Ali Abdaal uses emojis to track the state of his projects:
- green for on track
- yellow off track with a plan
- red off track without a plan
- blue for on ice
# Weekly Review
- [ ] **Remind:** What were our quarterly quests? How’re they going?
- [ ] **Remind:** What were last week’s 3 priorities? How did they go?
- [ ] **Reflect:** What were the good and great things that happened last week?
- [ ] **Reflect:** What were last week’s challenges? In what ways did we not act in line with our intentions for the week? And what would we like to change (if anything) next week?
- [ ] **Plan:** Look ahead to the next 2 weeks. Does anything need scheduling in the calendar, or any tasks need adding to our todo list?
- [ ] **Plan:** What are our top 3 outcomes for the upcoming week - if the week ahead was going to be a great week, what would be the top 3 things we’d accomplish? Let’s make sure those are in the calendar.
- [ ] **Plan:** ☑ Have we updated our Todo and Projects List?
- [ ] Quests & Projects are arranged in priority order.
- [ ] Every Project has a clear next action!
- [ ] Every Project has an up-to-date status: 🟢 (on-track) 🟡 (off-track with a plan) 🔴 (off-track without a plan) 🥶 (on ice)
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