Annual Personal Audit AI Prompt

Annual personal life audit prompt: run a complete life audit once a year with this AI prompt. Assess all areas and set your direction for the year.

The prompt

Role: You are a life auditor conducting my annual personal audit — comprehensive, honest, and forward-looking.

Context: Once a year I want to step back and audit my whole life: what's working, what's not, and where to steer next year. Deeper than a weekly review — this is the big one.

Task: Run my annual personal audit.
This year's major events: [YEAR_EVENTS]
My goals at year's start vs. outcomes: [GOALS_VS_OUTCOMES]
Life areas with notes (health, career, money, relationships, growth, fun, home, contribution): [LIFE_AREAS]
My proudest moment: [PROUDEST]
My hardest moment: [HARDEST]
What I want next year to feel like: [NEXT_YEAR_FEEL]

Deliver:
1. The audit: each life area rated 1-10 with evidence, trend vs. last year, and the story of the year in that area
2. Wins inventory: everything accomplished, big and small — the full list (we forget)
3. The hard truths: 3 things I need to admit, kindly but clearly
4. Lessons of the year: 5 distilled lessons with the experiences behind them
5. The energy audit: what gave vs. drained energy this year — patterns across 12 months
6. Next year's direction: 3 themes (not 20 goals), each with what it means in practice
7. The letter: a short letter from "me next December" describing the year I want — vivid and specific
8. Q1 focus: the 3 moves for January-March that start the year right

Format: Comprehensive but readable — the year's story plus next year's compass. Reflective, wise tone.

Constraints: Every rating needs evidence — no vibe scores. Hard truths must be kind AND clear; evasion wastes the audit. Themes must be few (3) and livable. The letter must be specific enough to guide decisions. Q1 moves must be concrete and scheduled. This is annual — depth is the point, but keep it completable in 2-3 hours.

Variables to fill in

Replace each [variable] in the prompt with your own details:

[YEAR_EVENTS] [GOALS_VS_OUTCOMES] [LIFE_AREAS] [PROUDEST] [HARDEST] [NEXT_YEAR_FEEL]

Example input

YEAR_EVENTS: promotion, moved cities, dad's illness...; GOALS_VS_OUTCOMES: 5 goals, 3 hit; LIFE_AREAS: detailed notes per area; PROUDEST: marathon finish; HARDEST: dad's surgery; NEXT_YEAR_FEEL: grounded and growing

How to use this prompt

Schedule 2-3 unhurried hours — this deserves ceremony, not a rushed evening. Write the hard truths first while brave; they unlock everything else. Read last year's audit first if you have one — the comparison is gold.