- What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
- Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
- Did anyone close to you give birth?
- Did anyone close to you die?
- What cities/states/countries did you visit?
- What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
- What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- What was your biggest failure?
- What other hardships did you face?
- Did you suffer illness or injury?
- What was the best thing you bought?
- Whose behavior merited celebration?
- Whose behavior made you appalled?
- Where did most of your money go?
- What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- What song will always remind you of this year?
- Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
- What do you wish you’d done more of?
- What do you wish you’d done less of?
- How are you spending the holidays?
- Did you fall in love this year?
- Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
- What was your favorite show?
- What was the best book you read?
- What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
- What was your favorite film?
- What was your favorite meal?
- What did you want and get?
- What did you want and not get?
- What did you do on your birthday?
- What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
- How would you describe your personal fashion this year?
- What kept you sane?
- Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
- What political issue stirred you the most?
- Who did you miss?
- Who was the best new person you met?
- What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
- What is a quote that sums up your year?