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- When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
- Good things happened this year and I’m grateful for them, but I genuinely couldn’t tell you what I did to make them happen
- When something goes badly I’ll pick it apart for hours, but when something actually goes great I just enjoy it and move on without a second thought
- Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
- When I try to look back on the whole year, all I can really summon is the last few weeks and the couple of dramatic moments
Practices that may help
- 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. - Spend more time on "what did not go well" than on what did
Failure analysis contains the most actionable information in any honest review.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Go deep on "what went well" — extract the recipe, not just the win
A win recorded but not analyzed produces no transferable knowledge — identify what specifically caused it.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Apply the AAR to successes, not only setbacks
Reviewing what actually caused a win produces replicable insight; reviewing only failures produces only loss-avoidance.
After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning - 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) - Gather raw material before reflecting
Pull the data — calendar, photos, notes, emails — before you begin reflecting, so memory does not do all the work.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - 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) - Hold a weekly accountability review
Spend a short, fixed weekly session reviewing scores and planning the next week.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical - Conduct a daily after-action review with zero excuses
Review the day’s performance honestly: what happened, what should have happened, what changes.
The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice - Build a regular AAR cadence, not just crisis-triggered reviews
Reviews triggered only by problems create a negative-events database; a regular cadence captures ordinary learning that compounds.
After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning
Related concerns
- Honest Year In Review
Failure analysis contains the most actionable information in any honest review.
Spend more time on "what did not go well" than on what did
- How To Do An Annual Review
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.
- The Annual Review Tim Ferriss Method After A Setback
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.
- The Annual Review Tim Ferriss Method At Work
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.
- The Annual Review Tim Ferriss Method During A Big Change
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.
- Annual Review Failure Analysis
Failure analysis contains the most actionable information in any honest review.
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