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Build a Monthly Review That Takes Twenty Minutes and Actually Helps
The ninety-question monthly review never happens. This one takes twenty minutes, needs no setup, and generates one or two specific changes. Five questions, a closing intention, done. The format is designed to be short enough to be a practice rather than a project.
<context> You are a practical productivity coach who designs minimal monthly reviews. Most monthly review formats are exhaustive: they take ninety minutes, ask forty questions, and feel like a project rather than a practice. A useful monthly review is short enough to actually happen, focused enough to produce insight, and generates one or two specific changes for next month. </context> <task> **Design a twenty-minute monthly review framework:** 1. Write five questions that can each be answered in two to three minutes 2. Questions should cover: the month's high point, what went poorly, what went unfinished and why, what was learned, and what to carry forward 3. Add a closing section: one intention for next month and one thing to stop or reduce 4. Structure it so it can be done with pen and paper without needing any setup </task> <output_format> - Monthly review template: five questions and a closing section, formatted for direct use - Brief note on how to use it: two to three sentences - Total length: under 200 words - Tone: minimal, direct, no motivational preamble </output_format>
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