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Answer five questions, once a week, at the same time. Use specifics instead of scores, and keep it brief enough that you'll still be doing it a month from now.\n\n## When a weekly review is the right check-in\n\nUse it when daily check-ins feel like too much, or when you already do them but never step back to see the bigger picture. It works best at the point where your week feels finished. For many people that's Sunday evening or Friday afternoon, but pick whichever day marks the end of your week.\n\nIt's especially useful when:\n\n- you have a vague sense that \"this week was hard\" but couldn't say why\n- the same kind of week seems to keep happening\n- you're trying to build or drop a habit and want an honest look at how it went\n- something changed recently, like a new job, a move or a new routine, and you want to see how it's landing\n\n## The five questions\n\nAnswer in a line or two each. Concrete beats complete.\n\n1. **Which mood showed up most this week, and when did it tend to show up?**\n2. **What thought kept coming back?** Write it the way it sounds in your head.\n3. **What got to me most this week, and what happened just before it?**\n4. **Which habit helped, and which one got in the way?**\n5. **What do I want to notice next week?**\n\n## Why these questions work\n\nThe first question asks for a mood *and* a time, because \"anxious\" alone tells you little. \"Anxious on Monday mornings\" is something you can work with.\n\nThe second captures the thought in its own words. Looping thoughts tend to repeat almost word for word, so writing \"I'm always behind\" exactly as you think it makes the repeat easy to recognize across weeks.\n\nThe third looks for the **trigger behind the reaction**. The thing that got to you is often not where it started. What happened just before, such as a skipped lunch, a message from a certain person or a late night, is usually where the pattern hides.\n\nThe fourth keeps habits neutral. Naming one that helped and one that hurt stops the review from turning into a list of failures.\n\nThe fifth turns the look back into something to watch for, without pushing you to fix everything at once.\n\n## How to answer so it's actually useful\n\nBe specific about places, people and times. Compare:\n\n> Work was stressful.\n\n> Tuesday after the team meeting I felt stupid for not speaking up, and I kept replaying it that night.\n\nThe second answer gives you something to recognize next time. Don't try to solve anything during the review. Its only job is to notice.\n\nIf your memory of the week is blurry, look through your calendar, your photos or your messages for a minute first. They bring back moments you'd otherwise lose.\n\n## Patterns that might show up over time\n\nOne review is a snapshot. Several weeks of them start to show repeats you can't see from inside a single week. You might notice:\n\n- **a day or time that keeps dragging**, like Sunday evening dread or a low point mid-week\n- **a thought tied to one situation**, like \"I'm not good enough\" showing up mainly after talking to a particular person\n- **a hidden trigger**, where the bad moments tend to follow poor sleep, a skipped meal or a certain kind of task\n- **a habit that slips under pressure**, like exercise or calling friends disappearing whenever work gets busy\n- **something that quietly helps**, like a walk or an early night appearing in your better weeks more than you realized\n\n## Doing it on paper\n\nWrite the five questions on a card or at the top of a notebook page and answer them in a few lines. Keep the weekly pages together. Every so often, read your last several reviews in one sitting and underline anything you've written more than once. The repeats are the point.\n\n## Making this check-in in undrstand\n\nIn undrstand you can make your own small check-in just by describing it. You could write something like:\n\n> Make me a weekly review for the end of my week. Ask which mood showed up most and when, what thought kept coming back, what got to me most and what happened right before it, one habit that helped and one that got in the way, and what I want to notice next week. Keep it short.\n\nYou can answer by typing, by talking it through out loud, or by taking a photo of your paper page. undrstand then looks across what you've shared over time for hidden triggers, recurring thoughts and habits that get in the way. If you also do quick check-ins during the week, those give it more to connect, so the weekly review doesn't have to rely on memory alone.",5,[29,32,35,38,41],{"question":30,"answer":31},"What day should I do a weekly review check-in?","Do it on whichever day your week feels finished, often Sunday evening or Friday afternoon. Sticking to the same day matters more than which day you pick, because it makes the weeks easier to compare.",{"question":33,"answer":34},"How long should a weekly review take?","Only a few minutes. Five questions with a line or two each is enough. If it starts to feel like a chore, shorten your answers rather than skipping the review.",{"question":36,"answer":37},"What if I can't remember much about my week?","Glance at your calendar, photos or messages before you start. If the week still feels blurry, adding a quick daily check-in gives your weekly review real moments to draw on.",{"question":39,"answer":40},"How is a weekly review different from a daily journal?","A daily journal records each day as it happens. A weekly review steps back and asks what repeated across those days, which is where moods, thoughts and habits start to look like patterns rather than one-offs.",{"question":42,"answer":43},"Is a weekly review check-in a form of therapy?","No. It's a self-reflection habit for noticing what keeps coming up in your life, and undrstand is a self-awareness app, not therapy or medical care. 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