Happy Monday 🌞

This week I’m coming off of three days in person in Boulder for Buffer’s Marketing leadership onsite. As a fully remote team, having that in-person time is always extremely valuable. If you have more questions about that, please reply with them, and I might share a bit more in a future newsletter or article.

If you’ve ever had an intense week where all of your routines are changed because you’re traveling, you’ll understand the value of a reset and just getting everything feeling really good at work and home. That was my desire yesterday — my focus was on making sure we had groceries, cleaning the house, and spending time planning for the week ahead.

Some people say this planning for the week should happen on Monday when you’re back at work, but Sundays just work better for me. I don’t want to spend Mondays easing into the week and deciding what I’ll work on; I want to be ready to hit the ground running.

So here’s what I do on Sundays to plan for the week ahead:

• Reflect on the previous week
• Review my goals, projects, and priorities
• Review my calendar to make sure it supports those priorities
• Review my to-do list to make sure it reflects the plan

This check-in usually takes me about 20 minutes in total, and it is such a grounding way to start a new week.

→ Here’s step-by-step how I do weekly planning​

I hope you have a lovely week ahead. As always, feel free to reply if this sparks any thoughts or questions.

See you next week,

Hailley

P.S.: Head over to my Instagram for a few photos from Boulder this week.

• Last week, I found myself recommending Ryan Holiday’s book Discipline is Destiny again; I finished it in 2022, so it wasn’t on my 2023 books list, but it is a book I still think of regularly.
• A bit of a throwback — here’s a post I wrote 4 years ago for my 4th anniversary of working at Buffer. I’m coming up on 8 years in just over a week and have been spending some time reflecting on the journey.
• I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on brand messaging pillars for Buffer. Here’s one resource on messaging frameworks that I quite like. Please pass along any others you’ve enjoyed!

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