My First Annual Review: What Worked, What Didn’t Work, and What I Can Do Better

Welcome to my first annual review!

The goal of this review is to go over what worked and what didn’t work in the past year, what I believe I can do differently, and to lay out my goals publicly for the new year.

But first, a quick aside: I was talking with a friend recently about setting annual goals and I mentioned that writing down your goals makes you far more likely to actually achieve those goals.

I asked her if she had goals for 2013 and she said “yes.” Then I asked what they were and she said “isn’t that, like, a secret?”

I said no way! The more people you tell about your goals, the more people there are to keep you accountable and the more likely you will follow through on them.

What happens if you break a goal you kept as a secret to yourself? Not much.

And that’s why I’m sharing my goals for 2013.

There are two core focuses of this review: first, to look back and to reflect, and second, to look forward, using the lessons from the past year to set a clear path for the future.

The forward-looking hope is to define the outer contours of a plan for the next 12 months, including what matters to me and what I hope to achieve in the next year.

I was inspired to do this annual review by a number of others, but most of all it is an outgrowth of my focus in the past year on setting clear goals and planning out my work before jumping in to it.

But first, before I get into what I did well and not so well, here are a few specificground rules for this review:

1. I must be honest with what worked and what didn’t work in the past year. Lying to myself and others will not help me improve.
2. Goal themes may be broad, but specific goals must be concrete and tangible.
3. Part of setting goals is motivation — to motivate both you and me to work hard, take risks, and to achieve more. Setting modest, luke-warm goals doesn’t light anyone up, so I am most definitely not going for luke-warm in this annual review.

So let’s talk about what I did well, not so well, and where there’s room for improvement from the past year.

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