Looking Back on 2019 for a Great 2020

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today we're going to be walking through the process of how to conduct an end of year review by letting you in while I went through my own review.

Head over to the show notes page to grab a copy of the Review Your Year PDF that I use in this episode: HackingYourADHD.com/2019Review

Since I've started doing yearly reviews, I've realized that I'm pretty bad at looking back. Often I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels, but it turns out that it's just that my rearview mirror is broken. The problem is that when I look back I tend to only remember a small fraction of what went on over the year. I mean even when I've tried doing a weekly review I find that I can't actually accurately remember what went on that week. But that doesn't mean that we can't do something to help jog our memories.

This Episode’s Top Tips

List out your goals for 2019 and see which ones you completed (and it's okay if you didn't get them all - I didn't hit many of mine this year)
Go through your calendar week by week and find all the things that you've forgotten about over the year
Separate everything you did this year into their various life domains so you can see where you've spent most of your time
Using all the information you gathered, spend some time writing and reflecting on how your year went
Keep all this information handy for next week when we start planning our year

And be sure to connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to let me know what your top takeaway was from this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.8	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:14.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:20.0	This episode is going to be a little
0:21.5	different because we're going through my end-of-year review worksheet together. If you'd like to
0:25.9	download that, you can head over to hackingy-a-dhd.com slash 2019 review and grab your own copy. I thought
0:33.7	the best way to do things would be to walk you through the process of how to conduct an end-of-year review by letting you in while I do my own review.
0:41.0	Now, just to be clear, I've cut a few things out to help with the flow of the show, though
0:44.5	this is going to take longer than an episode to do, so make sure you've carved out some time
0:48.1	to do this on your own.
0:49.9	In this episode, we're going to be learning the steps to complete an end-of-year review. We'll be going over our calendars, separating those events into five life domains,
0:57.1	and then using that information to reflect on how our year went.
1:00.5	And again, if you'd like to grab that PDF I'm going to be using throughout this episode,
1:03.6	go check it out on the show notes page at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash 2019 review.
1:10.2	All right, let's get crackleckin.
1:19.6	We're heading up into the end of the decade here. And man, talk about time blindness.
1:24.0	I can barely conceive that 2020 is real. It's only three weeks away as I'm recording
1:28.3	this, and then we're back into the roaring 20s. Next week, we're going to get into planning our
1:33.1	2020, but to really get a picture of where we want to go, it's a good idea to figure out where you are
1:38.4	and where you've been. A big problem with ADHD is that we seem to make the same mistakes over and over
1:44.1	again. We'd like to
1:45.4	think we learn from our experience, but unless we actively look back at those experiences,
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