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weekly review

concept · in 29 sources (2019–2024)

A short weekly session to look back and plan the coming week; his "most important weekly habit".

Sources by year: 2019: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2024: 12

Also known as: Sunday review

Also named in the threads: Ali promises a much more detailed video about Roam Research (2020) · Ali works with his CEO coach Eric Partaker (2022)

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Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

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What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

  • 2024-02-21 · Stop Wasting Time - 5 Time Management Skills to Master — recommendation: Ali's third way to improve prioritisation is a weekly review: spend 20 minutes every week reflecting on how the previous week went and setting priorities for the next. — 00:03:16
    • Ali runs free weekly review workshops every Sunday at about 4 p.m. UK time, where usually a few hundred people do a weekly review that he facilitates. — 00:03:45
  • 2024-05-15 · Struggling with Work-Life Balance? Watch This! 👀 — recommendation: Ali suggests the ideal week method for work-life balance: make a new Google Calendar with a template of an ideal week (waking, sleeping, work, commute) that leaves time for exercise, sleep, socialising and other important areas of life. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-28 · 5 Productive Things I Do Instead of Mindless Scrolling — recommendation: Ali's second productive use of spare time is a weekly reflection: spend 20 minutes reflecting on how your last week went and making a little plan for the following week. — 00:03:07
  • 2024-06-07 · My honest advice to someone who feels behind in life — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week exercise unreasonably effective: repeat the ideal day exercise for every day from Monday to Sunday. — 00:07:19
  • 2024-06-25 · How I Manage My Time Without Burning Out — Ali now keeps Mondays and Fridays free of work obligations and meetings; one day a week is his intense filming day, one is for meetings, and the rest is for working at a natural pace, on ideas and his next book. — 00:15:36
  • 2024-07-23 · 3 Easy Habits that Improved My Health — Ali: While researching this video, Ali added a daily walk to his ideal week; he calls the ideal week method one of the time-management techniques that has most impacted his life. — 00:05:11
  • 2024-11-22 · How I Built a New $1m Business in 12 Months — recommendation: Ali: One of the big productivity habits that helps people, Ali says, is a weekly review: review your week, then plan the next. — 00:23:50
  • 2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — recommendation: Ali advises blocking your non-negotiables, such as sleep, work, commute, chores and family dinners, into an ideal-week calendar to see where your time currently goes and where the spare time is. — 00:04:26
  • 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — recommendation: Ali's second habit is a weekly review, which he calls a weekly reset: just 10 to 20 minutes reviewing how the last week went and asking what your key priorities are for the week ahead. — 00:04:25
  • 2024-12-17 · How to Change Your Life with Deep Work (My System) — recommendation: Ali: Step one of Ali's deep work system is scheduling it: he keeps a separate Google Calendar for his ideal week, blocking out what his ideal ordinary week looks like. — 00:16:55
  • 2024-12-20 · How To Actually Achieve Your Goals in 2026 (Evidence-Based) — recommendation: Ali reviews his goals once a week: his weekly reset has a journaling prompt asking what his quarterly quests were and how they are going, and each week he also sets three main priorities. — 00:05:15
  • …and 9 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2023

  • 2023-04-24 · How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System — Ali: The second part of the Trident method is defining the ideal week, the ideal allocation of the 112 hours; Ali has used it for about eight months, since he started working with his CEO coach Eric Partaker. — 00:03:55
    • To plan an ideal week, Ali creates a new, separate calendar in Google Calendar as a fresh slate; it is free for everyone. — 00:04:24
    • The ideal week is made of containers of time for using it intentionally, Ali says, based on the constraints of your job and on your own energy levels. — 00:09:11
    • On the weekend before, Ali looks at his calendar for the coming week and creates blocks for what he wants to do, keeping his ideal week in mind. — 00:14:58
  • 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week, which he has applied for nine months, one of the most game-changing time-management techniques: block out your ideal week so the habits your goals require have time in the calendar. — 00:10:12
    • When planning his actual week, Ali looks at his ideal week calendar and asks how his actual time differs from how he would ideally spend it, and why. — 00:12:39
  • 2023-07-31 · 8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week — recommendation: Ali recommends the ideal week method: create a new Google Calendar called your ideal week and block out what an ideal ordinary week of your life looks like, from work and the gym to friends and family. — 00:02:26
    • Someone's ideal week shows their intentions and their actual calendar shows their reality; Ali says managing time effectively is bridging the gap between what we intend to do and what we actually do. — 00:02:55
    • In his weekly review Ali looks ahead to the next two weeks and revisits his goals to check they are still aligned with his priorities, which he calls the important step. — 00:16:38
  • 2023-08-04 · I Read 107 Productivity Books. Here's What Actually Works. — recommendation: Ali's favourite way to make time for weekly inputs is the ideal week technique: a new Google Calendar called your ideal week with events for waking, sleeping, lunch, work, friends, family and date night. — 00:04:02
    • Ali calls a weekly review super helpful: reflect on last week's (week of 24 July 2023) top wins, biggest challenges and learning points, and the top three things to get done next week (week of 7 August 2023). — 00:15:35
  • 2023-12-22 · How to Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week method one of his most game-changing time-management techniques: open a blank Google Calendar called your ideal week and first block the essentials, such as waking and sleeping times. — 00:13:13
  • …and 4 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2022

2021

  • 2021-02-26 · Brandon Sanderson on Writing, Storytelling and Fantasy Books — recommendation: Brandon Sanderson puts all his non-writing work (interviews, meetings, his class, YouTube videos) on Thursdays, with a limited number of hours his team knows they cannot exceed. — 01:25:29
  • 2021-03-04 · My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro — announcement: Ali also uses Roam Research for to-do lists, personal knowledge management, second-brain note-taking, the "lazy Zettelkasten" method and his weekly reviews, and says a video on all of these will come at some point. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-09-19 · How to Make Productivity Healthier — Ali feels he really needs a weekly review and does one rarely, but each time it gives him so much clarity; monthly reviews are useful too, and doing them is just discipline. — 00:11:28

2020

2019