Day 7: Review, and Plan

Take a few minutes to review your third week. Write about your accomplishments and what you need to work on. Did you:

• Brainstorm some exciting new ideas, new paths and approaches for this week's priorities?

• Write about the strongest, most compelling reasons you want to do them, and list possible challenges?

• Practice setting daily intentions using the action + deepest reason model?

• Identify essential intentions for some of your core values and principles, that captures the possibility of daily right action and will be useful in any situation that arises in daily life?

• Map out one of your top priorities to discern all the connections to your values and principles, and (possibly) write an intention or a series of intentions for that priority that speaks to your core values, and reminds you of your deepest, most essential, most passionate reasons for living?

• Set intentions for one or two tasks, activities, or ideas listed on your Priority Grid for your coming week, honing in on the deepest, most essential, most passionate reasons for doing these tasks?

Summary

Values and principles by themselves lack commitment. You might value honesty, but never commit to leading an honest life. 

Intentions are a pledge for action, in the moment. They are what you consciously choose to do. When you are intentional with your actions, you choose your path on purpose.

Setting intentions every week and every day leads to awareness: You will see more clearly the steps you need to take in your life, and why.

Going forward, you will:

• Set intentions for your core values - once a year, whenever it is that you review your core values (I do it in January);

• Set intentions for your top priorities - monthly, at the start of each month or at the first quarter moon;

• Set intentions for the week - weekly, at the start of each week.

Next Week Schedule, Step 3: 

Saturday- Fill in the details: Schedule a daily time for all of your daily priorities, like exercising; choose days and times for the one-day tasks like sending that birthday card;and schedule in the chunks of those big task-driven projects. 

 

Week 4 Needs:

· Your journal notebook.

· Your Priorities Grid

· Heavy paper, scissors, glue (for the mini-vision board)