Coaching practices for What to List Under a Job Where I Achieved Nothing and the Business Went Bust

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• All I ever hear from are the ones who made it
• When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
• At the end of the day my failures are vivid and my wins are invisible
• The worst has passed and I genuinely want to know if this gave me anything real
• 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

1. Actively seek out the failures you aren’t seeing
   Look for the people who tried the same thing and didn’t make it through.
   Survivorship Bias: Learning from What You Can’t See
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. Balance the review with a genuine positive inventory
   List three specific things you did well today — not three things that went well, but three things you did.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
4. Conduct a genuine benefit audit — not a positivity performance
   Ask "What, if anything, has this experience actually given me?" with full permission to answer "nothing I can see yet."
   Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical
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. Review and revise the bucket list quarterly
   A list reviewed only at writing is nostalgia; one reviewed quarterly is a live planning document.
   The Bucket List Method
7. Think in scenarios and stories, not task lists
   Describe your ideal outcome for a period as a short narrative before breaking it into actions.
   Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
8. Journal specifically about the relationship and what it meant
   Write in detail about who or what was lost and why it mattered — creating the record that no one else will maintain.
   Disenfranchised Grief, Made Practical
9. Review process goal execution separately from outcomes after each performance
   Evaluate how well you executed your process goals independently of whether you won or lost.
   Process Goals, Made Practical
10. Distinguish outcomes from tasks when setting your three
    An outcome is a result you can evaluate; a task is an activity you can check off — only outcomes tell you whether the day succeeded.
    The Rule of Three for Productivity, Made Practical

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