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It has been a few months, so let's have another guided review. Experience what David Allen calls the "critical success factor" with GTD, by going through a complete GTD Weekly Review®. You'll experience all 11 steps of the process, with practical advice along the way. Don't clean for housekeeping — bring your GTD system just as it is.

September 5, 2024 8:00AM–9:30AM Pacific Time

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I’ve noticed that the Weekly Review is super helpful for staying organized, but honestly, it can be hard to keep up with if you’re not in the routine. I’ve skipped it a few times, and it definitely throws me off balance. Going through the full review, like the one David Allen suggests, really helps get things in perspective, though. It's a great way to make sure nothing’s slipping through the cracks. Just be sure to have your system ready to go, so you can dive in without needing to catch up first.
 
I never skip a weekly review. It is the most important time of my week. I notice that sometime week are so intensive that everything fall to the cracks. So the weekly review is the only thing that can drive me back in the wagon.`

I stick to it and to Omnifocus. Thanks to it the review is quite fast (1:00 +/-) . It is not the only one. I also do some reviews but more stratégic.

My habit it to take my GTD paper guide and Open Omnifocus. I open my check list which details evert aspects (checklist) and I update Omnifocus. I love this review. I feel much better when it is finished.

The most difficult for me is to stick to my plans during the upcoming week. Sometime life is so unpredictable that I need to adapt what I fixed the last Friday. However it is a great guideline for me. Omnifocus has an internal perspective which plan the review when I want it so I can review with project must be and drop others for later or never.
 
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FocusGuy said:
I never skip a weekly review. It is the most important time of my week. I notice that sometime week are so intensive that everything fall to the cracks. So the weekly review is the only thing that can drive me back in the wagon.`

I stick to it and to Omnifocus. Thanks to it the review is quite fast (1:00 +/-) . It is not the only one. I also do some reviews but more stratégic.

My habit it to take my GTD paper guide and Open Omnifocus. I open my check list which details evert aspects (checklist) and I update Omnifocus. I love this review. I feel much better when it is finished.

The most difficult for me is to stick to my plans during the upcoming week. Sometime life is so unpredictable that I need to adapt what I fixed the last Friday. However it is a great guideline for me. Omnifocus has an internal perspective which plan the review when I want it so I can review with project must be and drop others for later or never.
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@FocusGuy

"The most difficult for me is to stick to my plans during the upcoming week. Sometime life is so unpredictable. . . ."

On this end had the same issue plus numbness-slippage [in paper]:

Resolved with one piece of paper . . . Calendar and Next Actions 'pulled' from "digital GTD deposit" :

Since the the weekly battle can be war . . . strategically divided to conquer through easiest as possible Chrono's / Kairos through rhythmic engagement(s)

Side 'One': Thursday . . . Friday . . . Saturday . . . Sunday / Contexts

Side ''Two': Monday . . . Tuesday . . . Wednesday / Contexts

As you see GTD fit. . . .
 
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gtdstudente said:
Resolved with one piece of paper . . . Calendar and Next Actions 'pulled' from "digital GTD deposit" :

Since the the weekly battle can be war . . . strategically divided to conquer through easiest as possible Chrono's / Kairos through rhythmic engagement(s)

Side 'One': Thursday . . . Friday . . . Saturday . . . Sunday / Contexts

Side ''Two': Monday . . . Tuesday . . . Wednesday / Contexts
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Hello @gtdstudente Interesting. Would you share a picture to understand how you make it ? Thanks.
 
FocusGuy said:
Hello @gtdstudente Interesting. Would you share a picture to understand how you make it ? Thanks.
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@FocusGuy

Best GTD picture musterable would be the following GTD reiteration

In addition to all of the GTD nuances GTD has to offer for mind like water

To diminish 'numbness' and find that, and at least seemingly in the 'Anglo world', the seven-day week tends to operate as two three-day weeks, unless perhaps one is short-handed and needs to keep cows milk on a dairy farm, etc.

To avoid any ever so subtle 'scarcity concerns'; normally do the following using ubiquitous plain white copier-paper which always seems to be available*

Thus, on one Chrono's side:

MONDAY . . . TUESDAY . . . WEDNESDAY with vertical lines between the days . . . as easy as possible


on the other side [upside-down]:

THURSDAY . . . FRIDAY . . . SATURDAY with vertical lines between the days . . . as easy as possible

SUNDAY has changed from prior post to a singular piece of paper for appropriately engaging in restorative [dis]engagement


However, SUNDAY could look appropriately different if it were part of a 'Weekend-Getaway' as an easy example:

FRIDAY . . . SATURDAY . . . SUNDAY

As an added capacity, to keep 'something critical' for the coming THURSDAY off mind, then the 'first-half' of the 'three-day week' sheet could then offer the following appropriate objectiveness, very interestingly, without the 'numbness' fuse blowing due to its particular appropriate engagement:

MONDAY . . . TUESDAY . . . WEDNESDAY . . . THURSDAY



Contexts are ABC . . . Always Be Completing . . . are Kairos . . . at least as much as opportunity offers or able to muster with interment restorative rest always being something very productively worthwhile for healthy completion


As you see GTD fit. . . .


* 8"x11" three-folding for eight-panel capturing tool and potentially sixteen if/when both sides are used
 
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I just listened to this episode on the podcast on my way to work yesterday and it put a "pep in my step" and I feel I had a great day clearing the decks and resetting yesterday!
 
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