--- title: Weekly Reflections type: recorded-teaching-notes mode: PRE-RECORDED VIDEO LESSON format: SHORT RECORDED room: MI client training expressed-from: - "04. Resources/Bibles/MI-Program/Foundations/05_Daily-Highlights-Weekly-Reflections.md" - "02. Projects/Builds/Weekly-Reflections/teaching-design.md" --- # Weekly Reflections ## Locked title Weekly Reflections ## Skool description Complete one honest weekly reflection and leave with next week's top three focuses written somewhere visible. ## Recording plan **Format:** One short recorded video lasting five to twenty minutes. **One big idea:** A protected weekly reflection turns the week that actually happened into clearer focus for the week ahead. **One tool:** The blank Weekly Reflection template with the four canonical prompts. **One action:** Protect the next ten to twenty minute end of week window, complete all four prompts, and keep the next top three visible. **Taught order:** Surface the viewer's current approach, explain why the rhythm matters, define what it is, show the full relationship, teach the four parts, set the right conditions, handle missed follow through, use the blank template, protect the next reset window, then close with reflection and commitment. ## Full spoken recording script ### Open by surfacing the current approach Before I explain this, pause the video and say out loud how you currently close a week. Do not overthink it, just say the first thing that comes to mind. Then press play and we will take it from there. Keep that answer in mind as we work through a protected Weekly Reflection rhythm. ### Why Weekly Reflections matters Weekly reflection creates focus and clarity, and helps you improve more effectively. It gives you one place to look at what actually happened, understand what worked, notice what could improve, and surface the questions or challenges where support would help. Without that pause, it is easy to carry the same hidden pattern into another week. The aim is not to judge yourself. The aim is to learn from the real week, then decide what matters next. This is why the reflection sits between the week behind you and the week ahead. It helps you become more focused, clear, and effective. ### What Weekly Reflections is Weekly Reflections is a protected end of week rhythm that takes ten to twenty minutes. It is not another planning system. It is a simple pause where you review the real week, identify where support is needed, and choose your next top three focuses before the new week begins. There are four parts, and they work best in order. You review, check goal completion, identify challenges, and plan ahead. The full relationship is simple. You begin with the real week. An honest review shows what happened. That review surfaces the support you need. That clarity shapes your next top three. Keeping those three visible turns them into daily focus. ### Part one: Review Start by asking how the week went. Write down what went well and what could be improved, because both sides help you see what to continue and what to focus on next. Review your calendar while you do this so the reflection and your plans align with your overall goals. ### Part two: Check goal completion Next, look at the top three goals you set for the week. Did you complete your top three goals? Write yes or no, then explain why or why not. The explanation matters because it helps you notice the difference between uninterrupted work, procrastination, urgent tasks, unexpected events, and recurring distractions. The point is to understand the follow through, not only record the result. ### Part three: Identify challenges Now ask what questions or challenges need support. Ask for help and feedback where you need it. Name the support you need instead of leaving the question unanswered. ### Part four: Plan ahead Finish by choosing your top three focuses for the upcoming week. Choose only three focuses for the upcoming week. These are the three things you want to see and remember during the week ahead. Once you have chosen them, write them somewhere visible. The weekly choice becomes useful when you are reminded of it every day. Pause here and try this step with your own calendar and current week's top three. Pause and explain this idea out loud in your own words, as if a friend just asked you how it works. ### Give the reflection the right conditions Do the reflection in a quiet, distraction free environment. Review your calendar so your reflection and plans align with your overall goals. Ask for help and feedback where support would be useful. Keep the next top three focuses somewhere visible, so they stay in front of you every day. These conditions keep the reflection connected to your real week and your real priorities. ### When follow through slips Marc treats eighty to eighty five percent completion as success. Life happens, and a missed focus becomes useful when you reflect instead of hiding from it. First, process the feelings without panic, guilt, or an expectation of perfect completion. Be patient and kind with yourself. If you feel bad, let yourself feel it. Pause, close your eyes, breathe, and let the feeling settle. Do not skip the reflection. Sit with what happened and learn from it. Second, get curious about why you did not follow through once you feel better. If something urgent and unexpected happened, that can simply be life. If the same distraction keeps happening, that is a pattern. Repeated scrolling, repeated last minute tasks, or repeated attention on things that do not matter point to the real problem that needs your focus. Third, fix the real problem as soon as possible. Talk to someone, get help, research a solution, and try it. If you do not address the repeating pattern, it will keep holding you back. Staying curious helps you focus on the real issue and improve through the process. ### Use the blank Weekly Reflection template The blank template contains the four prompts you have just worked through. First, how did my week go? What went well, and what could be improved? Second, did I complete my top three goals, and why or why not? Third, what questions or challenges need support? Fourth, what are my top three focuses for the upcoming week? The template stays blank because the useful answers must come from your real week. Review your calendar, then write an honest answer under every prompt. ### Protect the next reset window Your first action is to protect the next ten to twenty minute end of week window. When that window arrives, review the calendar, answer all four prompts, name where support is needed, and write the next top three somewhere visible. You are done when one honest weekly reflection is complete, every prompt has an answer, your support needs are named, and the next top three focuses are visible. ### Reflect and commit Before you move on, say out loud the one thing that surprised you in this video, and the first place you will use it. Finish this commitment in your own words. If I finish this video without my reflection window protected, then I will schedule it and write the time somewhere visible by the same time tomorrow. One month from now, how will you know this video worked? Say it in one sentence before you move on. Before you close this video, drop one line in the community: what will you use tomorrow? Not what you liked, what you will actually use. You got this. ## Follow up post seed Drop one line below and tell me one thing you have tried from this lesson. Even a small step counts. **Internal posting cue:** Post this seed the day after the video, resurface it one week later, and resurface it again one month later.