This podcast explores the benefits of performing a weekly review for individuals with ADHD, emphasizing reflection, planning, and decluttering. The importance of setting aside dedicated time, avoiding judgment, and focusing on wins is discussed. Practical tips for optimizing the weekly review process and enhancing productivity are provided.
Reflect on past week to plan for upcoming week with clarity and purpose.
Avoid self-judgment during weekly review to focus on improvement and solutions.
Deep dives
Importance of Weekly Review for Planning
Performing a weekly review allows individuals, especially those dealing with ADHD, to reflect on the past week's events and experiences. By understanding what worked well and what didn't, individuals can effectively plan for the upcoming week with clarity and purpose. This process helps in identifying wins, areas for improvement, and strategies to enhance productivity and focus.
Avoiding Self-Judgment During the Review
When conducting a weekly review, it is crucial to avoid self-judgment and harsh criticisms for uncompleted tasks or mistakes. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, the review serves as a tool to gather insights and develop solutions for future challenges. By maintaining a non-judgmental attitude, individuals can foster a positive approach towards self-improvement and productivity.
Scheduling and Consistency in Weekly Reviews
Establishing a dedicated time for the weekly review and integrating it into one's schedule is key to ensuring consistency and follow-through. By allocating around 15 to 30 minutes for the review, individuals can streamline the process and make it a manageable task. Setting reminders, using timers, and treating the review as a priority task help in forming a habit of regular weekly reflection and planning.
Hey team, this week we’re talking about our weeks and how we can get more out of them with a weekly review. The idea behind a weekly review is to look back on how things went and use that to help us figure out how we want our next week to go.
In this episode, we’re going to go over the benefits of performing a weekly review, look at some of the ways to make doing it easier, and then get into the nitty-gritty of how to actually perform it. Find the full show notes at HackingYourADHD.com/122 Feel free to ask me a question on my Contact PageThis Episode’s Top Tips
The point of a weekly review is for us to not only look back at what happened last week, but use that knowledge to help us plan out how we’re going to approach our next week. It allows us to gain clarity over what we’ve done and what we want to do.
When we’re performing our weekly review it is important to keep ourselves out of judgement - we’re not trying to beat ourselves up over anything we didn’t get to, we’re just looking to make next week better.
One of the most important things for making sure we complete our weekly review is to actually build in the time to perform it on our schedule. By building in and protecting our time to perform a weekly review we are far more likely to follow through on our intentions.
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