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Doing a year-end review is what I call “picking up your paycheck.” You did a lot of work i
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Doing a year-end review is what I call âpicking up your paycheck.â You did a lot of work in 2021 and [Coach Tony]( Coach Tony [@tonystubblebine]( Doing a year-end review is what I call âpicking up your paycheck.â You did a lot of work in 2021 and your review is where you get paid off by capturing lessons learned and entering the new year smarter than you entered this year.Â
From both personal and coaching experience, doing this review can take a while. So itâs best to start early in the month, i.e. now.
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Two Annual Review Systems.
I recommend starting with either [Jason Shen](âs [3-Hour Annual Review](. or [Niklas](âs [5-Minute Annual Review](. They are both goodâââjust pick the one that matches your ambition.
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Add in gratitude.
I donât like getting stuck in a self-critical hole at the end of the year. Of course, critiquing yourself is part of the process. But when all you do is critique you lose track of what you gain by working this hard. So every year I do a gratitude exercise to pull out 52 âgood thingsâ from the year that Iâm grateful for.Â
Of course, I use memory prompts. Hereâs a link for reviewing your [Netflix activity](. Then I look at my calendar and my photos.Â
If you do this every year you end up feeling pretty accomplished. [Hereâs my history of gratitude lists, now totally 730](.Â
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Synthesizing your knowledge into a book of your lifeâs wisdom.
The following exercise is very extra. Iâve offered it up to a lot of people now and what Iâve learned is that itâs only for some of you. If you love writing, then itâll feel like a long journal entry. If you donât love writing then itâll feel like homework.Â
The exercise is to write and update the core of your lifeâs wisdom, philosophies, and best practices on living. Your output is called a Codex Vitae. [Mine is about 2k words]( and took me five years to write.
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Give a name to your year.Â
In case you are skipping Jasonâs annual review system, this is one of his exercises that I donât want you to miss. Before I started this practice I only had two named years, my birth year and my high school graduation year. Now I can point to every recent year and recall that yearâs defining theme.Â
This doesnât have to be poetic. Mine are pretty concrete, i.e. Year of VanLife for the year where I spent 4 months living in a van or, this year, Year of Upstate for the house âupstate from NYCâ that we bought and renovated.
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