Your Personal Annual Review: 7 Questions
An indispensable guide to looking back at 2025 -- in order to thrive in 2026
One of my favorite newsletters is The Curiosity Chronicle, by Sahil Bloom, author of The Five Types of Wealth.
Although on the surface, Sahil and I have very different “vibes,” we’ve become great friends, and I find his work to be so full of practical insights that I often find myself sending it to friends and family members. Sahil is also the guest-author of one of our most popular Kindred Letters, How Many Moments Do You Have Left With Your Loved Ones?
Today, I’m honored to welcome him back - on the subject of how to conduct a Personal Annual Review. Here’s Sahil:
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The Personal Annual Review
It’s hard to believe that 2025 is already coming to a close.
The end of the calendar year presents us with a valuable, yet easily overlooked, opportunity:
In our rush to look forward and plan for the year that will be, we often fail to reflect on the year that was.
But a failure to reflect will eventually result in a failure to grow.
I started conducting a Personal Annual Review over a decade ago. It’s been a life-changing exercise—one with an outsized impact on my personal and professional growth and transformation.
Today’s piece shares the structure for my Personal Annual Review.
I hope that it will spark you to conduct your own before year-end, as I know you will gain incredible value from the exercise.
Here are the 7 simple questions that may change your life: