Starting this year I’ve started a weekly and monthly review on to check if I’ve completed my tasks in order to help me achieve my goals.
Here is another helpful productivity post by Leo Babauta
It catergroises and focuses in areas that relates to my lifestyle goals at the moment
I talked about the Year-End Reflection as a way to look back on your year, realize your accomplishments, solidify your learning … but that can take a lot of work, because we forget a lot of what we’ve done.
Enter the Monthly Review.
I just started doing this, actually, after realizing that my Year-End Reflection took a lot more work than it needs to. If I do a quick journal entry reflecting on every month, once a month, then it makes everything easier. Things are fresh in my mind. It doesn’t take that long.
So what I’ve done is just set a reminder for the beginning of every month to do my Monthly Review. Then I spend about 10 minutes that day looking over my past month:
Projects I’ve moved forward
Personal learning I’ve been working on
Health and fitness challenges I’ve been doing
Other big life events (some of them unexpected)
Things I’ve learned and want to remember
I look through my calendar and notes and to-do lists and stuff like that, and it doesn’t take long. I highly recommend it!
This review helps me feel like I’ve accomplished something in just a month, and it lets me take a big-picture look at my life, something I might not be doing often enough. I can correct my course, refocus myself, or simply feel good about what I’m doing. And I love how whatever I learned doesn’t feel as fleeting anymore, because these reviews help me lock it in a bit.
At the end of the year, I simply need to review these monthly reviews, and the Year-End Reflection should be a piece of cake.