5 Yearly Planning Practices That Set The Direction For A Legendary Year

Forget Goals, Focus on Intentions: My Yearly Planning Rituals That Set The Direction For A Powerful Year.

Ev Chapman
6 min readDec 21, 2023

It’s that time of year when we look back and look forward and try to set some direction & intentions for the year.

I used to hate yearly planning. And I think it comes down to my relationship with goal setting. I’m not much of a goal setter. A year is a long time and I don’t like to be locked into heavy goals throughout the year.

But a few years ago I came up with this yearly planning routine that focused more on setting intentions for the year. Intentions can take you many places — like a navigator setting a direction in which to explore.

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These 5 practices help me to set a powerful intention for how I want to show up throughout the year. And they guide all of my activities, my goals, my habits & how I show up on a daily basis.

I usually sit down somewhere between Christmas & New Years in a quite spot with a coffee and mull over the following 5 practices. Sometimes it’s one session, often it happens over a few days.

Practice 1: Make a Best…

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Ev Chapman

Personal Knowledge Coach. I Help Solopreneurs Turn Their Personal Knowledge into Profitable Ideas with a Tailored System That Transforms How They Think & Create