#559: Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead

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Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job usually to deconstruct world class performers of all different types, to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera, that you can apply to your own lives. This, however, is a special and short episode, and it's going to detail how I approach New Year's. Resolutions. The truth of the matter is that I no longer really approach them at all, even though I did for decades. Why the change? I have found that something I call past year reviews, or PYR, to be more informed, valuable, and actionable than half blindly looking forward with broad resolutions for the next year. I did my first PYR after a mentor's young daughter died of cancer.

on December thirty first, roughly ten years ago. I remember the night very, very clearly. I got the news at a party and went to sit down by myself And I sat with a notepad and by myself did my first past year review. I've done it every year since. Her passing was a very

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