How To Review Your Year w/ Mike Vardy – ABR046

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English - December 27, 2017 12:59 - 52 minutes - 49.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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Learning from past actions is one of the most effective ways to make improvements to your personal and business productivity.

Today productivity strategist Mike Vardy is on the podcast to give you a simple game plan to review your year.

By listening, you'll get some fun strategies to help you:

celebrate your successes
learn from your mistakes
move forward with more purpose

Enjoy!

In this episode we cover:

How to use your calendar to kick-start your annual review.
Why breaking your annual review into 4 separate 'seasonal' journaling sessions will give you the most accurate snapshot of the year.
Examples of quantitative and qualitative data you can take from your past to help you become more effective in the future.

Vardy Quotables:

"We don't tend to look back enough when we are trying to move forward."
"The holiday season is like being on a plane ride for two weeks. You've got fewer expectations at work. You can use that extra time to reflect and plan."
"Productivity is about intention AND attention."
"Look back at the minutes to make better moments."
"There is no stupid part of a system if it works."
"The best app you can focus on is the app within."
"Frameworks foster freedom."

Quotes Mentioned:

"Pain + Reflection = Progress" - Ray Dalio
"Mistakes are opportunities for improvement." - Sam Carpenter
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight Eisenhower

Links and Resources Mentioned:

ABR #42 How To Choose Your Next Big Goal
Mike Vardy's Now Year Course
Zack's Productive Journaling Article
Principles by Ray Dalio
Work The System by Sam Carpenter
Confirmation Bias - the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
ABR #5 Capture Everything, Regret Nothing
ABR #28 How To Never Forget Anything
ABR #17 Guided Mind Sweep
The F-ing Meeting to talk about food, finances and family.
Getting Things Done by David Allen
NeuYear Calendar
The Now Year Calendar
The Personal MBA
Free Todo List Help

Connect with Zack and Mike:

Mike's Twitter: @mikevardy
Mike's Website: productivityist.com
Zack's Twitter: @zwsexton
Zack's LinkedIn: @ZacharySexton
Leave iTunes Review: zacharysexton.com/review

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Learning from past actions is one of the most effective ways to make improvements to your personal and business productivity.

Today productivity strategist Mike Vardy is on the podcast to give you a simple game plan to review your year.

By listening, you’ll get some fun strategies to help you:

celebrate your successes
learn from your mistakes
move forward with more purpose

Enjoy!

In this episode we cover:

How to use your calendar to kick-start your annual review.
Why breaking your annual review into 4 separate ‘seasonal’ journaling sessions will give you the most accurate snapshot of the year.
Examples of quantitative and qualitative data you can take from your past to help you become more effective in the future.

Vardy Quotables:

“We don’t tend to look back enough when we are trying to move forward.”
“The holiday season is like being on a plane ride for two weeks. You’ve got fewer expectations at work. You can use that extra time to reflect and plan.”
“Productivity is about intention AND attention.”
“Look back at the minutes to make better moments.”
“There is no stupid part of a system if it works.”
“The best app you can focus on is the app within.”
“Frameworks foster freedom.”

Quotes Mentioned:

“Pain + Reflection = Progress” – Ray Dalio
“Mistakes are opportunities for improvement.” – Sam Carpenter
“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight Eisenhower