Another year has come and gone. Review time!
At the end of every year I perform a complete review of my life, my goals, and my projects. I’ve done this for about ten years now, and found it valuable every time.
Here’s a summary of my review for 2013. When performing my review I go into much more detail than what’s below. Details on how I go about doing this can be found in my free guide 8,760 Hours.
Overall
Overall, 2013 was a pretty awesome year. I made progress on a lot of things I thought were important, completed a bunch of projects, made a lot of exciting changes, and learned a lot.
That said, I still didn’t do everything I originally set out to do, I didn’t fix all the things I wanted to fix, I didn’t take enough time to enjoy life, and I didn’t learn all the things I wanted to learn. [click here to keep reading…]
This post contains an up-to-date list of my “life areas”—a breakdown of the major different areas in my life, which I frequently use, for example when performing my yearly reviews.
1. Worldview & Purpose
Is: your overall clarity as to your existence, purpose, and place in the universe; religious beliefs; goals; philosophy of life; fundamentals; want out of life; values; worldview; beliefs about everything—the past, present, and future, what is valuable, virtuous, and just.
Questions:
I’ve been using Anki fairly regularly for a few years, but it’s time to start over.
My decks are too many and too cluttered. I have too much material that I don’t actually care to spend my time memorizing. A lot of my notes are old and poorly formatted. I haven’t gone through them to fix them all because there are so many.
I’ve failed to follow my own advice!
So, I’m starting over. Clean slate!
I went through my entire collection today and purged everything but the absolute essentials. Of those, I went through every note and cleaned them up, pared them down, and simplified.
My plan going forward is as follows: [click here to keep reading…]
