Coaching practices for Year in Review Template
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- 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
- I only ever take stock of my life around New Year’s, and by then the year I’m grading is already gone
- 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
- 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
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) - 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. - 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 - 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) - 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) - 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) - Hold a weekly accountability review
Spend a short, fixed weekly session reviewing scores and planning the next week.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical - The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
The 12 Week Year, from Brian Moran, replaces annual goals with a 12-week “year”: you set a small number of goals, then execute against a weekly plan with a hard deadline at week 12. It is a practitioner execution framework — not a research program — but it leans on real principles about deadlines, focus, and tracking leading behaviors. - 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
Related concerns
- Year In Review Raw Material
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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