The strange thing about the weekly review
One of my big aha's about the Weekly Review was that if someone isn't really doing them, they're actually trying to do them all the time - just never finishing. In other words, there's a part of the psyche that is trying to get that sense of forest management (instead of tree-hugging), so it's sort of reviewing everything all the time in the psyche, but not doing a very good job, so it keeps at it.
So, a great way to think about doing the review (and when to do it) is to think about doing it as a way to stop doing it! (Does that make sense?) You want to finish that thinking process, so you can get on to other things. And, as you probably heard us say in the later chat together, as you begin to do them regularly, you tend to work the backlog down more and more, so you don't have such an enormous task at the end of the week. In my seminars i sometimes joke, "I think once a week". A thorough review lets me be kind of dumb and happy while I'm cruising through all the madness during the week, especially knowing that I'll get back there again. - David
