Reset your practice 🪴
Day 2 - weekly review
Hello, I hope you are having a good week so far.
This is a short email course to help you reset your practice after the summer - 4 emails, Tuesday to Friday this week.
This course gives an outline of the ways I’ve used a practice journal to plan and evaluate my practice over many years.
As a homeopath we usually work alone. No boss and no co-workers to chat to on a daily basis.
A journal is a helpful place to sort out your ideas around your practice.
It helps you to make your goals concrete. The simple act of writing them down makes them so.
A journal also helps you think more deeply, and discover where you want to make changes. The first place to set a new boundary is when you write it down for yourself.
A journal might not get used that often unless you have some sort of structure around using it.
The weekly review 🪴
Yesterday we looked at monthly planning, a simple ritual that encourages decision-making and accountability.
Today we’ll look at the weekly review.
The goal: create a weekly review habit
The strategy: reflect, adjust and plan
Ask yourself what went well this week? Why?
What didn’t go well this week? Why?
Review your monthly schedule and plan ahead
A weekly review is a meeting with yourself that you make time for on a Thursday or Friday.
It’s a time to think back through your client work, my emails, my calls and any other work I’ve done in my practice.
If you’d like to see what my journals look like, you can check them out on Instagram. (No account needed)
How to do a weekly review
How to do a weekly review.
start a new page with the date at the top
on the left side, write ‘what went well’
on the right side, write ‘what I’ve learned’
go through your journal, your calendar and emails etc. and think through your appointments, calls and other work you’ve done
make a list of things that went well
make a list of what you’ve learned
maybe note down what you would do differently in future
Next you can plan for the week ahead.
look ahead at your calendar for the following two weeks
write out your schedule for the week ahead, plus to-do items if you like
decide when you will work on your monthly goals
limit yourself to a small number of things that feel achievable in the time you have available
Small steps
When I first started this exercise I was astonished at how much I get done in a typical week!
I would then realise that most of it was not on my monthly plan. 🙄
Completing this task weekly for many years has helped me to:
a) make small steps that help me progress towards my goals
b) to discover areas of my practice where I need to change what I am doing
Small shifts can make a huge difference - not simply in being more productive, but also in being happier.
When you keep a journal for your practice and your life, you will slowly but surely see things shift and change in a positive way. ✨
I’ll be back with part 3 tomorrow.
I hope you are finding some of these ideas useful.
Tracy 👩🏼💻
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Love this series so far, Tracy!