Hi, this is Sarah Hart Unger and welcome to episode number two of best laid plans.

I decided that today's episode is going to be devoted to the weekly

review ritual that I do, ideally at the end of each week. I say ideally because I am not

perfect at getting this in every week. I wish that I was. But I do get it in pretty regularly,

and I find that doing it and taking the time to actually go through each step really makes me feel better about my entire system and therefore as an extension my entire life.

Because the thing is, you can't trust your planner system fully unless you know that you've taken the steps to make sure that it's current and actually reflects what's going on in your

life. And it's wonderful to have systems so that you don't forget the important things that are

involved in future planning, which is always less straightforward than it seems. So I actually do

have a physical list that I look at every time I do my own weekly review. I got the idea of a weekly review from David Allen,

who is very famous for his Getting Things Done book and overall methodology. And I'm a huge

fan of David Allen, but I do feel like I have added a few tweaks to his weekly review

so that I can call it my own weekly review ritual and process. I took the time to copy this

process into the accessory notebook that I keep in the back of my planner. I actually do need to

refresh myself because if I don't look at a physical list, it's very easy for me to forget a step.

And if I forget a step, I may regret that down the line. You'll kind of

see what I mean when I tell you what the steps are. So I figured for this exciting episode number

two, I would go through exactly what my weekly review steps look like and kind of maybe go off

on some tangents about why they can be important. Now, I guess I will start with a caveat

that is, my weekly review doesn't have to look like your weekly review. We can all do things

differently, and we probably do have different things that we need to keep track of. So I think it's

probably really important to look at as many people's weekly reviews as you can, because it

may be that elements from different people

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