My Monthly Review is similar to my Weekly Review in that it happens at regular intervals, follows a checklist format, and connects to both my actionable and reference systems. And then get creative at improving it over time.

My answer to this problem, as with so many things, is to make it into a process. Sitting down to think on such a grand scale takes our very best thinking, yet often the next actions that come out of it seem unrealistic. You realize you want to get a new personal trainer ( project), for which you need to call your college coach ( next action) to get his recommendation.īut this can be a difficult practice to do consistently: it feels necessary given the pace of change in our lives, but doesn’t seem to happen often enough to really become a skill. To do all this you need to maintain a rigorous training program ( area of focus). The 6 Horizons of Focus, with examplesĪ key driver for your life may be to assist others in achieving their dreams ( purpose), which you will express by becoming a world-class athlete and spokesperson ( vision), for which you will achieve a starting line-up position on a national team ( goal). It is an absolutely critical practice for aligning the smallest actions all the way through projects, goals, mission, and life purpose.

The Monthly Review is a timeout from the continuous stream of weeks flashing by an oasis of calm to evaluate your priorities, values, and progress on a longer-term horizon.

Accumulating change: how it influences personal growth.

My learnings: what I’ve learned from doing it.

Focus as structural integrity: how it produces focus.

In this article, I’d like to do the same for my Monthly Review (MR).īecause the MR touches on deeper patterns in how I work and live, this article is going to be longer than the previous one. In The Weekly Review is an Operating System, I detailed the process I go through each week to capture any new open loops, clear my workspaces, and nail down the events and commitments for the week.

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