Monday Ducks in a Row: 30-Minutes to Prepare for the Week
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Start your day focused, clear, and ready for action. In just 30 minutes, we’ll organize our priorities and prepare for a week of purposeful work.
### What to Bring
- Your calendar
- Your action tracker, aka to-do list, task list or personal planner
- Your project plan(s) for one or more projects you choose to work on. You can also create one during the session. It can be a simple to-do list specific to one project, or a full Gantt or other type of chart
- Your daily notetaking journal(s) — e.g. communication log, ideas tracker, daily journal, etc. where you record your thoughts, ideas, meeting notes, interactions and other communications.
- A habit tracker or systems tracker — i.e. a document to plan, track and assess personal habits, including stacked habits and routines.
- Your job or role descriptions — Any relevant documents from your work, volunteer roles, religious or spiritual groups, or other roles in your life that describe your title, responsibilities, expectations, scope of work, or other material that defines the boundaries of what you do.
Optional
- Your temple of light — e.g. a vision board or inspirational collection of images, quotes, affirmations, intentions, or aspirational people.
### Agenda
5:25 AM Meeting Opens
5:30 – Meeting Begins
Fluff the Nest
Join the meeting, hydrate, tidy your physical and digital workspace, and gather your tools. Feel free to chat with fellow attendees.
Gather Your Flock
🔹 Reflect: Review your latest notes and reminders. Freewrite to brain dump anything on your mind — e.g. inspiration, ideas, insights, questions, concerns and challenges. Store your notes to easily find and act on them.
🔹 Assess: Review your calendar, goals, roles, responsibilities, habits and systems.
🔹 Update: Adjust your calendar, action tracker, habit tracker and project plan(s) for at least the next week or two.
🔹 Focus: Identify key priorities and determine what to eliminate, delegate, or defer.
Take the Lead
We will close the main session with a big breath, a reminder of what motivates, inspires or centers us and visualize a successful week,
6:00 AM – Close
Begin the week with a clear roadmap of how to proceed.