A weekly review keeps track: A daily plan keeps one day on track. A weekly review keeps your whole life on track. Once a week — Friday, or Sunday evening, whichever suits your home — sit for 20 minutes with a cup of tea and ask four questions.
Four questions to ask: The four questions are:
- What went well this week? Name three things, even small ones. Thank Allah for them.
- What did I miss, and why? No blame. Was the plan too big? Was there an emergency? Did the phone win?
- What is the one thing next week must include? One lesson, one family outing, one call you owe your mother.
- What will I stop doing? One time leak to close — one group, one show, one habit.
Write it, then plan forward: Write the answers in a few lines. Then make next week's plan in five minutes. That is the whole review. Twenty minutes a week saves hours of drifting.
Example
Imran's Friday review: On Friday evening, Imran reviews his week. Three good things: he prayed Fajr on time five days, he finished two lessons for his students, and he took his daughter to the park on Sunday.
The plan was wrong, not him: What he missed: his Arabic lesson, three days in a row, because he planned it at 3pm, when his online work starts. No blame — the plan was wrong, not him. Next week he moves Arabic to 6am. And he decides to stop watching videos after dinner, because that hour was his biggest leak.
Key Terms
- Weekly review (ہفتہ وار جائزہ) — 20 minutes once a week to look back and plan forward
- What went well (کیا اچھا رہا) — three good things, named and thanked for
- One thing (ایک چیز) — the single most important thing next week must include
Fresh diagram to be drawn: None needed. A simple four-question checklist card is enough.
- Once a week, sit for 20 minutes and ask four questions: what went well, what did I miss, what must next week include, what will I stop?
- No blame in a review. If the plan failed, fix the plan, not yourself.
- Twenty minutes a week saves hours of drifting.