Coaching practices for Start Stop Keep Review
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- We keep piling new initiatives on top of old ones we’ve outgrown but never stopped, so the team is overloaded and there’s no room to start anything fresh
- Even after I’ve gone through all my lists there’s still this faint background hum that I’m forgetting something
- I only ever stop to reflect when something blows up
- I know the weekly review is the thing that keeps me sane, but on any given week it always feels optional and something more urgent eats the time
- I had a system I trusted, but I let the lists go stale and now I don’t quite believe them anymore
Practices that may help
- Use Start-Stop-Keep reviews to drive continuous improvement
Regularly ask what the team should start, stop, and keep doing — and act on the answers.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Do a mind sweep to surface anything the system hasn’t captured
Before ending the review, spend 5 minutes writing down anything still bothering or nagging in your mind.
The GTD Weekly Review - Build a regular AAR cadence, not just crisis-triggered reviews
Reviews triggered only by problems create a negative-events database; a regular cadence captures ordinary learning that compounds.
After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning - Schedule the weekly review as a non-negotiable recurring appointment
Put the weekly review on the calendar as a fixed, protected block — and treat it as an external meeting.
The GTD Weekly Review - Run a weekly review
Once a week, process inboxes and review every project and list to keep the system trusted.
Getting Things Done (GTD), Made Practical - The GTD Weekly Review
The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research. - Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Calibrate review depth to your current context
Match the depth of the weekly review to what the week actually calls for — short when the system is current, deeper when life has been chaotic.
The GTD Weekly Review - Review the someday list weekly — even briefly
An unreviewed someday list is a guilt pile; a reviewed one is a planning resource.
The Someday List - Hold a weekly accountability review
Spend a short, fixed weekly session reviewing scores and planning the next week.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Backlog Review Productivity
Review last week's time log and set next week's priorities while context is fresh.
Do a weekly review every Friday afternoon
- David Allen Weekly Review
The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.
- Periodic Review Ideas
Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
- The Gtd Weekly Review After A Setback
The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.
- The Gtd Weekly Review During A Big Change
The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.
- The Gtd Weekly Review On A Budget
The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.
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