Coaching practices for Monday Vision Friday Reflection

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Monday Vision Friday Reflection, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My weeks get hijacked by whatever lands in my inbox first thing Monday, and by Friday I’ve just been reacting the whole time
• Every week I hit the same walls and learn nothing
• I keep meaning to step back and take stock, but reflection always loses to whatever’s urgent
• I reflect on my day and feel all these feelings about it, and then tomorrow plays out exactly the same
• I walk into Monday blind and then keep getting blindsided mid-week

Practices that may help

1. Set a Monday Vision each week
   Every Monday, name three outcomes for the week before the week’s reactive demands crowd them out.
   Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
2. Run a Friday Reflection
   Each Friday, review what you accomplished, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
   Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
3. Build a weekly reflection ritual so the cycle runs regularly
   Schedule a fixed reflection window so the four stages happen as a routine, not an afterthought.
   Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
4. Close with a resolve for tomorrow
   End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
5. Run a weekly preview before the week begins
   On Sunday evening, scan the incoming week against your ideal week template and protect what matters.
   Ideal Week Design
6. Close with a forward-looking resolve
   Choose one concrete intention to carry into tomorrow before closing the review.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
7. End every review with a single resolved next action
   The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
8. Weekly planning
   Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
9. Identify and schedule big rocks at the start of each week
   On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
   Big Rocks First
10. Keep it brief and daily
    Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day

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