Weekly Review

Facilitate User's end-of-week reflection and planning session to maintain momentum and course-correct.

When to Use This Skill

Auto-invoke when User says any of:

•"weekly review"
•"week in review"
•"end of week review"
•"weekly retrospective"
•"review this week"

Review Structure

Part 1: Week Retrospective (Looking Back)

1. Achievements & Wins

•Read daily notes from reflections/daily/ for the week
•Identify completed tasks, shipped features, milestones reached
•Celebrate wins (even small ones)

2. Time Allocation Analysis

•How was time actually spent vs planned?
•Did Primary project get 40-50% of project time?
•Did art practice happen 3-4x as intended?
•Where did unexpected time go?

3. What Worked Well

•Systems/processes that helped
•Decisions that paid off
•Energy management wins
•Good days (what made them good?)

4. What Didn't Work

•Blockers that emerged
•Distractions or time sinks
•Energy drains
•Commitments that didn't serve goals

5. Learnings & Insights

•Technical learnings
•Process improvements discovered
•Personal insights about working style
•Patterns noticed

Part 2: Project Review (Current State)

Invoke Project Health Check skill to get:

•Status of all projects
•Blockers identified
•Velocity assessment
•Priority alignment check

Additional considerations:

•Should any project priority change?
•Should any project be paused?
•Are new opportunities worth pursuing?
•Is scope creep happening?

Part 3: Domain Check-Ins

Quick pulse check across key life domains:

Career (Strategist):

•Progress on career goals?
•Relationships built/maintained?
•Skills developed?

Wealth (Banker):

•Financial progress this week?
•Side project revenue movement?
•Investment actions taken?

Health (Spartan):

•Fitness consistency?
•Sleep quality?
•Energy levels?

Art (Artist):

•Practice sessions completed?
•Skill progress noticed?
•NMA curriculum advancement?

Operations (Atlas):

•System health?
•Balance maintained?
•Burnout risk?

Part 4: Next Week Planning (Looking Forward)

1. Project Priorities

•Confirm Primary/Secondary/Maintenance focus
•Adjust if needed based on health check
•Set specific milestones for the week

2. Calendar Planning

•Block deep work time for Primary project
•Schedule art practice sessions
•Identify high-meeting days (protect energy)
•Plan YourPet care around work schedule

3. Top 3 Priorities for Week

•What MUST ship/progress?
•What would make next week a win?
•What blockers must be cleared?

4. Commitments & Constraints

•Any special events or travel?
•Deadlines approaching?
•Energy reserves (coming off busy week)?

5. One Thing to Improve

•Based on "what didn't work" - pick ONE
•Specific experiment to try
•How to measure if it worked?

Output Format

Save to: reflections/weekly/YYYY-MM-DD.md

markdown

# Weekly Review - Week [N], [DATE RANGE]

## 📊 Week Overview

**Theme:** [One word/phrase capturing the week]
**Overall Rating:** [1-10]
**Energy Level:** [High/Medium/Low]

---

## 🎉 Wins & Achievements

### Projects
- ✅ [Specific achievement - project name]
- ✅ [Specific achievement - project name]

### Art Practice
- 🎨 [Sessions completed, skills practiced]

### Career/Growth
- 📈 [Professional wins]

### Personal
- 🌱 [Life/health/relationship wins]

---

## ⏱️ Time Allocation

**Planned vs Actual:**
- **Primary Project:** Planned X hrs → Actual Y hrs
- **Secondary Project:** Planned X hrs → Actual Y hrs
- **Art Practice:** Planned X hrs → Actual Y hrs
- **Work:** 40 hrs
- **YourPet:** ~7 hrs

**Assessment:** [On track / Overcommitted / Need adjustment]

---

## ✅ What Worked Well

1. [System/process that helped]
2. [Decision that paid off]
3. [Energy management win]

**Why it worked:** [Brief analysis]
**Continue:** [How to maintain this]

---

## ❌ What Didn't Work

1. [Blocker or distraction]
2. [Time sink or energy drain]
3. [Commitment that didn't serve]

