Coaching practices for The Annual Review Tim Ferriss Method After a Setback

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  • When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
  • I just hit a real failure
  • Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
  • 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 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal
    Build a routine for bouncing back so setbacks don’t end the pursuit.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  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. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. Hold a weekly accountability review
    Spend a short, fixed weekly session reviewing scores and planning the next week.
    The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
  8. 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
  9. Run a Friday Reflection
    Each Friday, review what you accomplished, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
    Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
  10. 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

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