I had a light bulb moment a few days ago. It reminded me that there is always room for improvement and that sometimes it just takes a bit longer for best practices to sink in ... I'm been a champion of David Allen's for a few years now and I follow the tenets of Getting Things Done as they best suit my system. As anyone will tell you (if they're being honest) working with any system is a work-in-progress and there's always room for improvement. Last weekend during my Weekly

It's been over two months since I first engaged with you to start a Weekly Review. We started small at 15 minutes, a month later I counselled you to increase it to 25 minutes. I wrote to you a few weeks ago about how I had also started a second more informal, personal weekly review to tighten up loose ends at home and in my personal life. So now, my Weekly Review has increased to 45-60 minutes, with little or no fan-fare. I don't even notice the extra time spent at my desk;

The time I was devoting to starting my own business was eating into my personal obligations, so much so that I felt I was letting my personal commitments fall by the wayside. My work Weekly Review was holding my job responsibilities in check but I wasn't meeting my personal obligations. My solution to this problem was to do a more informal weekly review to bring this back in check. My first step was to commit to writing out a to-do list every Friday night and following thro

Some weeks we are are more successful working with our systems than others. There are some weekends when Sunday night rolls around and our Weekly Review's not done and we are just too exhausted to even open our computers. So Monday morning arrives and we haven't prepared ourselves as well as we would have liked for the week but hey, stuff happens. But we get through the week; the office didn't go up in flames, Wall Street didn't collapse and so maybe we let another week go