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Shelley's avatar

Inspired, I believe, by a comment in one of these threads, I took Jessica Abel’s Creative Focus Workshop, which has helped me integrate weekly reviews into my workflow for the first time. I am a list keeper so I often had periods of doing reviews but the metrics belonged to somebody else. My goal is not, for example, to “get things done,” or even to divide my whole life into quadrants (urgent/important/not-urgent/not-important). Once I understood what MY goal was— to encourage progress in my current project— reviewing that progress suddenly felt not just organic, but vital

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Hannah Smith's avatar

I love this idea Austin!

Since January, I've been doing a weekly reflection exercise (I do this on a Monday morning) - essentially I write a list of "Good Sh*t" that happened the week before. (This might be stuff I've enjoyed working on, stuff I've finished, stuff I've done, stuff or people I've seen, things I've read, etc).

It doesn't quite serve the same function as your review (i.e. I'm deliberately looking back, not forward), but I tend to use it to help figure out what to focus on for the week ahead. I've been finding it really helpful because I've been struggling with Long Covid, and I realised that I was becoming way too focused on the things I hadn't done (and getting frustrated with myself), as opposed to being happy about than the things I had done. This exercise has definitely helped me tonnes in terms of mindset - I'd definitely recommend it.

Worth noting: I'm sure I stole this idea from someone else, but sadly I have no idea who I stole it from - does this sound familiar to anyone?

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