Day 7: Review, and Plan

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

• Set intentions for the week: List the strongest, most compelling reasons you want to do your next week's priorities, and list challenges?

• Create an intention ritual or habit that will remind you, every day, of what your intentions are?

• Practice remembering your intentions throughout the day, every day?

• Make a plan for how you will lean in and spark full and energetic effort day-by-day, for your priorities, and practice this plan?

• Set yourself some targets for acting on your priorities "regularly"?

• Practice being flexible but discerning during the day and touching in with your Inner Guide?

• Begin to recognize your successes at the end of each day and acknowledge that you had a day that was meaningful and satisfying?

• Evaluate and record how well-satisfied you are with your "ducks in a row"?

• Identify "low-status" priorities and values, and create a beautiful reminder of why you want each of these in your life that will help you to give them the equal status that they deserve?

Next week schedule in 3-steps: 

1. Thursday - Adjust your Priority Grid for the month: Check off what you have completed, add new items you have thought of, and move anything down lower that no longer fits.

2. Friday - Block in your schedule for the next week: Add events and blocks of time for your priority categories (such as an hour for committee work on Tuesday and Thursday).

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. 

Summary

Full effort is a mental discipline that requires attention (remembering your priorities and why you want to do them), a spark of energy (connecting to and sustaining your excitement, and leaning in with eagerness), and balance (giving regular attention to each of your priorities each week and holding your intentions lightly in the complexity of life).

Going forward, you will:

• Practice your intention ritual or habit - every morning;

• Practice remembering your intentions and leaning in with eagerness - throughout the day, every day;

• Practice being flexible but discerning and touching in with your Inner Guide - - throughout the day, every day.

• Recognize your successes and acknowledge that you had a day that was meaningful and satisfying - at the end of each day.

• Set intentions for the week - every week, on the first day of the week

• Evaluate and record how well-satisfied you are with your "ducks in a row" - every week, near the end of the week.

• Evaluate your satisfaction level and the balance of your priorities, and discern adjustments - monthly, at the end of each month.
  

See this Recap of 4 Weeks and Sample Calendar

You have an option now to move forward with Section Two - Centering your Life in Love - or take another month to practice the first set of habits. 

If you choose to move forward:

Week 5 Needs:

• Your journal notebook
• A new Love Journal
• A pink candle