Weekend Power Deposit: Build Your Year-End Review Checklist

This weekend, put the full year-end review together.

Use this structure:

Year-End Business Review

Year Reviewed:
[Year]

1. Year-in-Review Summary

What happened this year?

2. Best Work of the Year

• Best customer:
• Best service:
• Best project:
• Best review:
• Best referral source:
• Best system built:
• Best decision:
• Best lesson:

3. Money and Customer Patterns

• Top income source:
• Most reliable income:
• Best-fit customer:
• Hardest customer:
• Best repeat-business opportunity:
• Service to promote more:
• Service to rethink:

4. Stress and Friction

• Most avoided task:
• Most repeated problem:
• Biggest time leak:
• Biggest energy drain:
• Boundary needed:
• System needed:

5. Keep, Stop, Improve

Keep:

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Stop:

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Improve:

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6. One Sentence About the Year

Example:

This was the year I stopped relying only on memory and started building systems that make the business easier to run.

Or:

This was the year I learned which work I want more of and which work needs better boundaries.

7. First Focus for Next Year

The first area to focus on next year is:

That final focus matters.

Do not finish the review with a giant list and no direction.

Pick one starting focus.

Not the whole year.

The first focus.

Examples:

Pricing clarity.
Repeat business.
Local visibility.
Customer onboarding.
Content consistency.
Receipt and money tracking.
Service page cleanup.
Referral relationships.

That is enough.

A year-end review should close the year and point to the next useful move.

Not crush you under ambition.

Weekend Power Deposit:
Complete one year-end review and choose the first focus for next year.

Prompt:
Can I look at the year clearly enough to know what worked, what drained me, what needs improvement, and what should come first next year?

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