I want it to be, and I haven’t really come out with any products for the past year.
I tried an annual planning course, but initial tests and teasers only made 2 sign-ups, one of which was my wife.
Only now am I coming to face the facts that what I’m doing now, isn’t working, and rather than just forcing my way through, I need to find a way to market that’s still me, and yet able to share something valuable to the people I want to help.
Because my website is not getting the traction that I want.
And it’s a deep realization, one that I’m sharing with all of you now. Not only because you, my readers and subscribers, deserved better from me, but because I am apologizing to you.
Due to circumstances, and my hectic schedule in the middle of the year, combined with the stress and fear of “is it going to work?”, I gave up upgrading and developing my website in the middle of the year, and focused on the facilitating and coaching only.
Which is a total 180 against what I want to do for the long run.
3. What am I working toward for next year?
Business and Products. Which means redeveloping my website, and finding something of value that I can offer to my subscribers, and to more people that I want to help.
As my friend ST says, it’s about building assets that provide value for others, and for you, in the long-term.
That, and by helping others, I’ll be able to help me and my family as well.
Also, all of the other efforts – the writing, learning, facilitating, and coaching, is all to help me develop this area of my life.
Confidence. This is the cornerstone. If there’s something that will the the core focus of my development next year, it will be this.
If I was confident that I would succeed at what I wanted to achieve in life, what would I do, and how would I do it?
Instead of me thinking of ways to “not lose”, it’s high time the focus shifts to create an outlook, and an attitude of “win”.
I held back last year because of fear, lack of commitment, and confusion.
All of which because I lacked the confidence to follow through on what I believe would be the way forward to succeed.
Because I didn’t have a backup plan, or I didn’t feel safe.
Enough of that.
There is energy, and grace, in boldness, courage, and confidence.
It’s time to pick myself up again, and keep going forward, with full force.
Grateful for the journey
And looking forward for the many more years and moments to come!
I’d love it if you told me what topics you want to hear from me, and with what I can help you with.
The journey continues, and you can look forward to a rejuvenated, and better FredricLipio.com, come this 2018!
Thank you, and hope to hear from you!
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