#personal year in review

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.

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.