Coaching practices for Annual Anti Goals Review

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Annual Anti Goals Review, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’m still steering my whole life by lines I drew years ago about what I’d never accept, and lately I’m not sure those rules even fit who I am now
• I only ever take stock of my life around New Year’s, and by then the year I’m grading is already gone
• Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
• I’m still funneling money toward priorities I set years ago, and my life has moved on since then
• I set goals with such conviction and then never look at them again until it’s too late to do anything

Practices that may help

1. Review and update anti-goals annually as values evolve
   Anti-goals based on your 28-year-old priorities may be wrong for your 38-year-old ones — review them explicitly.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
2. The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
   Tim Ferriss’s annual review is built on two questions — "What went well this year?" and "What did not go well this year?" — applied systematically across major life domains and answered with enough specificity to produce different decisions next year. It is a practitioner tool without clinical evidence, but its mechanisms (structured reflection, explicit failure review, behavioral specificity) are consistent with goal-review and learning research.
3. Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
   Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
4. Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
   What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
5. Run an annual values-spending alignment review
   Review your spending against your values once a year — values shift, and so should the allocation.
   Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
6. Run a regular review cadence
   Check in weekly and score at cycle-end so the OKRs stay alive instead of forgotten.
   OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
7. Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
   A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
8. Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
   Anti-goals, popularised by entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson, are explicit statements of the outcomes, conditions, and trade-offs you refuse to accept — defined before deciding what to pursue. They complement positive goal-setting by creating a decision filter that eliminates technically "successful" outcomes that would make you miserable. The framework is a practitioner heuristic with no direct experimental study, but it applies well-supported principles from decision science and values-clarification.
9. Review and update your conscious spending plan annually
   Treat your plan as a living document that reflects who you are this year, not who you were.
   Conscious Spending Plan, Made Practical
10. Review goal-self fit at regular intervals
    As you grow, some formerly self-concordant goals become misaligned — review them deliberately.
    Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical

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