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My weekly review habit 

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11.3.25
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Each week, set aside a few hours to think about how your week went and how you can make it better next week.
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“The best advice often seems blindingly obvious in hindsight. After taking it, you wonder how you ever survived without it.”

​- Calvin French-Owen, Secrets of the Weekplan 

For me, the purpose of each weekly review is to:

  1. Make me aware of the things that aren’t going well in my life (from execution inefficiencies to the broader direction of my ambition).
  2. Give me one iteration / shot to fix that (or at the very least, collect more data points on it) via (a) meta-goals (habits) and (b) deliverables I want to focus on for that week.

I also have a set of recurring prompts that I think about every week. I tweak them over time as they get stale, but some examples would be:

  • Was I consistent at my core habits this week (exercise, morning routine, todo system, etc.)? How can I tweak them to be more consistent or more useful?
  • What did I do this week that was a mistake and how can I avoid repeating it?
  • How much of this week did I spend on stuff that was truly my comparative advantage ? For everything else, how can I get out of the loop?