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“More About You” Annual Review Workbook(2022–2023 Edition)
We live in a time of astounding opportunities and bewildering challenges that can knock us off our intended path in life. Learning to navigate in these times can be hard. The annual personal year in review exercise reconnects you with your values, highlights your recent successes, and sharpens your focus on your goals for the year ahead. The review process helps you put your past year in perspective and turn toward the year to come. It won’t erase or even diminish the pains of the past year, but it will help you lay stepping stones toward a more productive and satisfying year to come.
Unbundle Your Attention
It’s not an overstatement to say that our attention is under siege and we are losing—losing our ability to focus. Our struggle to focus is both a personal and a cultural problem. Individual and legislative action can mitigate it, but taking action requires a cultural change—one that begins with the development of a more nuanced understanding of attention itself. Once we better understand the nature of attention, we can decide how and when we want to share it and protect it.
More About You!
It’s a fact: 2021 has been challenging. Many of us feel like we’re drifting—buffeted by uncertain winds. Learning to navigate in these times is hard. But there are tools that can help. The personal “year in review” exercise is one. It strengthens your ability to navigate uncertain times. This annual ritual reconnects you with your values and goals, highlights your recent successes, and sharpens your focus on your goals for the year ahead. The review process helps you put your past year in perspective and turn toward the year to come. It’s not magic—it won’t erase or even diminish the pains of the past year—but it will help you lay the stepping stones for a better year to come.
The Art of Time-Shifting
Most of our discussions about time are focused on finding time, managing time, and measuring the outputs of our investments of time. Time-shifting is a different way of thinking about time that’s particularly useful for creative work. It isn’t about moving around blocks of time on your calendar—it’s about learning how to recognize different rhythms of time and shift between them.
Your Personal Annual Review
An annual “year in review” highlights your recent accomplishments, provides insights into lessons learned in the past year, and sharpens your focus on your goals for the year ahead. Try my new annual review workbook!
Your Annual Productivity System Review
Your productivity apps can reinforce positive habits or lock in unproductive behaviors. This post helps you identify productivity sinkholes and evaluate the individual applications in your personal productivity toolkit.
Invent and Wander: Ideas on Innovation from Jeff Bezos and Amazon
Amazon.com has done something rare in business: they’ve simultaneously built successful businesses in several very different categories. They’ve developed a model of creating and nurturing ideas that’s worth looking at and learning from.
Making Your Work Visible with Personal Kanban
The cliché "out of sight, out of mind" is used to convey the idea that we quickly forget people, problems and things that are no longer visible. This post explores the benefits of making work and workflows visible.