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How to keep a consistent weekly review
Chris Bowler | Feb 7 2008
Greetings ninjas I have spent the last year trying the various ideas\themes that Mr. Allen listed in his book. And with the help of great resources like 43Folders, a lot of those ideas have helped me stay organized, accomplish goals and have reduced my overall stress. But there is one GTD concept I have struggled with consistently. And that is keeping a regular weekly review. And no matter what kind of system (paper or electronic etc), no matter how efficient that system, without a regular weekly review, the system quickly loses it usefulness. Then I stop trusting the system, my stress rises, and I start figuring out how to make a better system (another problem all of it's own). It seems pretty obvious to me when I remove myself from the flurry of incoming tasks and information - if I could consistently keep a weekly review, my system would enable me to reach ninja levels of productivity. Does anyone else struggle with the review? And does anyone have some tips and tricks to help a person stick to doing a weekly review? 6 Comments
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 RE: How to keep a consistent weekly reviewSubmitted by anothervenue on February 8, 2008 - 7:35am.
I dunno if this helps, as I haven't been using GTD very long, but do you have your weekly review as a project, or penciled in on your calendar to be done at a certain time? If you don't have it on the "hard landscape" it seems to me as though you may end up giving yourself permission to feel OK about not doing it. I also think maybe we should shift our paradigms about the weekly review, as being an exciting time to look over all the tings we are, will be and have been accomplishing in our lives, as opposed to this huge daunting task. On that same note, I could be completely insane...but its working out well for me so far. » POSTED IN:
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