Hi!
What does "friday night accountability call" mean? What kind of accountability do you mean? I'm working on being more productive in my everyday and curious if this might help 💖
Okay, so.
Twice a week, on Monday morning and Friday evening, @zjofierose and I have like, a half-an-hour to an hour-long chat over zoom.
On Monday mornings, we plan our weeks together - we have a table that we fill out with like, all the stuff we want to get done that week, divided into categories of tasks, and we tell each other what we're working on and what we want to work on and then on Friday nights, we check in with each other and see how the week went!
Our current categories are work stuff, house stuff, stuff for the indie press we run with some other friends, administrative stuff and then we have a catch-all category for like, other stuff. It helps me organize myself and I put these things into my planner to-do list, and then I do them, because I don't want to get to Friday and have nothing to cross off the list.
We've been doing this for like ... two? three years?
We also spend time together at the beginning of each month, each quarter and at the beginning and end of the year, to set our goals for the year together and talk about things that worked and didn't work.
This grew out of like, a desire for both of us to get better at doing the things we want to do and discovering that it helps to have someone who you talk to about it.
It has had the added benefit of becoming like, a touchstone of my week. I feel weird when I don't talk to Zjo at least twice a week, I get excited when I get to tell her I did something that's been hanging on the list for a while, and I think she feels the same! It's been really good for like, intentionally staying in touch as well, since she lives on the other side of the continent from me!
We also use our call time to talk through like, life stuff, and I feel like I've gotten a LOT out of these regular conversations, much more than just the productivity gain.
If Zjo has other thoughts, I hope she'll share too!
