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'Be Creative and Courageous' on Weekly Review Checklist
Daniel Klotz | Feb 26 2008
I’m disciplined about doing my weekly review. I knock through it every Monday morning and feel great after. For a couple years now, however, I have had two items on my Weekly Review Checklist that I rarely check off. They are taken verbatim from David Allen: “Empty my head” “Be creative and courageous” I don’t know if it’s a problem relating to the altitude of my mind during a weekly review (which I suppose is generally in the range of 10-30k feet), or if these checklist items are too vague to be useful (and not meant to be ripped from the David and put in this context). What do you think? Do I need to scratch these checklist items off my weekly review checklist, permanently? Or is there a way I can make them work? 1 Comment
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 You can make them workSubmitted by DomoDomo on February 26, 2008 - 8:21pm.
With respect to “Be creative and courageous”, I don’t think that is vague at all. It’s entirely possible that some of your current projects are already meeting this criteria, but you just haven’t made the link and realized that these projects could be considered sub-projects of “Be creative and courageous”. If that’s not the case, then mine your someday maybe list for a project that meets one of these two criteria, and make it active. If these two values are something you’re thinking consciously of enough that you’ve made them a project, I’m sure a few of your wishlist projects are imbued with these qualities. Then when you ask yourself weekly “Have I been creative and courageous”, you can view it within the specific context of this newly-activated project, and your progress with that. Not sure about whatcha mean by ‘empty my head’ though, as that could mean a few different things to me =\ Good luck. »
About unpeufou2 Bio Daniel Klotz is the executive assistant at The Lancaster (PA) Chamber of Commerce & Industry. In that role he is responsible for keeping himself, the president, vice president, and the board of directors organized and optimized for productivity. He frequently contributes expert advice to Administrative Professional Update. |
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