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This is issue #25 of Taskflow Tuesday, where I share 3 things that can help you to get digitally organized so that you can spend more time on what truly matters.
🗓️ 1. Weekly Review
The Weekly Review is a keystone habit (a foundational behavior that triggers positive changes in other areas of life) that holds my week together and keeps me on top of my schedule like nothing else.
It's your chance to take a step back, assess where you're at, and make sure nothing important slips through the cracks.
By regularly checking in on your tasks and priorities, you'll remain organized and clear on what your week has in store.
Here’s a good example of a weekly review. Take it and tailor it to your specific schedule, goals, and responsibilities.
Weekly Review Example:
Set Time: Choose a specific day and time for your review.
Goals: Review progress on goals, adjust if needed.
Tasks: Update task list, prioritize, and schedule.
Inbox: Process emails, flag for follow-up.
Projects: Assess project status and needs.
Calendar: Confirm meetings and deadlines.
Plan: Schedule focused work sessions.
Progress Report: Summarize last week's accomplishments.
Next Steps: Set clear objectives for the week ahead.
My wife and I have a standing meeting every Saturday where we go through our own Weekly Review to make sure we are on the same page. It’s been a huge upgrade for our life and our marriage.
🎯 2. How to Focus
In his brilliant article, How to Focus and Concentrate Better, James Clear emphasizes the importance of focus and commitment in achieving goals, highlighting the tendency to get overwhelmed by options.
Here are my top 5 takeaways:
Commit to one specific task or goal at a time.
Start before feeling fully prepared; taking action breeds focus.
Focus on fundamentals rather than getting bogged down in details.
Prioritize actions that align with long-term goals, ignoring distractions.
Embrace discomfort and uncertainty, knowing that commitment leads to progress.
🚜 3. A Warning from Wendell
In a world obsessed with productivity and doing more faster, the farmer-prophet gives a word of warning.
“Industrial agriculture, built according to the single standard of productivity, has dealt with nature, including human nature, in the manner of a monologist or an orator. It has not asked for anything, or waited to hear any response. It has told nature what it wanted, and in various clever ways has taken what it wanted. And since it proposed no limit on its wants, exhaustion has been its inevitable and foreseeable result. This, clearly, is a dictatorial or totalitarian form of behavior, and it is as totalitarian in its use of people as it is in its use of nature. Its connections to the world and to humans and the other creatures become more and more abstract, as its economy, its authority, and its power become more and more centralized.”
― Wendell Berry
That’s all for now! Have a great day. 👊🏼
David
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