**Why it didn't work:** [Brief analysis]
**Adjust:** [How to avoid/improve]

---

## 💡 Learnings & Insights

**Technical:**
- [New skills or knowledge gained]

**Process:**
- [Improvements discovered]

**Personal:**
- [Insights about working style, energy, etc.]

---

## 📊 Project Health

[Paste or reference Project Health Check output]

**Priority Changes:**
- [Any adjustments to project priorities]

**Projects to Pause:**
- [Any projects to put on hold]

**New Opportunities:**
- [Anything new worth considering]

---

## 🎯 Domain Check-Ins

### 💼 Career (Strategist)
**Progress:** [Status]
**Actions Taken:** [What was done]
**Next Week:** [Focus area]

### 💰 Wealth (Banker)
**Financial Progress:** [Status]
**Actions Taken:** [Investments, side project revenue]
**Next Week:** [Focus area]

### 🪖 Health (Spartan)
**Fitness:** [Workouts completed, consistency]
**Sleep:** [Quality, average hours]
**Energy:** [Overall assessment]
**Next Week:** [Focus area]

### 🎨 Art (Artist)
**Sessions:** [X of 3-4 target]
**Focus:** [What was practiced]
**Progress:** [Skills developing]
**Next Week:** [Practice focus]

### ⚡ Operations (Atlas)
**System Health:** [How are systems holding up]
**Balance:** [Life balance assessment]
**Burnout Risk:** [Low/Medium/High]
**Next Week:** [Adjustment needed]

---

## 📅 Next Week Planning

### Week [N+1] - [DATE RANGE]

**Primary Focus:** [Main project and milestone]
**Secondary Focus:** [Secondary project goal]
**Maintenance:** [What needs minimal attention]

**Top 3 Priorities:**
1. 🔴 [P0 - must ship/complete]
2. 🟠 [P1 - important progress]
3. 🟡 [P2 - meaningful but flexible]

**Calendar Notes:**
- [Deep work blocks scheduled]
- [High-meeting days to prepare for]
- [Art practice sessions blocked]
- [Special events or constraints]

**One Thing to Improve:**
- **Experiment:** [Specific thing to try differently]
- **Success metric:** [How to know if it worked]

---

## 🧠 Reflections

[Open-ended thoughts, patterns noticed, bigger-picture thinking]

---

*Generated by Weekly Review skill*
*Next review: [Date]*

Implementation Approach

•
Gather data:
- •Read daily notes from reflections/daily/ for past 7 days
- •Read projects/INDEX.md for current project state
- •Invoke Project Health Check skill for detailed analysis
- •Check for weekly calendar if available
•
Analyze patterns:
- •Look for completed tasks in daily notes
- •Identify blockers mentioned multiple times
- •Notice energy patterns (which days were productive?)
- •Spot time allocation trends
•
Synthesize:
- •Honest assessment (no forced positivity)
- •Specific examples (not generic)
- •Actionable insights (not just observations)
- •Connected to long-term goals
•
Plan forward:
- •Based on actual capacity (not ideal)
- •Adjust for lessons learned
- •One focused experiment (not five resolutions)

Context Files to Reference

•reflections/daily/*.md (past 7 days) - Daily notes and task completion
•projects/INDEX.md - Project status and priorities
•.system/context/preferences.md - Time allocation philosophy and goals
•Previous weekly reviews in reflections/weekly/ - Track progress over time

Integration with Other Skills

•Auto-invoke Project Health Check as part of review
•May lead to Cabinet Meeting if major decisions needed
•Informs Morning Brief for upcoming week

Tone

•Reflective but action-oriented
•Honest about what didn't work
•Celebrates wins without inflation
•Strategic and connected to long-term vision
•Pragmatic about capacity and constraints
•Growth-minded (everything is data)

Best Practices

Do:

•Use actual data from daily notes
•Be specific about achievements and failures
•Connect insights to long-term goals
•Recommend one focused improvement
•Acknowledge energy and capacity

Don't:

•Force positivity if week was hard
•Make vague observations
•Suggest five new habits to try
•Ignore patterns or recurring issues
•Recommend more than User can handle