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Can I be honest with you? A few years ago, I was living in constant reaction mode.

I'd start Monday with good intentions, get pulled in 47 directions by Tuesday, and by Friday I was just surviving. Then Sunday would roll around and I'd panic about the week ahead without having any idea what actually happened in the week behind me. 

You know that feeling? Where you worked 60 hours, answered 2000 emails, attended 25 meetings, and somehow still felt behind on everything that actually mattered?

That was me. Every. Single. Week.

I was always scrambling, always behind, always feeling like I was failing at something.

Then I started doing a weekly review every Sunday, and everything changed.

Here's what nobody tells you about running a business: your brain can only hold about 7 things at once before it starts dropping balls.

When you're constantly reacting to whatever's loudest - the urgent email, the deadline that just appeared, the client who needs something NOW - you're not actually running your business. You're being run by it.

The weekly review is how you take back control.

Every Sunday from 8-10 PM, I sit down with my laptop and do the same process. It takes about 2 hours and it saves me probably 10 hours of chaos during the week.

Here's exactly what I do:

Part 1: The Look Back (30 minutes)

I review last week and ask myself three questions:

I'm not journaling here. I'm looking at my calendar, my task list, my completed projects, and getting honest about what happened.

This is where I catch the things I dropped. The email I forgot to send. The deadline I almost missed. The project that took way longer than expected.

Part 2: The Brain Dump (15 minutes)

I use Wipsr Flow to ramble and dump everything floating around in my head into Claude:

This isn't organized. It's just getting it all out of my brain and onto paper so I can actually think clearly.

Sometimes this is even pen and paper depending how scattered I am that week & then Claude organizes it into something coherent

Part 3: The Calendar Review (20 minutes)

I look at the week ahead and identify:

This is when I catch conflicts before they become emergencies. "Oh wait, I have three client calls scheduled for the same hour" becomes an easy fix on Sunday instead of a disaster on Tuesday.

Part 4: The Priority Setting (30 minutes)

From my brain dump and calendar review, I identify my top 3 priorities for the week.

Not my top 10. Not everything I want to get done. Just three things that, if they're the only things I accomplish, would make the week a success.

Everything else gets sorted into:

Part 5: The Daily Planning (25 minutes)

For each day of the upcoming week, I assign specific tasks to specific time blocks.

Monday: Client work in the morning, admin in the afternoon 

Tuesday: Calls in the morning, content creation in the afternoon 

Wednesday: Deep work all day And so on.

I'm not scheduling every minute. I'm just making sure my priorities actually have time allocated to them.

Before weekly reviews, I felt like I was constantly behind and never knew why.

After weekly reviews, I know exactly what's happening, when it's happening, and what needs my attention.

The chaos didn't disappear - running a business is inherently chaotic. But now I'm prepared for the chaos instead of surprised by it.

Here's what I didn't expect: the weekly review changed how I think about time.

Before, time felt like something that happened to me. Weeks flew by and I couldn't tell you where they went.

Now, I'm intentional about my time. I decide what matters and make sure those things actually happen.

It sounds simple, but it's revolutionary.

Two hours every Sunday feels like a lot when you're already overwhelmed.

But those two hours save you from:

The math works out. Invest 2 hours on Sunday, save 10+ hours of stress and scrambling during the week.

Customize it: Want to completely block off your weekends? Do this at the end of your Fridays.

You don't need a fancy system. You just need 2 hours and a willingness to actually look at what's happening in your business.

Block 2 hours on Sunday on your calendar right now. Put it in your phone. Set a reminder.

Then show up and do the five parts:

That's it. That's the whole system.

When's the last time you actually planned your week instead of just letting it happen to you? Be honest 😅

💜 Tara

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