Motivation and Momentum
Last week one of my Mastermind Group members in our long lunch meetup (every 2 months) suggested that we have an accountability call once a week, where we tell each other our progress of what weekly plan we shared the previous week, then declare the following week’s plan.
I immediately agreed. So he and I will start on 27th May 2022 (Friday) 8am, and every Friday 8am. We invited the other 3 members of the Mastermind Group to join the call, too.
Although I review my monthly plan with my own coach every month, I jumped on this idea from the Mastermind member because my “weekly reviews” that I do by myself have not been consistent, especially with a family emergency I had in April and then Raya (Eid) break in May. I know that my motivation and momentum are at peak when I am consistent with weekly reviews.
In 2019-2020 when a friend and I were building new daily habits for ourselves, we WhatsApp-messaged each other our day’s scores before we go to bed. Sometimes we miss a night, but this went on for about 4 months till we were okay to be on our own. 😊
With my wife, for more than 6 years now we go on regular off-site quarterly retreats that are both a break from home-life and also "review" time. She reviews her past quarter plan and she builds her next quarter plan. As a couple, we also use those retreats to review and plan what we call our Couple Plan of common things between the two of us. ❤️
When lockdown came, physical quarterly retreats had not been possible so we decided to do it every 6 months now. Post-lockdown, we feel once in 6 months is fine because we are at "steady-state" now.
Us doing our couple planning (annual and interim) for me was inspired by my late mentor, who with her husband every Friday night dinner had a ritual of their weekly (individual and couple) reviews. What a ritual!
An “extreme” ritual would be by one of top coaches in the world, Marshall Goldsmith who nightly reports his checklist of questions on a call to someone he hires just to listen! See: https://marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/how-to-get-better-at-almost-anything/
Image below: Some of my to-do's
