🌱 Relationship reflection questions (template + cabin retreat)

Here are your 3-minute insights to make connections with yourself and those around you. 

🪵 Cabin Retreat 

My girlfriend and I just got back from a cabin retreat an hour outside of Austin. 

Just her and I (and her dog Shadow) to celebrate our 1 year (dating) anniversary.

Some great hikes, morning coffee views, and of course…

I prepped some “reflection questions” for us too (fun!). 

I had saved this viral tweet of great questions for “deeptalk with your partner.”

Then, I put the questions into Claude and gave it more context (this was our one-year anniversary, staying at a cabin, and I wanted to reflect but also space it out a few days and keep it light, etc.).

And organized it into a Google Doc for us:

Here’s the Google Doc to make a copy for your own relationship reflections!

⬅️ Last Year’s Reflection

Okay, this is kinda crazy. 

Last year on December 17, 2023, I wrote my year-end review. 

I put a forward-looking “dream life” section, imagining I am one year into the future, looking back at the year (so written Dec 2023, but as if I was at the end of Dec 2024 looking back at the year). 

The number one thing I wrote was “girlfriend who is beautiful, smart, and funny.”

Then, 10 days later (12/27/23), I went on the first date with my now gf, who is exactly all three of those things.

But look, I’ll be the first to admit it…

This stuff can maybe be a little woo-woo. 

And sure, sometimes it doesn’t work. 

BUT.

Sometimes, it does... 

So, it seems like a crazy asymmetric bet that anyone would be foolish not to place. Because, why not?

Basically, you can write out your dream life that would light you up like a Hanukkah menorah — and sometimes it all doesn’t come true, but sometimes it does?! Sign me up for all 8 nights of that please.

⏲️ Tracking

I interviewed Marshall Haas in Dallas this week. 

He sold his company for $52 million dollars this year. (bonkers)

The video will come out next month, but one thing he mentioned I immediately started experimenting with… is time tracking.  

Every day, he’d track his time spent on each business using the Harvest Chrome extension. 

Now, before you groan at the idea of tracking everything… consider this.

The calendar is a great tool to attempt time blocking, but in reality, everything shifts around throughout the day.  

So time tracking with something like Harvest, is a great lookback tool. (See what you actually worked on and for how long.)

Plus, it puts you “on the clock,” which turns work into a fun game. 

I don’t recommend tracking everything, but I do think it can be useful to start with just a few key projects.

I gotta keep this thing under 45 minutes, so gotta go! 

Salud,
Mitchell 

Ps. To make 2025 your dream year, what do you want accountability or help with? (hit reply) 

Salud,
Mitchell