Coaching practices for The Annual Review Tim Ferriss Method with Friends

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

  • When I do this alone in my head it’s too easy to let myself off the hook and skate past the uncomfortable parts
  • 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 know the weekly review is the thing that keeps me sane, but on any given week it always feels optional and something more urgent eats the time
  • 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. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. Schedule the weekly review as a non-negotiable recurring appointment
    Put the weekly review on the calendar as a fixed, protected block — and treat it as an external meeting.
    The GTD Weekly Review
  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. 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
  8. 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)
  9. The GTD Weekly Review
    The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.
  10. Reflect: review and adjust daily
    Each evening, note what worked, what didn’t, and tweak tomorrow’s tactics.
    Make Time, Made Practical

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