It's "annual personal review" season! Lots of people are writing about setting their 2020 goals, or looking back on what worked or didn't in 2019.
Those practices are cool, but in this thread, tell me—what's the most _unusual_ "annual review" practice you enjoy? 📆👽
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(One of mine: what's the best single thing I ate this year? [This year: a grilled diver scallop, served plain in butter, at Angler. I wept! I ordered another.])
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This is less unusual, but it's a time of year when many people are thinking about starting/changing habits, so I'll also re-share this weird approach to habits. Wrote this two years ago—still works great, have used it to start many new habits since then!
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A couple of years ago I decided to give each year of my life a rating on a 1–10 scale, going back to 2001. I've been keeping this in a spreadsheet and I update it each year
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would love to hear more details on your rating rubric :)
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May sound weird but I let myself be really angry for a few hours over things I messed up, or actions by other people. Somehow acknowledging these feelings helps.
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I like this because it normalizes the feeling that not everything has to/is perfect and we can always find things to improve. Flip side is showing self-compassion/growth mindset when you feel like you could’ve done something differently
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Not *super* unusual, but an audit of time spent online! I also made a list of all the shows I watched/abandoned.
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Interesting to see my year laid out objectively in numbers with RescueTime.
I spent 235 hours writing or editing in Google Docs. This is 130 more hours than in 2018 or 123% more time. This is the year I wrote the most, publishing ~88,000 words online or the length of a book.
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The other day I recorded a voice-memo-time-capsule with 2 close friends where we told each other our favorite stories from the decade. The idea is to listen to it again at the end of 2029. TBD if we’ll follow through
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It was interesting to think about how much shared context we will (or won’t) have with our future selves. E.g. which inside jokes need to be explained, which cultural references might be forgotten
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I was blogging daily for 360 days last year, then spent the last 5 reviewing it all and looking for patterns. Highly recommend 🌞
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