Coaching practices for Year in Review Raw Material
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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
- When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
- 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
- I can picture the handful of moments this year when I felt most alive, but I treat them like nice memories instead of asking what specific setup made them happen
- My days blur past on autopilot and when I finally sit down to make something the well is dry
Practices that may help
- 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) - 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) - 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. - 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) - 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) - Cultivate awareness as your primary creative tool
Pay unusually close attention to what you notice, what you feel, and what catches you — these are the raw material.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - 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) - 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 - 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 weekly jar review to recalibrate categories
Once a week, ask: did my rocks get into the jar? What kept them out?
The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management
Related concerns
- 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
- 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
- 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 After A Setback
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.
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