The Real Fear of Planning

Most people don't do a weekly review because they think it's only about checking boxes and updating project lists.

But that's not what matters.

What matters is the courage to look at where your attention went last week, and the discipline to decide where it should go next week. Not in service of some productivity guru's system, but in service of what you've decided is important.

The challenge isn't in the mechanics—it's in being honest enough with yourself to acknowledge that you can't do it all, and brave enough to choose what won't get done.

This is why we resist the weekly review. Not because it takes time (it does), but because it forces us to confront the gap between who we say we are and how we actually spend our time.

But that gap is precisely where the opportunity lives.