5 Psychology Tips for New Year’s Reflections

So it’s Christmas – What did you do?

Well, the end of the year is approaching and this is a time for reflections on the past year! The subtitle of this text “So it’s Christmas – What did you do?” is a translation of the famous song by John Lennon So this is Christmas (War is over). Although it is sometimes strange or even uncomfortable to look back on our past actions, this is an excellent way for us to change and improve. At the end of this text, I will give you 5 tips for you to do this reflection and be able to project better moments for the days to come.

First, I would like to take a look back at what this year has been for our website – .com

At the beginning of the year, in January, we had around 230,000 visits to our website. In December 2012 we reached the milestone of 800,000 hits! At the beginning of this year, we had just over 300 fans on our facebook page – Tudo sobre Psicologia and currently we have 4,684!

It was also a year of big changes. The main one was the change behind the scenes of the site: we went from blogger to wordpress.org, a way of writing and publishing a website on the Internet that is much more professional and complete. We had help from Belo Site – Professional Sites at affordable prices to make this change and to create the layout and hosting. With this new structure we managed to better organize the texts and also the files of each columnist who collaborates with us.

In October 2012, we were able to renew the CFP Accreditation Seal for carrying out Online Psychological Guidance via MSN, Skype and Email, which we have been doing since the beginning of 2011. And it has been a pleasure to be able to help people from all over the world. Brazil and also abroad: in Portugal, Italy, USA, Austria, etc.

Particularly, for me, Felipe de Souza, it was a year of great achievements also in academia, that is, in my Doctorate at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. In addition to having completed all the disciplines, I was approved in the qualification (evaluation process of Doctors and PHD professors) of the work carried out to date. I was so praised that I am seriously thinking about continuing my academic career, as a researcher and teacher, with as much dedication and passion as I do Online Consultations and work as a clinical psychologist in the office.

I received several invitations from nationally circulated newspapers and magazines to write or give an interview on topics related to psychology. To name a few:

==> Desapegue article – The article was published on 04/01/2012 in one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Brazil today, with more than 1 million and 800 thousand editions – Folha Universal.

==> Guides to Psychoanalysis Collection on CG Jung – Text on the theoretical and personal relationship between Freud and Jung

==> Interview for the Jornal de Opinião, from Rede Catedral about Patience for Psychology

In addition to all these achievements, our subdomain Frases de Psicologia surpassed the mark of more than 100,000 hits!

Well, and as agreed, I’m going to give you some tips on how to do the year-end reflection. It might be interesting to take a paper and a pen and make a first survey of everything that was good and everything that wasn’t good in the year that is ending. The tips below will also help:

1) It is always important to know how to criticize and self-criticize. That is, see the negative points of the things that happened and the things you did – or failed to do – as learning. Learn more – (If) criticizing too much?

2) See everything that was positive as a motivator for even better actions in the future. In other words, if you’ve already achieved so much, if you’ve achieved and done so much of what you’d like to do, what’s stopping you from going even further?

3) Maybe you see the negative points and analyzing what wasn’t so nice you see that most of the bad things were the responsibility of other people. In other words, sometimes we experience experiences that do not depend on our will, such as when someone says something to us or about us that we dislike. As we cannot control the behavior of other people, the best way is to learn to forgive: Forgiveness – Technique to Forgive

4) Make a list of what you want and haven’t got yet. This text will help you: Discover your goals

5) Want to change and don’t know how? Take our Free Course – How to Change

Merry Christmas everyone!

And thank you for always visiting our site!

Yours sincerely,

Felipe de Souza

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