2-day "Staff" Retreat
My spouse and I do what we call our annual staff retreat. Yes, we're nerds that way!
It involves a mix of practical and visioning.
The practical: we review and update our joint budget and financial goals, we review our home maintenance calendar and assign responsibilities for upcoming projects, and we plan which weeks we'll take vacations both ones together and seprately.
Visioning:
pre-retreat we do a reflection process laid out in the "Not So Big Life" book so we share that at the retreat, this year we're also looking at our 40,000ft drawings that we did earlier this year, we also update our relationship grid- which is a tool I think we cobbled together ourselves where we list key goals in different areas of our lives like money, friendships, health and what support we want from each other to encourage that, and last but not least we figure out what kind of vacations we want to have -locations, experiences, with other friends or just us.
We've been doing it for about 5 yrs now and it's really valuable. One more thing is that we actual have a written agenda and we each take responsibility for the different areas of prep. So we do think of it and take it as seriously as a business meeting which makes the actual time together that much richer.
