The letter I write myself every year

I know, by the end of January the “look how much I learned last year” posts are already out of fashion 🙄 I do mine late, though, because I need to think about it quite a bit and because my annual review is a little complex.

How it works

Among many other things, every year I do these four:

• →I read and analyse the letter I wrote myself the year before
• →I go through every area of my life: what worked, what didn't, what I can improve, what I need to drop and the next steps
• →I write the goals for each area
• →I prepare the letter for the following year

Why the letter

The letter is my favourite part: it forces you to come to terms with who you were twelve months earlier, with no way to fix it after the fact.

It's the yearly version of an exercise I do every weekend: in the short term everything looks huge, in the long term almost nothing really is. Rereading yourself after a year is exactly how you remember that.