IKIGAI is a way to find the purpose of your life. The reason to wake up every morning. It is the sweet spot where What you love doing (passion), What the world needs from you (value), What you can be paid for (skills), and What you are good at (gifts) synergises. List out all the four areas of the circle that can help you identify the purpose or mission of your life. After filling all the four areas, check if there are some common things that connect the items in all the four circles. This would be your IKIGAI.

A vision board is a pictorial representation of all your goals over 1, 3, 5 or even 10 years. You pick 4-6 themes. Divide the chart paper or board into those themes like: Family, Career, Health and Personal Development, Hobbies and Fun, Finance etc and post pictures, motivational quotes, notes of you manifesting those. For example if your goal is to have $1 million dollars in the bank, post a check of $1 million on your vision board.

12 themes or areas have been created for you to choose to address each month. Choose what theme you would like to work on so that you mindfully and actively set those in motion. You can choose more than one theme each month and review it.

This section allows you to organise, schedule, plan your weekly appointments, dates, calendar events, doctor appointments or any other appointments or events you may want to schedule. You could even plan out what you want to accomplish that week so you remain focused in your quest to achieve your goals. No dates have been assigned as you may pick up the book and start using it anytime of the year. Choice is yours.

This section has 4 main areas to work on and could be in sync with your habit trackers: Books you want to read that month, Shows a friend may have told you about that may interest you, Podcasts and inspiring or work related videos like TED talks that you want to listen to, Movies that you always wanted to catch up on. This is an area that allows you the space for leisurely activities which are so important to find that happy balance and personal growth in your hectic life.

While I Reflect and I Envision and the Vision Board allows you to create short term and long term overall goals and vision for yourself, the intentions/goals sections for each month allows you to stay more focused on your work or personal growth goals for that week. They could be related to your personal, financial or spiritual growth objectives.

It is vital that we focus on failures. Failures teach you how to succeed. Looking back at things that moved away from your intentions in the form of failed targets, failed personal behaviour like impatience; unforeseen circumstances that prevented you from succeeding in your goals; mistakes or errors committed, shortfalls experienced all these need to be acknowledged, embraced and learned from.

Success is a great motivator, every success big or small must be acknowledged and you must express gratitude towards those achievements and motivate yourself to keep going.

Affirmations are positive acknowledgement of all that happened in the day. Even if one experiences a negative experience, writing what you learned from it, how well you handled yourself, what were the challenges that you overcame those are excellent sources of success manifestation. You not only acknowledge your learnings, you also keep inspiring yourself to achieve more. It goes beyond scheduling and calendaring but actually building on your success and experiences.

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson.

No success is complete without being grateful for it. The gratitude jar creates positive ripples in your life and continues to help you focus on what really matters and what your focus should be on. In our disappointments we forget to acknowledge all the good things in our lives. Gratitude can be listed here and also in the Affirmation section of the week.

This section gives you the freedom of expression. Imagine looking back at a particular month, reminiscing and remembering all what happened and what your mental state was during that time. A great book you read or a podcast that inspired you or a disappointment you overcame or a success story that you are basking in. All these emotions matter and sum up how you really feel and create a positive minset so important for success. This is a great way to reduce stress and get a clear perspective on things that can be challenging.

Most people make resolutions that they eventually break. Mel Robbins’s 5 Second Rule states that “If you have an instinct to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds or your brain will kill it.” While you can use the 5-4-3-2-1- rule to motivate yourself to act on your goals, the habit tracker sections helps you track them and help you stay on course. Create your own habits you want to track - like fitness goals, drink more water, ready more books, work on something daily is recorded for you to see. The more ticks you fill in the habit tracker box, the more sense of achievement you feel. If you don't tick the box, don't see it as a disappointment but an opportunity to correct it the following month. Keep pushing yourself, look into your own inward personal wisdom to know what is right for you and just do it.

For notes, learnings, contacts, network or for any more journaling you want to record for yourself. Remember this book becomes your personal memoir that keeps records of all that happened over a year. You may use it to recap, reflect and then work on making those little changes in your life that help you achieve all your dreams. Places you visited, people you connected with, memories you created; the highs and lows of the year; the successes and failures and learning - all these could be part of your personal memoir.