I joined the Reverb Challenge, a monthly event in December to reflect on the past year and start thinking about the next. Every day I get in my mailbox a prompt written by a different author, all of 31 of them influential writers and bloggers in the personal development and creative fields: Brené Brown, Gretchen Rubin, Tracey Clark, Susannah Conway, Alice Bradley… It’s full of energy, and I love that it puts me in a good mood!

As this place is mostly for writing and reading, I mostly keep the answers to these prompts private and prefer to write in my journal. So my posting here might get more patchy as we get to the end of the year and we gear up for the season (this year I’ll have the whole family at our place, omg!).

If you want to celebrate 2010, and even if you don’t like New Year resolutions, check out their website:

Reverb 10 (#reverb10) is now an annual event, an inspired response to (and evolution of) #best09. It’s an open online initiative that encourages participants to reflect on this year and manifest what’s next. It’s an opportunity to retreat and consider the reverberations of your year past, and those that you’d like to create in the year ahead. We’re connected by the belief that sharing our stories has the power to change us. We look forward to reading yours.

The first prompts were:

  • December 1 – One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. (Author: Gwen Bell)
  • December 2 – Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? (Author: Leo Babauta)
  • December 3 – Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. (Author: Ali Edwards)