Why does my weekly review fail?
The review that works is the one you will still do in a bad week. That means twenty minutes, a fixed checklist and no requirement to fix everything you find.
What matters here
- A long review is skipped when the week is busy
- No checklist means starting from a blank page
- Reviewing everything at once is exhausting
- The review has no fixed time in the calendar
- Small and repeatable beats thorough and rare
The checklist
Four questions: what happened, what is open, what is next, what am I ignoring. Answering them takes fifteen minutes and produces a plan. Anything more is optional and usually skipped anyway.
Why thoroughness backfires
A review that requires reading every old task becomes a chore you postpone. Postponing once makes postponing twice easy, and the habit dies without a decision.
Protecting the slot
Put it in the calendar at a time you are usually free, and accept a shorter version when you are not. Fifteen minutes on a bad week is worth more than a perfect hour that never happens.
Frequently asked questions
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