The Weekly Standard

Keep one promise. Record the work. Adjust honestly.

10 minutes to plan · 1 minute a dayFree · Two-page fillable PDF

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Standard: put my phone in the kitchen and read with my child for ten minutes after dinner. Finished: we read together before bedtime on each planned day. Obstacle: late practice. Adapted plan: five quiet minutes with one page before bed. Review: record what actually happened; do not turn a missed evening into a story about your worth.

01Choose the responsibility

Choose one observable action. Someone should be able to tell when it is finished.

Week beginning

Review date

The promise I am keeping

Finished means

When and where it happens

Who this serves, and why

02Prepare for the hard day

Name the obstacle before it arrives. A smaller, agreed action is different from quietly changing the standard afterward.

The most likely obstacle

What I will prepare beforehand

My planned action on a difficult day

Help I will ask for

How I restart after a miss

03Record seven honest days

Kept = the full standard. Adapted = the difficult-day action agreed above. Missed = neither. Leave unplanned days blank.

Monday

What happened

One fact about the day

Tuesday

What happened

One fact about the day

Wednesday

What happened

One fact about the day

Thursday

What happened

One fact about the day

Friday

What happened

One fact about the day

Saturday

What happened

One fact about the day

Sunday

What happened

One fact about the day

0 kept0 adapted0 missed0 days recorded

04Review the evidence

Tell the truth, make any needed repair, and choose the next action. This is a record of behavior, not a measure of your value.

What helped me follow through?

What do I need to own or repair?

One change for next week

My next action and its deadline