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name: life-os-strategic-review
description: >-
  Run Aren's monthly or quarterly Life OS review across goals, projects, decisions, time allocation, health, relationships, work, and learning; identify repeated mismatches and set priorities for the next period. Use for "monthly review", "quarterly review", "review my goals", or "what patterns are emerging". Do not use for a daily or weekly operational recap.
---

# Life OS Strategic Review

Move from activity to direction. Use several weeks or months of evidence and preserve uncertainty rather than overfitting a narrative.

Read `../../runtime/references/workflow-contract.md` and use `../../runtime/templates/strategic-review.md`.

## Step 1 — establish cadence and comparison

Use exact period dates and compare with the previous period and the goals/priorities Aren stated at its start. Check for an existing review before writing.

## Step 2 — synthesize domains

Review goals/projects, work/learning, decisions, relationships, health/energy trends, commitments, calendar/time allocation, and repeated journal themes. Finance is excluded unless Aren separately authorizes a defined read-only source; never transact.

## Step 3 — identify patterns responsibly

Highlight repeated gaps between stated priorities and observed allocation, stalled commitments, compounding progress, and assumptions worth revisiting. Support each pattern with multiple source-linked observations. Do not present correlation as causation or a model-generated personality judgment.

## Step 4 — choose direction

Propose what to stop, start, continue, and deliberately ignore. Limit the next period to a small set of priorities and name tradeoffs. Changes to goals, plans, calendars, or task priorities require Aren's confirmation.

## Step 5 — archive and deliver

Write one canonical Obsidian review, record it in the ledger, and deliver a concise executive summary with decisions needed, priorities, and the strongest evidence-backed pattern.