Are you ending 2024 with multiple “year in review” reports from the various apps you use?
You can get a summary of the songs and artists you listened to through Spotify Wrapped. You can track the books you read through Goodreads. If you play Word with Friends, you can find out how many moves you played, points scored, longest word and best scoring word. (If you’re curious, mine was “azure,” for 107 points.)
When it comes to a corporate job, you probably have a formal performance review every year. For those of us with our own businesses, we have to create our own.
In the December issue of my newsletter, Wordnerdery, I look at why you should conduct your own year in review and some ways you might do it. You could answer 12 questions, reflect and set SMART goals, declutter and organize. You could make your review a December ritual, or you could aim for “December Zero.”
My own yearly review is based on a document updated throughout the year to include standout moments as they happen. It also includes financials, the balance of my clients and where they come from, numbers like newsletter subscribers and open rates, and a look at personal stats like how many books I read (61 this year!). As with corporate reviews – or at least, they way they should happen – there are no real surprises at the end. That’s because I’m tracking how I’m doing all along.
Read more in Wordnerdery!
How about you? What’s your year-end ritual?
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