Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is July of 2021.

And as I mentioned, I am going to be taking a little bit of a break from new episodes during this month.

However, I thought it would be really fun to bring you some of our greatest hits from the archives.

We may not have, you know, piles and hundreds of archive episodes, but there are still some

really fun past episodes and guests that I would love to re-share with you from previous months.

So I've picked four of my favorites and we'll be airing them this month before I am back with brand new content

in August. So here we go with our first previous favorite episode. Hi, this is Sarah Hart Unger and welcome to episode number two of best laid plans.

I decided that today's episode is going to be devoted to the weekly review ritual that I do,

ideally at the end of each week. I say ideally because

I am not perfect at getting this in every week. I wish that I was. But I do get it in pretty

regularly and I find that doing it and taking the time to actually go through each step

really makes me feel better about my entire system and therefore as an extension my

entire life because the thing is you can't trust your planner system fully unless you know that

you've taken the steps to make sure that it's current and actually reflects what's going on in your

life and it's wonderful to have systems so that you don't forget the important things that are involved in future planning, which is always less straightforward than it seems.

So I actually do have a physical list that I look at every time I do my own weekly review.

I got the idea of a weekly review from David Allen, who is very famous for his Getting Things Done book and overall methodology.

And I'm a huge fan of David Allen, but I do feel like I have added a few tweaks to his

weekly review so that I can call it my own weekly review ritual and process.

I took the time to copy this process into the accessory notebook that I keep in the back of my planner.

I actually do need to refresh myself because if I don't look at a physical list, it's very

easy for me to forget a step. And if I forget a step, I may regret that down the line.

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