Notes from How to Win your Week

Weekly review

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Time and task audit

• Show me someones calendar and I’ll show you their values
• conduct occasional time audit
• review aged tasks
• whats get measured gets managed
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• why reviewing aged task is important
  • quick capture trade-off (GTD bankruptcy)
  • 3 months old - will you really do it
  • JUST LET IT GO

Reflection - Cultivating self-awareness

Ask your alignment questions:

• What’s the pebble in my shoe?
• Am I living the life I choose for myself? Does how I spend my time align with what I value?
• Did I love well?
• Am I utilizing my strengths?
• How can I foster curiosity and compassion?
• What if it were easy?
• What am I avoiding?

Vision setting - Am I headed in the right direction

How to eliminate $100 Work:

• Are my domains and $10K questions still the right ones?
• Answer your North Star questions
• Future-casting over different intervals (1, 3, 5 years)
• Frequency: Quarterly

Planning & Prioritization - Your Anchor

• The GTD-style Review
• Indispensable and holds the system together
• Enables lack of due dates
• Sets your DO dates
• Tend to Domains (and ImportantNot Urgent)
• Frequency: WEEKLY (without fail), 25 minutes max

Small checklist - Do the review under 25’

1. Assign 5 units of $10K work or “Thinking Time” using do dates
2. Repeat the process for $1,000 work
3. Review aged tasks and waiting on
4. Set next actions
5. If you could only work 2 hours each day, what would you do?

Linking

• MOC 10K$ framework
• [[Midjourney V6 prompts examples/050-059 Resources/themes/58 Agile/Eisenhower Matrix|Eisenhower Matrix]]
• Getting Things Done

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