7 Questions to Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet
All the Hacks with Chris Hutchins
Identifying and Minimizing Negative Influences in Your Life
This chapter explores the idea of 'boat anchors'—individuals who hinder personal growth and motivation. It encourages listeners to reflect on their relationships and find ways to minimize the negative impact of these influences without completely cutting ties.
#208: Learn the 7-step framework for a personal annual review that will help you reflect on last year and plan to make this year your best one yet. Together with Sahil Bloom, we discuss insights for setting meaningful goals across personal growth, relationships, and career, along with tactics to track progress and improve next year’s review.
Sahil Bloom is the author of 5 Types of Wealth and the creator of The Curiosity Chronicle, a widely-read weekly newsletter that offers actionable insights for cultivating a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life. He is also an investor and runs a venture fund called SRB Ventures.
Link to Full Show Notes: https://chrishutchins.com/personal-annual-review-2024-sahil-bloom
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Episodes
- #99: Top Ways to Make This Year Amazing and Seven Simple Questions for Your Annual Review with Sahil Bloom
- #52: Dial In Your Health (While Still Enjoying Life) with Liz Moody
- #178: How a Simple Change Can Improve Your Health, Sleep and More with James Nestor
- #170: Cash Back vs. Points: Are We Doing It All Wrong?
- #68: Hosting Cocktail Parties, Building Relationships, Museum Strategies and Friends Newsletters with Nick Gray
- #97: Optimizing Your Health: Diagnostic Tests, Choosing a Doctor, Sleep, Longevity, Inflammation and More with Dr. Jordan Shlain
Full Show Notes
(00:00) Introduction
(02:48) New Year's Resolutions: Planning vs. Reflecting
(03:38) How to Structure Your Personal Annual Review
(04:45) Q1: What Did You Change Your Mind About This Year?
(07:53) Documenting Monthly Experiences
(09:08) Biggest Changes in Chris and Sahil's Life
(14:29) 2024 Recap: Things Chris Changed His Mind About
(21:51) Q2: What Created Energy for You This Year?
(25:00) 2024 Recap: Things That Created Energy for Chris
(26:55) Q3: What Drained Your Energy This Year?
(31:25) 2024 Recap: Things That Drained Chris' Energy
(34:16) Q4: What (or Who) Were the Boat Anchors in Your Life?
(39:01) 2024 Recap: The Biggest Boat Anchor in Chris' Life
(41:01) Q5: What Did You Not Do Because of Fear?
(46:23) 2024 Recap: Things That Chris Didn't Do Out of Fear
(48:36) Q6: What Were Your Greatest Hits and Worst Misses?
(50:58) 2024 Recap: Chris’ Biggest Hits and Misses
(52:21) Q7: What Did You Learn This Year?
(53:54) 2024 Recap: The Most Important Lesson That Chris Learned This Year
(55:20) Practices to Make the Annual Review Process Easier
(57:18) Sahil’s 1-1-1 Journaling Method
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