Career and annual reviews
- Finish the project you keep deprioritizing.
- Hit a specific, measurable work goal.
- Learn a skill your role actually needs.
- Ask for the feedback you've been avoiding.
Annual bingo
Annual bingo makes a full year of goals visible.
An annual goal list usually lives in a notes app and gets opened twice a year - once to write it, once to feel bad about it. Annual bingo puts the same goals on a 5 by 5 board instead, so the whole year's progress is visible at a glance, not buried in a list.
What is annual bingo?
Annual bingo is a year-long bingo board: 25 squares covering the goals, habits, and milestones you want out of the next twelve months. It works for personal annual goals and for annual reviews at work - performance goals, learning targets, and projects all fit the same finishable-square format.
Health and annual checkups
- Book the appointments you keep putting off.
- Hit a fitness target you can measure.
- Build one habit that sticks past 90 days.
- Fix the sleep schedule, not just talk about it.
Finance and annual budget goals
- Save a specific amount by year end.
- Review and trim subscriptions.
- Pay off one specific debt.
- Build or top up an emergency fund.
Personal and yearly traditions
- Start a tradition worth repeating next year.
- Take the trip you talk about every January.
- Finish a personal project from start to end.
- Do one thing purely because it sounds fun.
How to build an annual bingo board
- List out the goals you want from the year, work and personal.
- Rewrite vague goals as squares with a clear finish line.
- Spread squares across the year instead of stacking them all in January.
- Check in monthly so the board stays current, not aspirational.
- Use it at your actual annual review - finished squares are evidence.