Honouring the tradition, at the end of the year, to look back on the year just gone and to look forward to the year ahead, I offered questions on Wednesday to help you reflect on the year just passing. In this blog posting, I offer questions for you to enrich your thinking as you look forward to the year ahead.

I invite you to make time and space to look forward to 2011. This is an opportunity to notice what is beckoning you in the year ahead: both to create the year of your choosing and to be conscious of the year that is choosing you. This is an opportunity to connect with and celebrate your needs, and to imagine the ways in which you can meet your needs in 2011, including your need to make a positive difference in the world. This an opportunity to build on the year you had in 2010 in order to create a year in 2011 which speaks to who you are and to the power and potential you have. For some, it may be time to let go of old ideas to create a new life or a new – more authentic – you. I invite you to put aside doing in order to be present and curious, a time to invite new wisdom and insights.

As you reflect on the questions below – or choose other questions that beckon to you at this time – allow yourself to be guided by your own inner wisdom and spirit, noticing the pictures you see, the words and phrases offered by your unconscious mind and the sensations you feel as you reflect.

• As you look forward to the year ahead, what stands out? What feelings come up for you as you survey the year?
• As you try on the year just coming, what is your experience of the year? Are you looking forward to ease or struggle? Are you looking forward to progress and success?  Or to failure, inhibition and “stuckness”? How is for you to look forward to the year in this way?
• Who are you becoming as you move towards 2011 and who do you yearn to become? How would you like to connect with, nurture and express your true, authentic self in the year ahead? How do you want to communicate with and relate to others in 2011?
• What needs do you have that you would like to meet in 2011? What are the met needs that already enrich your life? What needs would you like to meet more fully in 2011 and how? What attention would you like to give to your needs in 2011?
• What are the riches of the year just passing that you would like to take forward into the year to come? What successes have you had that you can build on? What new learning and insight are you bringing to the year ahead? How can you use these experiences to enrich your life in 2011? What further support do you need?
• And as you imagine the year to come, what will it mean to you to experience the year as you imagine it in advance? How will it meet your needs? How will it support you in contributing to the needs of others?

And as you reflect on these questions what other questions are coming up for you? What else do you need to step powerfully into 2011?