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Top Ways to Make This Year Amazing and Seven Simple Questions for Your Annual Review with Sahil Bloom
#99: Investor-turned-influencer and entrepreneur Sahil Bloom joins Chris to discuss performing a personal annual review. Sahil outlines the seven questions everyone should ask when reflecting on the previous year and establishing goals for the new one. Additionally, they offer strategies, tips, and advice to increase your happiness, energy, and sense of fulfillment while decreasing your stress and anxiety to make 2023 your year in terms of health, lifestyle, career, and finances.
Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) is among the most dynamic and up-and-coming financial personalities in the business world. Choosing to pursue a writing career that would be more fulfilling and rewarding, Sahil left his job in investment banking and private equity, recently launched a seed-stage venture fund, SRB Ventures, and writes a weekly newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle.
Full show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/annual-review-sahil-bloom
Partner Deals
Inside Tracker:
Athletic Greens:
Fabric:
Masterworks:
Sahil Bloom’s Resources
Sahil: Website | Newsletter | Twitter
Personal Annual Review
Annual Planning Guide
The Curiosity Chronicle: The 1-1-1 Method, Forecasts for the Future, & More | 23 Ways to Make 2023 Your Miracle Year | The Most Powerful Life Hacks
Selected Links From The Episode
Energy Calendar Technique
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Tim Ferriss: The 4-Hour Workweek | Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
Andrew Huberman: Light & Sun Exposure Guide | The Science & Use of Cold Exposure for Health & Performance
Drastically Reduce Stress with a Work Shutdown Ritual
Task Manager: Notion
Medical Testing: InsideTracker
Tracking Platforms: Wealthfront | Kubera | Trustworthy
Products: Hostage Tape | Cold Plunge Ice Bath
Money-Saving Site: Rakuten
Bangalore India Recommendation: Royal Afghan (ITC Windsor)
Chris’s India Recommendation: Hampi Rock Climbing
All the Hacks Episodes Mentioned
#9 How to Live Your Rich Life
#52 HAck Your Health (While Still Enjoying Life)
#68 Hosting Cocktail Parties, Building Relationships, Museum Hacks and Friends Newsletters
#97 Optimizing Your Health: Diagnostic Tests, Choosing a Doctor, Sleep, Longevity, Inflammation and More
#25 The Four Research-Backed Steps to Be Indistractable
#63 Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Becoming So Good They Can’t Ignore You
#10 Practical Money Hacks
Full Show Notes
Introduction (00:00)
New Year’s resolutions: Planning vs. Reflecting (01:28)
Personal annual review (02:17)
What did I change my mind about this year? (03:24)
What created energy for me? (13:10)
What drained my energy? (16:18)
What (or who) were the boat anchors in my life? (23:29)
What did I not do because of fear? (25:15)
What are my greatest hits and worst misses from the year? (30:44)
What did I learn this year? (33:06)
How to set the course for the year to figure out where you’re headed (34:46)
Journaling: Sahil’s 1-1-1 method (36:51)
Energy Calendar technique (40:31)
Taking breaks (45:58)
Batching emails into Windows (47:49)
Adjusting Twitter settings to promote productivity (50:56)
Learning to outsource your tasks (52:27)
Health: 5-5-5-30 (53:28)
Sahil’s morning routine (54:41)
Tech-free walk (56:02)
Time-restricted eating (56:58)
Basic diagnostics of who you are (57:14)
Stop using alarms (58:01)
Eat apples (59:10)
Personal power-down ritual (1:01:28)
Vocalize your appreciation (1:02:59)
Enjoying a meal by yourself (1:03:31)
Spending quality time with your family (1:04:05)
Setting up direct deposit for investments on a monthly basis (1:04:57)
Automating financial tasks (1:05:25)
Sahil’s 48-hour rule (1:05:54)
Chris’s money hacks (1:06:36)
Sahil’s Bangalore, India recommendation (1:09:33)
Chris’s India recommendation (1:10:31)
Where to find Sahil Bloom online (1:11:07)