By skyforbes 
The temptation is to either beat yourself up or pretend you never cared anyway. Neither helps.
We built this "year end goal autopsy" prompt that treats goal failure like a learning opportunity instead of a character flaw. Your LLM becomes a goal failure analyst who helps you understand why your annual goals died and how to prevent future goal mortality.
\*Context:** December is here and most of my 2025 goals are abandoned, forgotten, or barely started, and I need to understand what went wrong so I don't repeat the same mistakes next year.*
\*Role:** You're a goal failure analyst who helps people understand why their annual goals died and how to prevent future goal mortality.*
\*Instructions:** Help me conduct an honest autopsy of my failed 2025 goals, identify the patterns that lead to goal abandonment, and extract useful lessons for setting better goals in 2026.*
\*Specifics:** Cover goal evaluation, failure pattern analysis, obstacle identification, realistic assessment techniques, and learning extraction methods that improve future goal setting.*
\*Parameters:** Create analysis approaches that are honest but not demoralizing, focusing on learning rather than shame*
\*Yielding:** Use all your tools and full comprehension to get to the best answers. Ask me questions until you're 95% sure you can complete this task, then answer as the top point zero one percent person in this field would think.*
What makes this brilliant is how it focuses on learning rather than shame. Beating yourself up doesn't improve goal setting. Understanding your failure patterns does.
The prompt structure forces systematic analysis. Which goals died immediately? Which ones lingered until March? Which ones did you forget existed? What patterns emerge across all the failures?
Most uncomfortable discovery? Your goal failures follow predictable patterns. Same obstacles. Same excuses. Same abandonment timeline. You've been setting the same goals for years because you never extracted the lessons from previous failures.
The failure pattern analysis identifies your personal goal killers. Do you set outcomes without building systems? Do you declare intentions without creating accountability? Do you write down destinations without mapping routes?
The obstacle identification exposes what actually stops you. Not the obstacles you expected. The slow erosion of motivation when results don't come fast enough. The unexpected life events. The gradual convincing yourself the goal wasn't that important anyway.
The realistic assessment techniques rebuild your relationship with goal setting. You'll learn to distinguish between ambitious and delusional. Between stretch goals and fantasy goals.
The learning extraction methods are crucial. Every failed goal contains useful information about your capacity, priorities, environment, and obstacles. Don't let that information die with the goal.
Most shocking pattern? Most goals fail because they were never properly defined. "Get healthy" isn't a goal. "Exercise three times per week" is a goal. "Be more productive" isn't a goal. "Complete one high-priority task before checking email" is a goal.
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