Why the Best Weekly Reviews Focus on Values, Not Tasks (TPS593)

You interested in becoming more productive at work and in life? Then check out the 25 x coaching program. Discover more at 25xcoaching.com. Welcome to the productivity show, a podcast where we believe that people like you can get the important things done without sacrificing your health, family and things that matter to you. If it's your first time listening, welcome to the show. I'm Tan, founder of Asian Efficiency where we help people become more productive at work and in life. And I do this podcast together with my co host Brooks Duncan all the way from Canada. How are you today, Brooks? I'm great. But I need to establish some ground rules for this episode we're gonna be talking about today because, spoiler alert for those listening, one of the exercises we're gonna be talking about today is the five whys exercise, which is super effective as we will talk about. However, I just wanna set the expectation that you're not gonna ambush me with a five wise exercise the way I did to Michael on that one episode years ago. We're not gonna have any of that or I'm hitting the hang up button. Man, I forgot about that until you told me about it. I'll link to that episode in the show notes. Notice I do the five whys and chat GPT, and we just go back and forth at a pace that I can actually manage versus on the spot. I'm I'm usually not a good thinker on the spot. Like, I I get questions asked all the time. I was like, hey, Ten, you have a big network. Who do you know that could do this? And I go, I have no idea. But if you give me a day to think about it, I'll get back to you. And then when I let my mind kinda wander and I'll sit down and really strategize, then I'll go, okay. Yeah. Here here's five people that I I know that you should meet or connect with. So a thought that requires deep thinking on the spot, usually not that good. Hence, why in a podcast, we still have show notes and outlines and ideas we wanna cover. But every now and then, you know, we go off script and that happens quite often. So having done a podcast for ten years now since 2015, right, so ten ten plus years, you you get better over time after a few reps. So if you ambush me with, say, five whys, I think I think I'll do a better job this time. But that is gonna be one of the key exercises we're gonna be covering. Today's topic was kind of inspired by an article I read by Scott Young where he talks about the weekly review. And he had kinda had, like, a different approach to it, and we're gonna link to his article here in the show notes. But in case you wanna read it …