Coaching practices for What to Quit Next Year
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
- I either cling to something long after it’s clearly not working because quitting feels like giving up, or I bail the first day my motivation dips
- I keep telling myself I’ll cut back on the things that drain me, but every single time the moment comes I cave and say yes again
- There are a handful of things I’ve been telling myself "someday" about for years
- Every January I set these big goals for the year and then coast for months because the finish line is so far off it isn’t real
Practices that may help
- 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) - Pre-set your exit criteria
Decide in advance what result would make you stop, continue, or scale up.
Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It - Write and commit to a standing not-to-do list
Turn elimination candidates into an explicit, reviewed list of permanent refusals.
The Not-To-Do List - Identify your unstarted Quadrant 2 projects
Name the important-but-not-urgent things you keep meaning to start — they represent your real priorities.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - Treat 12 weeks as a full year
Replace the distant annual deadline with a 12-week one that creates urgency now.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical - The 30-day digital declutter
Step away from all optional technologies for 30 days, then add back only what earns its place.
Digital Minimalism, Made Practical - Recognize and address one-more-year syndrome
"Just one more year" is often fear, not a rational financial calculation — learn to tell the difference.
Financial Independence, Made Practical - 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) - Frame next-year commitments as experiments, not resolutions
A 90-day experiment is testable and revisable; a resolution is an unmeasured pledge that either holds or breaks.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Inventory your peak experiences to find the conditions that produced them
Your best moments from the past year reveal which conditions you need more of next year.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
Related concerns
- Is Quitting A Job After A Year Bad
"Just one more year" is often fear, not a rational financial calculation — learn to tell the difference.
Recognize and address one-more-year syndrome
- 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
- Year In Review Template
Pull the data — calendar, photos, notes, emails — before you begin reflecting, so memory does not do all the work.
Gather raw material before reflecting
- Design For Your Best Year
Your best moments from the past year reveal which conditions you need more of next year.
Inventory your peak experiences to find the conditions that produced them
- 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
- New Year Experiments Not Resolutions
A 90-day experiment is testable and revisable; a resolution is an unmeasured pledge that either holds or breaks.
Frame next-year commitments as experiments, not resolutions
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