It is an absolutely critical practice for aligning the smallest actions all the way through projects, goals, mission, and life purpose. The Monthly Review is a timeout from the continuous stream of weeks flashing by an oasis of calm to evaluate your priorities, values, and progress on a longer-term horizon. Accumulating change: how it influences personal growth.My learnings: what I’ve learned from doing it.Focus as structural integrity: how it produces focus.In this article, I’d like to do the same for my Monthly Review (MR).īecause the MR touches on deeper patterns in how I work and live, this article is going to be longer than the previous one. The list prints nicely to a single page, and ends with a trip to the vending machine as a reward.In The Weekly Review is an Operating System, I detailed the process I go through each week to capture any new open loops, clear my workspaces, and nail down the events and commitments for the week. Then to make sure I don’t miss something I later look specifically at those that don’t have an action associated (custom perspective but I would assume possible with other software). It also helps that my projects are split by areas of focus, some of which don’t need much in depth review to make sure things are on track. I usually can decide just looking through the list which ones I should spend actual time reviewing that week (and this is often tied to how much time I have - I’ll review more if I have 2-3 hours than if I just have 1 hour). The full list is below, but the unfortunate thing is a lot of the time is summarized in the step “Review projects list, dive deep into key projects” which is probably where the OF review feature would normally be used. Having the review printed helps me go through in a structured manner - heavily based on GTD weekly review with modifications for me. (For planning / higher level stuff I like paper checklists - so I have printed checklists for a weekly plan, a weekly review, daily tasks, and a monthly review). I have a separate printable checklist that I use every Friday afternoon for my review. I’m an Omnifocus user, but I don’t use the review function.
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