The Yearly Review Assistant

Build A Game Plan To Maximize Your Personal Growth Over The Next 12 Months

Have you taken some time to reflect on the past year to get ready for 2024—so you can make it your best year yet? If you haven't started this process yet (or you're still working through it), you'll want to check out this companion guide to today’s post!

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Ahoy, Digital Writers!

There are only 12 more days before the clock rolls forward to 2024!

12 months of hard work, wins, and lessons learned are still fresh in your memory. When work is flying at you, you don’t have time to think. Which is why now is the perfect opportunity to do an in-depth reflection on 2023 (before everything ramps back up again).

Most people go their entire life without reflecting—and before they know it, years have gone by and it's too late to change.

Don’t let this happen.

Grab your calendar, your journals, to-do lists, and photo albums.

• Fold open a notepad

• Fire up ChatGPT

• And start a conversation with our latest “GPT”

“The Yearly Review Assistant”

The Yearly Review Assistant is a custom plug-in (GPT) that lives inside ChatGPT. It’s like an app you would use on your phone, but for AI prompts. And it has been specifically trained to walk you through an annual review and reflection process.

How To Create A Game Plan To Maximize Your Personal Growth With “The Yearly Review Assistant”

Every year, we spend from Thanksgiving to Christmas immersing ourselves in a deliberate reflection process (and we’ve been doing this for years).

• Recap our year

• Pinpoint what worked & what didn't

• Turn our biggest takeaways into content

Dickie just spent 10 days in the Austrian Alps going through this process. He came back with dozens of lessons, realizations, and stories to tell. All of which he'll write about.

For example, here's his entire 2023 summarized into 13 bullets:

You can follow this step by step, or use it as inspiration to create a process for yourself. Either way, we firmly believe the best way to spend the last few weeks of the year is to give yourself a hard look in the mirror and be honest:

• What went well this past year?

• What didn’t?

• Where are the opportunities to improve?

• How do you plan on holding yourself accountable?

Do this for 10+ years, and the compounding personal growth will astound you.

A couple quick “best practices” before we dive in:

Set aside at least 45 minutes in a quiet location with limited distractions.

Gather any materials that will help you jog your memory. Your calendar, emails you’ve sent, or places you’ve recorded notes during the year are all good resources to have on hand. Then surround yourself with anything that puts you in a reflective mood. Find a coffee shop with a view of the mountains, watch the sunset, or dial in your favorite beats on Spotify.

The point is to prepare yourself to introspect on the year.

When we did this review for ourselves, we blocked off 1-2 hours per “step” so we could give it our full attention. ChatGPT will remember everything you write in your chat session. So, you can start and stop the process—as long as you don’t delete the conversation.

(You don’t have to do this in one sitting.)

Let’s go!

Step 1: Begin The Annual Review Process

Here’s the GPT: