Why We Resist the Weekly Review and Plan (and What You Can Do About It)

One of the challenges most people who use David Allen’s Getting Things Done or even general goal review is resistence. Like anything else we find beneficial long term, it can be a challenge to make time for our reviews. Ricky Spears over at Ricky’s RAM Dump has put together probably the most thorough list of mental obstacles we can experience. He lists just about every excuse in the book and what you can do to bust each and every one.

Here are some of the resistences he lists (there are plenty more...):

It’s not on our calendar.
We don’t know how or we fear we may not do it right.
We don’t have a step-by-step plan for it.
We aren’t ready-and getting ready is too overwhelming.
We feel that the weekly review is a “have to” instead of a “want to”.
We haven’t defined our outcome vision.
We have’t defined our purpose and principles.
We think it has to be perfect and complete.
We don’t see the benefit of it.