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Year End Review Prompt: Personal Recap and Next Year Plan
Run a personal year end review from your own goals, notes, and tallies: a goal scorecard, your year in numbers, patterns, lessons, and a three-goal plan.
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Prompt
Act as a personal productivity coach who runs year end reviews from a person's own goals, calendar notes, and tallies, counts what actually happened, and turns it into a short plan for next year that fits the hours they really have. Inputs: - Goals I set at the start of the year, with any target numbers: [YearGoals] - Month-by-month highlights from my calendar, journal, or photos: [YearLog] - Things I tracked, by month or quarter: [TrackedNumbers] - What gave me energy and what drained it: [EnergyNotes] - Life areas I care about (health, work, money, people, learning): [LifeAreas] - Hours per week I can give to goals next year: [NextYearHours] - Anything I do not want to review or plan: [OffLimits] Generate: 1. Goal scorecard: each goal marked done, partial, or dropped, with the evidence quoted from YearLog or TrackedNumbers and the percent of target where there is a number. 2. Year in numbers: totals recomputed from TrackedNumbers, with the sum shown. 3. Highlights by quarter: two per quarter, taken from YearLog. 4. Life areas check: one line per area in LifeAreas on what the year gave it, and the area that got the least. 5. Patterns: what the energy notes and the log say together, for example goals that stalled in the same months a drain showed up. 6. Lessons: three, each tied to something that happened. 7. Keep, stop, start: three of each, specific enough to act on. 8. Next year plan: at most three goals, each with a first-quarter milestone and weekly hours, with the hours adding up to no more than NextYearHours. 9. One-paragraph note to read on January 1. Rules: - Use only what I paste; if a month is missing, say so instead of filling it in. - This is a personal review, not a work self evaluation and not therapy; skip anything in OffLimits.
Instructions
Paste your own goals, monthly notes, and tallies; missing months are marked, not guessed. Check the totals, edit the plan to your life, and keep it as a personal review rather than a work evaluation.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
YearGoals: run a half marathon; read 24 books; save $5,000 for a trip to visit my sister; reach A2 level in Spanish YearLog: Jan started a Tuesday Spanish class; Feb training plan, 3 runs a week; Apr ran the city half marathon on April 12 in 2:07; May Spanish class ended, did not re-enroll; Jun new team at work, long days; Jul and Aug skipped savings to cover a car repair; Sep joined a book club; Oct started Saturday long runs again; Nov and Dec planned the trip for March TrackedNumbers: books read: Q1 6, Q2 4, Q3 2, Q4 5; savings deposits: $350 a month in every month except July and August, plus a $700 tax refund in April EnergyNotes: gave energy: Saturday long runs, book club nights, cooking on Sundays; drained: late work calls in June to August, scrolling after 10 pm LifeAreas: health, money, people, learning NextYearHours: 6 hours a week OffLimits: work projects
Example Output
1. GOAL SCORECARD - Half marathon: DONE. "ran the city half marathon on April 12 in 2:07". - Read 24 books: PARTIAL. 6 + 4 + 2 + 5 = 17 of 24 (71%). - Save $5,000: PARTIAL. 10 deposits x $350 = $3,500, plus $700 refund = $4,200 of $5,000 (84%). - Spanish A2: DROPPED in May. "class ended, did not re-enroll". Level reached is not in your notes. 2. YEAR IN NUMBERS - 17 books (best quarter Q1 with 6, lowest Q3 with 2) - $4,200 saved for the trip - 1 half marathon finished, 2:07 - 3 runs a week from February (weeks completed not tracked) 3. HIGHLIGHTS BY QUARTER Q1: started Spanish class; built a 3-runs-a-week plan. Q2: finished the half marathon on April 12; added the $700 refund to savings. Q3: joined a book club; covered a car repair (savings skipped July and August). Q4: Saturday long runs again; trip planned for March. 4. LIFE AREAS CHECK Health: a finished half marathon and long runs back in October. Money: 84% of the trip fund. People: book club and a trip to see your sister. Learning: got the least; Spanish stopped in May. 5. PATTERNS Your lowest reading quarter (Q3, 2 books) and the skipped savings months (July, August) fall in the same stretch as the late work calls in June to August. Reading picked up after the book club started in September. 6. LESSONS - A fixed day works for you: Tuesday class and Saturday runs held while they existed. - Shared plans stick: book club brought reading back to 5 books in Q4. - One surprise cost two savings months; a small buffer would protect the goal. 7. KEEP, STOP, START Keep: Saturday long runs; book club; Sunday cooking. Stop: scrolling after 10 pm (move the phone out of the bedroom); letting late calls take your evenings without a plan. Start: a set Spanish slot on Tuesdays; an automatic $350 transfer on the 1st; a $50 a month repair buffer. 8. NEXT YEAR PLAN (6 hours a week) 1) Run a second half marathon. Q1 milestone: a 10-mile Saturday run by end of March. 3 hours a week. 2) Read 20 books. Q1 milestone: 5 books by March 31, with book club. 2 hours a week. 3) Spanish back to weekly. Q1 milestone: enroll in a Tuesday class by January 31. 1 hour a week. Total: 3 + 2 + 1 = 6 hours a week. 9. NOTE FOR JANUARY 1 You finished a half marathon, read 17 books, and saved $4,200 in a year that included a car repair and a hard summer at work. Protect your fixed days, keep reading with others, and put Spanish back on Tuesdays.