Questions to ask yourself at the end of the week.

Howdy,

I recently started shadow work, which is the journaling process of digging into the darker aspects of yourself. I plan to add some challenges and prompts before the end of the year, but this has lead me to doing more task work – keeping task counts at work. Even if I stop or forget one week, I try to come back and do it.

Here are some useful questions if you are looking to review your week. Super simple here, some feel good and some more intense ones to help you focus or improve on your processes. Remember not everything can be 100% all the time and that is okay.

1. What worked well?
2. What did a I spend most of my time on?
   1. Was it a waste of time
   2. What could have been done better
3. What did I dislike doing the most?
4. What took longer than expected?
   1. Why
   2. How can I improve this in the future
5. What ‘fires’ popped up that were urgent this week
   1. What caused it
   2. What was the solution
   3. Could it be prevented and how
6. What was my favorite thing this week
   1. Why
   2. How can I work more of this into my life
7. What tool did I use the most this week in my planning system (calendar, paper to-do list, digital todo list, phone, timer, etc)
8. What tasks this week moved me closer to my goals
9. What tasks this week were unrelated to my goals
10. What tasks did not get done this week
    1. are they really important to carry over to next week i.e. should these task be dropped
11. How did I take care of myself this week

I like to answer these in my head, and physically for the month (in a review for some). The add-on questions are important to future planning*, i.e. what took long than expected: a meeting with clients – what could be better – better prep for the client, better intro email, better meeting outline, maybe a question sheet.* These are meant to build better each week. Not everything is preventable or avoidable, somethings are just boring tasks.

That number 11 is important to. Don’t skip it.