Past Year Reviews by Tim Ferriss

Instead of making New Year's resolutions, conduct a "Past Year Review" and calendar more of what you would like to be doing in the new year.

Al Chen

This exercise is based on Tim Ferriss’ original blog post about

here⁠

. It appeared in his "

5-Bullet Friday⁠

" newsletter on December 28th, 2018.

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If you have integrated your Coda doc with the

Google Calendar Pack⁠

, you can automatically pull in your Google Calendar events into this doc and also quickly schedule events for the new year from within this doc.

Here is an overview of the steps (set aside 30–60 minutes to complete):

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Add People, Activities, Commitments Go through your calendar from the last year and identify the people, activities, and commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for you.⁠

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Log Emotions Now, next to each activity, person, and commitment, log whether the item generated a positive or negative emotion for you.⁠

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Top 20%⁠

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Get Them On Calendar! Take the top 20% of your positive items and get them scheduled on the calendar today!⁠

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NOT-TO-DO LIST Don't do these things⁠

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Ready to Get Started? →
`Add People, Activities, Commitments`⁠
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Past Year Reviews by Tim Ferriss

Here is an overview of the steps (set aside 30–60 minutes to complete):

Ready to Get Started? → Add People, Activities, Commitments⁠⁠

Ready to Get Started? →
`Add People, Activities, Commitments`⁠
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