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All 108 frameworksWeekly Review GTD 5-15
You end most weeks with a vague sense of what happened and start most weeks reactive
The prompt
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Pro tip, from the book
The single most important output of the Weekly Review is the one block of protected time for Q2 work scheduled in advance. Without scheduling it before the week begins, reactive Q1 and Q3 work will fill every available hour. The calendar must reflect your priorities before the week starts, not after it ends.
Who should run this prompt
Module role profileWho should challenge how you are leading yourself? Self-leadership is the hardest kind because the subject and the observer are the same person. The roles on this page are designed to give you perspectives you cannot generate from inside your own thinking — the mentor who has already made your mistakes, the coach who sees your patterns more clearly than you do, and the critic who wants you to win. Use them when clarity matters most.
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Use this when
The problem it solvesresponding to what arrives rather than acting on what matters. Your productivity is high but your progress on the things that matter most is slow.
How the framework works
From the printed pageDavid Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system includes a Weekly Review as its highest- leverage practice. The 5-15 Report, popularised in the management literature - is a compact weekly review format: 5 minutes reviewing what you accomplished, 10 minutes planning what matters next week. Combined with GTD's capture-and-process discipline, the weekly review is the habit that keeps your system honest and your priorities clear. AI can run the review with you when given the right inputs, turning 15 minutes of structured reflection into a clean weekly action list.
The method, in four moves
Do these in orderSchedule the weekly review at the same time every week - Friday afternoon or Sunday morning work well for most founders.
Do not start next week's planning until you have finished this week's review - close the loop before opening the next one.
The review is not a to-do list audit - it is a priorities audit. Ask whether what you worked on this week actually mattered.
Keep the review under 20 minutes. If it takes longer, the system needs simplification, not more time. End every week with clarity. Start every week with intention. Checking off a full to-do list feels productive but says nothing about whether the right things got done. The review only works if it asks "did this matter," not "did I finish it."
Where the framework comes from
David Allen, Getting Things Done, 2001
Pairs well with
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