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How to Do Bullet Journal Weekly Planning and Reviews
How to do daily, weekly, and monthly reviews, Bullet Journal-style: a step-by-step guide to reflection and planning to keep yourself on track with your goals.
Know thyself. — Socrates
One of my favorite sculptures is called The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. It’s the one with the naked guy sitting on a block, resting his head on his hand, you know, thinking. Like a lot of Rodin’s work, it feels unfinished. Some surfaces appear rough; others lack detail. The visibility of these millions of minute choices imparts immediacy and humanity to his work — it’s as though we can see the artist himself thinking.
Like a block of marble, our lives are finite. They start out rough and formless. Each choice we make places a chisel to the stone. Each action irreversibly chips away time. No action is so insignificant that it can’t benefit from our attention. It’s the lack of attention that’s often responsible for the rubble of cringeworthy decisions weighing on our conscience.
To be sure, making bad decisions, no matter how smart or wise you are, is an unavoidable part of being human. Life is also an unruly medium. It slips, it shatters, it shifts, it crushes. Sometimes we even…