The Sunday-night weight
Tomorrow is Monday, and there’s something on your chest that has no name. It isn’t one thing: it’s twenty loose things nobody ever sorted out.
Sound familiar?
The week that got away
Friday comes and you couldn’t say where the days went. You were busy the whole time. You got very little done.
The big thing that always waits
There’s something important you’ve been putting off for months. Every Monday you promise yourself. Every Monday, the urgent stuff wins.
The tasks that never die
The call, the paperwork, the hard conversation. They’ve been in your head for weeks, and they cost you a little peace every day.
The same mistake, again
You promise yourself you’ll go to bed early, work out, not answer in anger. You slip on the same day of the week, for the same reason. You never stopped to look at it.
The list that doesn’t help
You’ve tried planners, apps and color-coded lists. They last three weeks. None of them makes you look back.
Your weeks don’t get away from you because of bad luck. They get away because none of them is ever really closed. What isn’t reviewed repeats itself.
Why the Stoics
The Stoics didn’t have more time than you. They had a habit.
Seneca, senator, writer and one of the busiest men in Rome, went over his whole day every night. His wife knew the habit and fell silent at that hour. “I hide nothing from myself; I pass over nothing,” he wrote (On Anger, III, 36). And he didn’t condemn himself: he spoke to himself like a good judge who wants the other man to do better.
Epictetus asked his students not to fall asleep until they had gone over every act of the day with three questions: Where did I fall short? What did I do? What duty did I neglect? (Discourses, III, 10).
Marcus Aurelius, an emperor in the middle of a war, wrote his Meditations as an examination of himself, and left a rule for putting life in order: one action at a time.
Most methods only look forward. That’s why they fail. Planning without reviewing is repeating the same mistakes in neater handwriting.
“This is what makes us worse: no one looks back over his own life. […] And yet counsel for the future comes from the past.”
Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 83, 2
What The Sunday Review Is
A fixed hour every Sunday, which is really forty-five minutes of work. Five stages, always in the same order.
- I · The Retreat · 5 minutes. Same place, same time, phone out of reach. You read the rule for the week that’s ending.
- II · The Judgment · 15 minutes. You grade your three goals (done, half done or not done), answer the examination questions and score yourself on wisdom, justice, courage and temperance.
- III · Clearing the Table · 10 minutes. You empty your head, separate what’s up to you and look at the week ahead.
- IV · The Plan · 10 minutes. The week’s keystone and two more goals, each with its day and time. The obstacle planned for. One thing you won’t do.
- V · The Seal · 5 minutes. A score from 0 to 100, a lesson, a rule for the week, your streak and your signature.
Every Sunday you know how the week went in numbers, not in feelings. Every thirteen weeks, a quarterly review. At the end of the year, the chart of your whole year.
It isn’t a productivity course or one more planner. It’s a two-thousand-year-old habit, with its tools.
Everything you get
The Sunday Review isn’t a lone PDF: it’s a 7-piece kit, ready to download.
- I
The yearly tracker
Excel and Google Sheets
The star of the kit: 52 weeks that date themselves, a score and a reading for every week, your streak of Sundays kept, the checklist, the quarters, your weakest virtue, your year at a glance in 52 color-coded boxes and the chart of your year.
- II
The Sunday Review workbook
The complete method, a completed sample Sunday, your Sunday Zero, and the quarterly and yearly review.
- III
The 52-week template
A sheet for every Sunday, a chart to fill in by hand, and the quarterly and yearly reviews.
- IV
Quick Start
2 pages
You start tonight, in five minutes.
- V
Checklist, cards and poster
The hour on one page, six pocket cards and the “The Week Is Won on Sunday” poster.
- VI
5 phone wallpapers
A line from the method every time you pick up your phone.
- VII
Commitment sheet and two certificates
One for thirteen Sundays in a row and one for fifty-two weeks.
Everything arrives as downloadable files, in order, for your phone, your computer or on paper.
How it works
Three steps. The first one, today.
I
Today: put it on the calendar
You choose the day and time of your review and add it as a weekly recurring event with an alarm.
II
Your Sunday zero
You read the method (fewer than twenty pages), sign your commitment and write down how you’re doing today, what you’re carrying and your first three goals.
III
The full hour
Retreat, judgment, order, plan and seal: forty-five minutes with the checklist. You log your points, and the streak begins.
Who it’s for, and who it isn’t
It’s for you if…
- The man who ends his weeks tired, with the feeling he didn’t move forward on what matters.
- The man with a goal he keeps putting off, who wants it to finally have a day and a time.
- The man who gets to Monday with no plan and lets the week decide for him.
- The man who’s willing to sit down for forty-five minutes every Sunday and look at what he did without lying to himself.
It’s not for you if…
- The man looking for an app to do the work for him: here, the work is yours.
- The man who wants to plan without looking back: this method starts with the judgment.
- The man who expects results without consistency: one review changes nothing; fifty-two do.
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You can keep letting the weeks go by on their own, or you can sit down for an hour every Sunday and decide what the next one will look like.
Five stages. Three goals. One score. One streak. The week is won on Sunday.
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