Here’s a great management idea I’d never heard before from The Window Manager himself:

One of my tasks when I worked at Texas Instruments was to do a "weekly". For those of you not familiar with this little management tool, this is a bulletized memo that lists the tasks you accomplished for the week, the tasks you are going to do the following week, and what your upcoming schedule looks like, particularly if you're traveling. It also might include short summaries of customer meetings or market data that was picked up in the field.

My manager collected the weeklies of everyone under him, picked the "best" bullet points, and sent a weekly to his manager. His manager collected the weeklies from HIS people, picked the best bullets, and sent a weekly to HIS manager, and so on up the chain. At twenty-two, I thought it was an accomplishment if one of "my bullets" made it into the VP's weekly since it had to percolate up three or four layers of weeklies to make it to that level.

If you work for (or by) yourself, do your “weekly” on Friday, put it in a drawer, and then review it on Monday.   However, instead of listing the tasks you accomplished, think a bit bigger.  List the things you are proud you accomplished, and things you have to do next week that will make you proud and/or happy when they are done.  If you are lucky enough to have a support group, share your weekly accomplishments with one another.