Rescheduled to the end of the month because I am sick again. Guess maybe I should have worn a mask to the airport in travel season.
This was fairly untested but went very well!
I'll do a better writeup as a Meetup In a Box later, but this is how it went:
For each set, 10m writing things down, then ?20m? discussing, then next set
List a few things that went very well this year. (3-5)
List a few things that went very badly this year. (3-5)
If you were to 80/20 your last year, which 20% gave the 80% you valued most?
If someone looked at your actions for the last year, what would they think your priorities were?
What did you intend your priorities to be?
Do you want to make any of the revealed priorities official intentions for next year? Do you want to drop any of the intended priorities which you ended up not following up on?
What habits did you pick up? What goals (revealed or intentional) did those habits serve?
What habits got in the way? What did you fail to get due to them?
What's the most important unfulfilled goal for the last year? How can you change for the next try?
What did you learn last year?
What lessons do you hope to learn this year?
What things are you curious about, that you expect to learn more about this year?
- this one might be worth writing down and storing for next year
We ended up combining sets 3 and 4 because 3 sets is the right amount. I had a whiteboard and wrote short versions of the questions on the whiteboard as a reminder everyone could look at, and later on emailed everyone the questions so they could refer to the list. Doing at least one of those things is probably important.
This week's topic is Year In Review. We'll spend some time looking at our past year and asking questions of ourselves. What did you mean your priorities to be, last year, and what did it look like they were? What did you start doing, and stop doing, and do you endorse those choices? If you were to 80/20 the year, what was the 20% and what was the 80%? Then we'll talk some about our answers and any questions they raise.
We explicitly encourage people to split off from the main conversation or diverge from the topic if that would be more fun for them (moving side conversations into a separate part of the space if appropriate). Meetup topics are here as a tool to facilitate fun interaction, and we certainly don’t want them to inhibit it.
Everyone is welcome. Yes, that includes you, if you're reading this. We meet at 6:15, but the official topic doesn't start until 6:45 to accommodate stragglers, and even later arrivals are also welcome. RSVPs are never required.
About the Meetup
The North Oakland meetup is intended as a fun, low-key social space with some structured interaction, where new and non-new community members can mingle and have interesting conversations. Everyone is welcome, and RSVPs are never required.
We meet every Tuesday in Oakland at 6:15, with a rotating variety of topics but don’t generally start the meetup topic until 6:45-7:00 to accommodate stragglers. Often there is a food delivery order that goes out before we start the meetup topic.
We explicitly encourage people to split off from the main conversation or diverge from the topic if that would be more fun for them (moving side conversations into a separate part of the space if appropriate). Meetup topics are here as a tool to facilitate fun interaction, and we certainly don’t want them to inhibit it.