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Now that we have all completed our New Year’s Resolutions and goal-planning for 2008, it is time to start thinking about getting ready to look back. We have discussed being ready for change, now I’d like to talk about being ready for review.

The world is moving faster and faster, so it is a safe bet that something will happen to you, to me, to any of us, in the next few weeks that will have a big impact. When these things happen, they seem to come out of nowhere, an unforeseen or unpredictable “bolt-from-the-blue”.

Are you prepared for the unknown?

David Allen, in Ready for Anything, recommends that you grab your organizer and make a note for four weeks from today:

“What happened in the past four weeks that I was unprepared for?”

Now you can be mindful about your everyday business, keeping up-to-date with your activities. When the day of your note comes up, stop and think about the answer.

• Did the unexpected cause a crisis?
• Were you thrown out of your comfort zone?
• Did the unknown strike you as an opportunity?
• Were you on top of things, so the surprise yielded a benefit?

We will come back to this question in four weeks, I am looking forward to finding out what happened.

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