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authorLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2023-10-31 19:40:35 +0200
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-The weekly review
-=================
-
-So you've got your lists set up, and you process your inboxes daily,
-and tasks flow smoothly through the projects and next actions lists.
-How do you know everything is OK? You need to take a look at every
-part of your GTD system, and your life, to make sure everything's in
-its right place, and you've not forgotten anything.
-
-The weekly review is a fundamentally important part of making sure
-you stay on top of things. You need to review all your lists, and
-calendars, inboxes, etc., and have a short meditative moment where
-you reflect your life, and try to think of anything you may have
-missed so far. If you do this regularly, and with some thoroughness,
-you'll be certain that you've captured everything into your system.
-
-You might not need to do such a review weekly. If you live a very
-calm, regular life, you might only do it rarely. On the other hand,
-if your life is a maelstrom, you might want to do a review more often
-than once a week. Experiment, and see what works for you.
-
-Here's my checklist for doing a weekly review:
-
-* Process inboxes.
-* Review journal entries since previous review. Write a summary of the
- highlights of what has happened.
-* Review calendar entries since previous review, and for the next month.
-* Empty head from things.
-* Review projects. Make sure each has at least one next action. Remove
- any projects that are finished or aborted, or move them to someday/maybe
- if that's appropriate.
-* Review next actions list. Are they all of good quality?
-* Review waiting for list and mail folder.
-* Review pending and support files:
- * physical folder at home
- * folder in e-mail
-* Review someday/maybe.
-* Review "Read and Review".
-* Review areas of focus, goals.
-* Re-process inbox.
-
-It usually takes me a couple of hours per week to do a good review of
-the entire system. Sometimes more, if I do a thorough review of all
-my open bug reports, for example, but I only do that if I have the
-time, and haven't done it in a while. (A thorough review of the bug
-reports tends to mean reading through everything, and sometimes checking
-that bugs still exist.)
-
-It's common for me to postpone doing a review, if I'm tired or busy
-or have any of a number of other excuses. If it gets really bad,
-I postpone the
-review for months. In that case, it can take a bit of an effort to do
-the review, which acts as further encouragement to push it forward.
-
-The way I get out of that is that I need to be reminded of the strong
-feeling of relief and being in control that I get after doing a review
-properly.
-I feel that I'm on top of things, that regardless of what surprises
-the universe may throw at me next, I know where I am now and what I need
-to do next. (And then I often go read the Internet instead, but that's
-another problem.)
-
-In fact, doing a review gives quite an energy spike for me. I feel
-motivated to work on things right after a review. Because of this, I
-try to schedule my reviews for Monday mornings rather than, say,
-Friday evenings.
-
-
-Other reviews
--------------
-
-In addition to the weekly review, it is good to have another kind of review
-about once or twice a year. For this, I find it's best to do a weekly
-review first, and then concentrate on bigger issues: what do I want
-out of life? How do I want to live in one year, five years, twenty years,
-or in my retirement? What do I need to do to achieve those things?
-
-I've not done much of that yet, so I don't have a lot of concrete advice
-about that. I'll add more about it when I do.
-