Sunday used to be the day I dreaded Monday.

Not because I didn’t love my work — I do. But because I’d get to Sunday evening with the week ahead feeling like a pile of unformed obligations, and I’d spend more mental energy worrying about it than actually preparing for it.

I was busy all week. But I wasn’t intentional about it. There’s a difference.

The Sunday Reset is the habit that changed that. It’s not complicated. It takes about 45 minutes. And it’s the single reason I can carry everything I carry — team, clients, family, brand — without constantly feeling like something is about to fall apart.

What the Sunday Reset is (and isn’t)

It is not a productivity hack. It’s a weekly check-in with yourself.

It’s the 45 minutes where you step out of the current of the week and look at everything from one level up. Where are you actually going this week? What matters most? What has been quietly accumulating that needs attention?

Without this, you run on momentum — executing on whatever feels most urgent, most visible, most demanding. That might work for a week. It doesn’t work for a life.

The four parts of my Sunday Reset

1. Review the past week (10 minutes)

I don’t journal extensively. I ask three questions:

  • What went well that I should repeat?
  • What drained me that I should reduce or eliminate?
  • What did I say I’d do that I didn’t do — and why?

That last question is important. Not for self-criticism, but for honesty. The things that keep not getting done are either not actually priorities, or they need to be broken into smaller steps.

2. Look at the week ahead (10 minutes)

I open my calendar and actually look at it. Not just the meetings — the space between the meetings.

  • Where are the pockets for focused work?
  • Where are the likely interruptions (Aki’s schedule, team check-ins, client calls)?
  • What has to happen this week versus what can move?

I also check if anything in my financial life needs attention. A bill. A follow-up. A client whose policy is due for review. This habit of touching finances weekly is small but it prevents surprises.

3. Set the three (5 minutes)

I choose three things that, if I accomplish them this week, will make the week a success.

Not ten. Not a full task list. Three.

I write them down physically. This matters. Something about the act of writing — not typing — makes them feel real and chosen, not just accumulated.

These three things anchor every day. When the week gets chaotic — and it always does — I return to the three.

4. Prepare tomorrow specifically (10 minutes)

Sunday night, I set up Monday.

  • What time am I starting?
  • What’s the first task I’m doing before I open messages?
  • Is there anything I need to prepare, send, or decide before Monday begins?

Monday morning is the most vulnerable moment of the week. If you start it reactively — opening your inbox and responding to whoever got there first — the tone is set and it’s hard to recover.

The Sunday Reset makes Monday start from intention, not from other people’s urgency.

What this has to do with your financial life

Everything.

The same professionals who feel overwhelmed by their finances are usually the ones who only think about money when they have to — when a bill comes in, when a payment is due, when someone asks them to sign something.

The Sunday Reset teaches you a different relationship with your life: one where you look ahead instead of just react.

Apply the same logic to your financial life. One weekly money check. Five minutes. No judgment — just awareness.

Where is your money this week? What’s coming in, what’s going out, what needs a decision?

That’s not financial planning. That’s financial presence. And it changes everything.

The compounding effect

I’ve been doing some version of this reset for three years.

The impact is hard to measure in a single week. But over three years, it has meant:

Fewer dropped balls. Fewer reactive decisions. More mornings that start with intention. More weeks that end with a sense of completion instead of just exhaustion.

The Sunday Reset is not about being more productive. It’s about being more deliberate — with your time, your energy, and eventually, with your money.

45 minutes. Every Sunday.

That’s the whole thing.