Three meetings you should kill this week
A Friday review that names the meetings worth declining, delegating, or making async
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Three meetings next week, three and a half hours in all, are worth questioning.
- Decline: Monday's one-hour vendor sync. Notes from its last four meetings show no decisions and nothing assigned to you.
- Delegate: Wednesday's one-hour Sparrow & Sons check-in. Casey Reed took over the timeline two weeks ago and could run it.
- Make async: Thursday's 90-minute status meeting. Its notes are mostly updates, which could go in a shared doc.
The problem
Calendars only grow. A recurring meeting is born in a burst of optimism and then runs for eighteen months after its reason died, and nobody owns the decision to end it.
You cannot declutter what you never review. So the review is the routine.
What it does
Every Friday, this routine reads next week's calendar and names three meetings worth questioning: ones you can decline, delegate, or turn into an async update.
It is the standing appointment that protects all your other time. Fifteen minutes of decisions, hours back every week.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every Friday suggest 3 meetings on next week's calendar that I should decline delegate or make async
Why make it a routine?
You can fake this with a chat skill and enough copy-paste. Most people keep it up for a week, then stop, because the copy-paste is the actual job.
A routine removes the choreography: the context is already there, the schedule is already set, and the output shows up where you need it.
And it is private by design: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA aligned, and your data is never sold.
Frequently asked questions
Why only three meetings?
Three is the number people actually act on. A list of twenty gets ignored; three gets decided by Friday afternoon.
Will it cancel them for me?
No. It recommends; you decline, delegate, or keep. The calendar stays yours.
How long is the trial?
14 days on Plus. After the trial, Plus is $17 a month ($20 month-to-month). This routine also runs on the free Basic plan, which includes 5 routines.
Does my team see any of this?
No. The review is private to you, and your data is never sold. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA aligned.
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