Comments on: David Allen on linking projects and related pieces together

By: Sarah Tolland

Sarah Tolland — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:25:27 +0000

I could not agree more. Last month I wrote a blog post about the importance of the weekly review after nearly falling off the wagon and losing control:

“Today I did my weekly review and felt my workload come back under my control. The review is a strange beast – so easy to put to one side and think that it is not as important as all of the other tasks on that list! But it really and truly is the bedrock of the system that keeps all tasks in perspective. Without it (as I have recently experienced), a ‘mind like water’ is impossible and the weight of the workload starts to wear you down.
Having done my review today, I feel uplifted and more free than I have for a number of weeks.”

By: Muralidharan Jayaram

Muralidharan Jayaram — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:19:05 +0000

Whenever I stopped doing the weekly review for whatever reason for more than three weeks, I fell off the GTD band wagon.

The surest way you can fail in implementing GTD and go back to your old unproductive, stressed out self is to stop doing the weekly review.

By: Timo

Timo — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:41:44 +0000

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
– George Bernard Shaw

By: Stephen J. Lalla

Stephen J. Lalla — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:41:41 +0000

Took me many months before I figured out how to do it and incorporate it into my GTD system but it’s worth the effort and learning curve to truly get a handle and trust your system. Otherwise, you really don’t know what you don’t know.

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:56:24 +0000

I agree. The weekly review is truly the secret sauce, the holy grail, the rosetta stone to the entire methodology in my opinion. Make the effort to do it each week and you will be rewarded in spades.