On planning your weeks

Do you plan your weeks?

I know most of us here use MakerLog to track our project tasks daily but I wanted to know if, for other aspects of your life, like life goals or habits do you plan ahead and keep track somehow?

I've been planing my weeks since August 2017 and it has really helped me to focus on my goals and get things done. At the end of the week, I sit down for 15 minutes to review my progress and plan the following week. I started using a whiteboard and just taking pictures of it at the end of each week to keep a log of the progress.

Last year, I decided I wanted to build and launch a product, so I added it to the whiteboard. Planning the weeks and putting them on a whiteboard seemed like the perfect idea for the product itself so I started working on it. I finished the MVP in March and I've been using it since then. I've been polishing it and adding new features, like a habit tracker.

You can find all the details on the website.

If you plan your weeks, how do you do it? What things do you include? Do you spend some time doing a review at the end?

I absolutely plan my weeks! Every Monday morning for me consists of writing down this week's priorities in a bullet notebook, meeting with @hector and @jcmusic13, and setting priorities straight + adding the actionables to Asana.

I thoroughly enjoy Mondays -- which both of these folks can attest to, as I joined today's meeting while dancing to merengue music.

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For me, it's Sunday night or Monday morning when I review and plan my next week in theLIFEBOARD. I've been improving the weekly ceremony by adding a weekly score and a log for what I've done right and things that didn't work or that I can do better. For the new week, I include a phrase that summarizes the priorities of the week; that allows me to focus my tasks on that, and don't waste time working on unnecessary/less important things.

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@uf4no This is pretty great advice. I also do the phrase thing, helps keep things in focus.

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I don’t. I keep a list of things to do and work on that until it’s clean. It’s difficult enough to work everyday with a child of 3 running, screaming and crying around you, that making any plan is futile. So I get as much work as I can while I can and that’s it. Pandemics 101.

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Tracy

Between my day job as a lead dev + working on a few side projects, it's absolutely important that I keep a weekly plan. I personally use notion and plan out each week in a board view.

At the end of each week, I run through anything that I haven't completed and move it to the following week, marking it as a higher priority since it's "overdue". I do this for both life (working out, chores, etc…) and dev work. For the last 6 months or so it's been an amazing way to keep a consistent structure to each day

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