December 31, 2019 10:00 am Published by

Thank You, Tim Ferriss #227

Completion. It’s a factor we need to free our energy and move on. Without it, life can feel like an amalgamation of all things stuck and immobile. For me, it messes with my emotions and often causes undue stress.

For me, this means I need to get in action, or I’ll be inactive.

As a great practice for New Year’s Eve, consider Tim Ferriss’ year-end review. It is a great way to bring completion to 2019 and begin 2020 anew:

Tim Ferriss’ Past Year Review

This Review takes 30-60 minutes.

Grab a notepad and create two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.

  1. Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week.
  2. For each week, jot down on the pad any people or activities or commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns.
  3. Once you’ve gone through the past year, look at your notepad list and ask, “What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks?”
  4. Based on the answers, take your “positive” leaders and schedule more of them in the new year. Get them on the calendar now! Book things with friends and prepay for activities/events/commitments that you know work. It’s not real until it’s on the calendar. That’s step one.
  5. Step two is to take your “negative” leaders, put “NOT-TO-DO LIST” at the top, and put them somewhere you can see them each morning for the first few weeks of 2019. These are the people and things you *know* make you miserable, so don’t put them on your calendar out of obligation, guilt, FOMO, or other nonsense.

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