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*ENDING RIGHT, STARTING STRONG*
*6 things to do before you enter 2017*
*By Bismark Tay*

Year 2016 is in it's final days of being 'alive'. It's been a great year which ever way you look at it. In few days, we'll be starting year 2017, a year that holds a lot of promise and hope. By 31st of this month, most of us will get into the frenzy of making it to the end of the year and entering the new one. It's really important and appropriate to thank God for how far He's brought us but equally important is to reflect on your journey in 2016 and then set SMART goals for 2017.

So, here again is the list of 6 critical assignments everyone should do before entering a new year.

1. DO A THOROUGH REVIEW OF YOUR LIFE IN 2016: You can't just jump into 2017 without picking the lessons in 2016 and you can't pick the lessons in 2016 without doing a thorough review of the year. This is why Socrates says 'An unexamined life is not worth living'. You must do a review that looks closely at very specific details of your year, month by month, activity by activity. For some years now, I've used a very rigorous tool to review my year and that of my private coaching clients. This year, I will make this tool available to you so you can share in its power to put your year on a different growth trajectory.

2. SET SMART GOALS FOR 2017. Goal setting is a mark of all high achievers. You don't need new year resolutions. You need new year goals. Goals that are SMART in nature. Goals that will take you from here to there. There is goal setting and there is 'goal setting'. Some goal lists are better described as wish lists. A real goal list comes out of a deep reflection of where you've been and where you want to go. It bridges the past, the present and the future in a very orderly, attainable and reasonable manner.

3. MAKE A STOP DOING LIST. As we grow in life, there are things we need to stop doing. Many times we only consider things we need to start doing. However, when we can stop doing certa