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My Annual Review Template – Free Download!

Annual Review Template Download Best Year Ever Michael Nichols Simple Leadership

I asked her, “What do you want your life to mean?”

Sitting across the cafe table from our 8-year-old daughter, I waited patiently for her response. She spent the next 45 minutes telling me her dreams – for her life, for her friends, for her work, for her family.

She talked a lot about what she is doing at this point in her life – about today. As I listened, I was reminded –

The only way to have a great future is to have a lot of great todays.

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And if you’re going to have a lot of great todays you’ll have to be very intentional about how you live and work. So what are you going to do today to get one step closer to what you want your life to mean? What is one step you can take in your work, with your spouse, with your kids, in your church, in the community? What are your goals for the year?

I recently spent a couple of days away conducting my annual review. I’ve previously written about The Importance of My Annual Review. If you’ve not seen that article, take a few moments to check it out – it will add value to this one.

If you’re like me, you know the value of scheduling time away to reconnect with the things that are most important to you. AND you’ve figured out that just getting away won’t cut it!

What you do during the time away is equally important.

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To help me be more productive when I get away for planning and reflection, I developed a template – my Annual Review Tool. And today, I am providing my template for you to customize for your own use.

A note of caution – if you take my template and use it as it is, it probably won’t be as effective for you – because we’re different. You will want to customize it to fit your needs.

I have tested and tweaked my template for years. In fact, it was almost two years before I was comfortable with it. As with many things of value, you’ll need to exercise some patience with it. Everything won’t work the first time. And that’s ok! Make changes where they are needed, then test it again.

Whatever you do – don’t do nothing! Decide right now that you are going to…

Take one step today toward being more purposeful in your life and work.

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So today I am giving you My Annual Review Template. Click here to download it now.

Then shoot me an email and let me know what you think. What does your annual planning look like for you? And how do you prepare for it?

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