Well, love might not always be the right word, but you get the picture. I mean, who loves getting up at 5am, to write weekly blog posts on plant and soil science and PhD stuff and random life stuff? Who else loves shouting into a void for six months until a Google bot starts acknowledging they exist? Not. It’s a process of identifying the things that no-one else can do, or maybe I would clarify and say that it’s the unique blend of things that no-one else can (or currently) do. It’s like use all the things that make you, you, to help rather than hinder your progress. The other thing he said was to “lean into your unique abilities”. This is of course my opinion and others may disagree, which is likely dependent on the personal method you choose.įinding things that you can stop doing as well as start is very helpful.
And a weekly review roadmap helps to do just that evolve yourself to fit the niche you’ve identified.
But finding your niche requires understanding what works and what doesn’t. To give it an ecological term it’s a roadmap to find and fit into your niche. It should be written down, either digitally or physically. Ultimately the personal weekly review, is a weekly process to identify how what you have done in the past, can help navigate you into the future. The weekly review for me, is about showing up and taking responsibility for my actions. What actually is a personal ‘Weekly Review’? So I’ve combined components of these ideas to get something a little more personal, shorter, easier and well, more likely that I will do it. I wanted something a bit more streamlined. As far as I’m concerned I need something to orientate my week, not plan it to the nth degree like most weekly reviews seem to advocate. So these weren’t such good approaches for me.īut that’s my opinion of course. These are all well and good but really extend into scheduling, keeping things tidy and organisation rather than ‘a review’. People like Tiago Forte also take similar, more complex approaches which include making sure all your inboxes are cleared out and that your desktop is tidy. But I wouldn’t be writing a researched article if I didn’t Google what others did.Īlthough I haven’t read it, the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen, I think pioneered the idea of a weekly review this todoist guide makes this method sound so complicated and difficult though. Basing it around these approaches were fine for me. These two approaches made the idea seem friendly and useful. And furthermore, because these are designed to be done within the work day, they are time efficient. This approach can also have metrics applied to it. They advocate weekly reviews (both personally and reflecting as a group) to keep on track with their 12 week year approach to business targets. Moran and Michael Lennington (I briefly reviewed this in my June 2022 Book Club for One). The idea around my starting one also came from “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. The 12 Week Year and my grubby number buttons on my keyboard! Photo by Annette Raffan.
#TODOIST WEEKLY REVIEW SERIES#
If you missed it, it was part of the “Linking Your Thinking” 2022 conference by Nick Milo, the whole series of which is definitely worth a watch in your downtime if you’re suffering from information overload like me… He does a quarterly review, where he takes himself off somewhere nice and reflects on the past 3 months and the next 3 months. I was first exposed to the idea of a personal review by Mike Schmitz, during a live webinar called “Gaining Clarity with an Obsidian Retreat”. Where did the idea of a Weekly Review come from? And boy do a lot of people seem to make it complicated. It can be as simple or as complex as you like. Other than that, the scope of it, is pretty much up to you. A weekly review is, however, also designed to look backwards as well as forwards. It could be where you set out your calendar for the week, or the goals over the next 7 days and/or a list of gratitudes.
Now they can take different forms for different people but the idea is that it helps you keep focused on your work and/or personal aspirations.
I’ve been doing weekly personal reviews since the middle of June. A bit like the temptation to eat this juicy strawberry… Photo by Annette Raffan. Perhaps you’ll be tempted to do a weekly review after reading this post.
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