Your Weekly Review: The Key to Being Productive, Staying Well, and Achieving Your Goals

The weekly review is an essential pillar of the wellbeing-driven productivity approach.

It is the key to achieving your goals, maximising your mental health and wellbeing, and getting things done.

This article will explain what a weekly review is, why it’s important, and how to do it consistently.

What is a Weekly Review?

Productivity expert and author David Allen describes the weekly review as a time to:

Gather and process all your stuff.

Review your system.

Update your lists.

Get clean, clear, current and complete.

(Allen, 2015).

Allen offers an excellent description, but it makes the weekly review sound far more extensive than needed. A comprehensive weekly review takes me 20 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. I look back, look forward and do a few administrative tasks. That’s it.

How I Carry Out a Weekly Review

I have a template for my weekly review in Tana (but you could set up something similar on a different platform or in your journal).