Whether you’re planning to spend New Year’s Eve out on the town or at home and in bed before midnight, the end of one year and the start of the next is an occasion worthy of reflection.

I love traditions and rituals that mark the seasons and transitions between the old and the new. A new year is one of my favorite opportunities to stop and look at where I’ve been and where I’m going.

Being married to a Filipina we tend to follow In the Philippine tradition of eating round fruits to celebrate the new year – 12 round fruits in fact, one for every month of the year to come.

In parts of the Philippines, it’s traditional to eat fish in the new year’s eve because fish only swim forward, not back.

There’s another tradition to open the door at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve and sweep out the old – welcoming in the new year and good luck for your 2023 adventures!

Here are two suggestions to get altitude on your life and career as we leave 2022 behind:

Aside from the traditional family feast, Filipinas eat sticky foods and rice cakes, together with noodles, they originated from the Chinese tradition and are said to represent good luck for the New Year…

Often a large family or a small village will cook a fatted pig on the spit.

One of my traditions Capture my total learning from 2022 by walking through my calendar, recalling and if you like, writing about what you worked on, and worked toward, accomplished, learned, presented, and surmounted in 2022.

Each year I write a letter to myself, to be opened one year from now as 2023 ends. Write about your vision for yourself one year from now. Committing your vision on paper is the first step in making it real!

Each year I become a career coach, to a young health & safety Practitioner 2023 will be no exception, If you’re thinking about making changes in 2023, consider becoming a career coach. I’m teaching a small group of amazing people how to become career coaches, launch their own independent career coaching businesses.

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