Coaching practices for The Annual Review Tim Ferriss Method During a Big Change
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- Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
- When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
- I only ever take stock of my life around New Year’s, and by then the year I’m grading is already gone
- 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
- 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
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. - 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) - 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) - 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 - 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) - 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) - 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 - Run a quarterly focus review to refresh the lists
Revisit and rebuild both lists every quarter — priorities shift, and so should the lists.
Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy - Review and adjust themes quarterly
Revisit the theme-day assignment every quarter — life and work change, and the structure should follow.
Theme Days, Made Practical
Related concerns
- 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 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 In A New Job
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.
- Calendar Year Review
Pull the data — calendar, photos, notes, emails — before you begin reflecting, so memory does not do all the work.
Gather raw material before reflecting
- 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
- Honest Year Review Partner
A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
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