GTD + EN: Yearly Review

Yearly review

Once a year you need to spend some time doing personal reflection and review. Here is my yearly review.

Review goals from last year
- Celebrate success
- Analyze areas for improvement
Set goals in each area of life
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Spiritual
- Social/Emotional
- Financial
- Career
- Family
Clean up Evernote
- Empty trash
- Empty Archive folder
- Do a notebook by notebook cleanup and delete old notes and unused / out of date notebooks
Review 30,000 - 50,000 ft level (GTD)
- 50,000 + feet: Life
- 40,000 feet: Three- to five-year visions
- 30,000 feet: One-to two-year goals
Discuss plans and goals with spouse
Add known events for the year into Google Calendar
- Schedule time for vacations
Clean out file cabinets at work and at home

I don't do this all at once. It is too big of task. I usually work on the goals and future life plans all during the month of December. Also, I break the cleaning up tasks into manageable chunks that I do between Christmas and New years. I generally have some time off during those days and start to feel restless after a few days of sitting around. Cleaning up is very cathartic.

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