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What is the purpose of the weekly reflection?
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Version 2023 Q3 - current
Goals
- MilestonesĀ for the next round
- MetricsĀ for the next round
- High level quarterly goals
- Gates we have to pass through
- Quarterly Goals (Status: XXXX-XX-XX) - deadline: XXXX-XX-XX
- Cycle (=6 weeks) Goals (Status: XXXX-XX-XX) - deadline: XXXX-XX-XX
Weekly Reflection
- Last week 1-3 top goals?
- Are you launched? Are you making recurring revenue?
- When are the next big milestones (e.g. feature launch)?
- Users/prospective users talked to last week?
- What have you learned from them?
- Honestly, what is going on? Where weāre procrastinating, not acting, not deciding, being scared?
- Morale 1-10? (10 = max)
- What most improved your primary metric?
- Biggest obstacle?
- Fear based development
- Which calls should we have done already that we didnāt do?
- What assumptions do we have that might not be true?
- What things have to go right for us to win?
- Next weeks 1-3 top goals?
- Thing for the day on Monday? (most important task)
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Version 2022 Q3 - 2023 Q2
Recap
- What happened?
- Who did I meet? Best new work contact?
- Book read
- % of trainings completed?
- Highlights
- Lowlights
- Happiness 1-10
Startup Progress (source)
- Last week 1-3 top goals?
- Are you launched?
- Weeks to launch?
- Users/prospective users talked to last week?
- What have you learned from them?
- Honestly, what is going on? Where am I procrastinating, not acting, not deciding, being scared?
- Morale 1-10?
- What most improved your primary metric?
- Biggest obstacle?
- Next weeks 1-3 top goals?
Progress on Top Goals
- Goal 1
- Goal 2
- Goal 3
- Goal 4
- Goal 5
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Version 2021 Q4 - 2022 Q2
Recap
- What happened?
- Who did I meet?
- Highlights
- Lowlights
- Happiness 1-10
Progress on top goals
- Goal 1
- Goal 2
- Goal 3
- Goal 4
- Goal 5
General progress
- Best new work contact?
- Book read
- Book revisited
- Mental model examined & tested
- Work idea tested + result
- Run once
- % of trainings completed?
- Task list of last week (copy-paste)
Energy Audit
- Using calendar
- Go through each workday hour-by-hour and ask yourself āDid that activity give me energy or drain my energy?ā
- Look for patterns of where & how your energy is drained & eliminate.
- Goal: Spend 75-80% of your time doing things that energize you.
- Go through each task & categorize it into zones of
- Incompetence - other people better & don't love
- Competence - okay & don't love doing
- Excellence - great but don't love doing
- Genius - great & love doing"
Learnings
- What did I learn?
- Am I hunting antelope or field mice?
- Honestly, what is going on? Where am I procrastinating, not acting, not deciding, being scared?
- What's working?
- What's not working?
Goals for next week
- Things to consider while deciding on goals
- Regret minimization: What do I have to do to have not wasted the week?
- What's my main focus of the week?
- What do I want to accomplish?
- Who do I want to meet?
- What do I need to get off my back?