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Sunday Reset · Episode 9

The Weekly Close — Don't Carry Unfinished Business Into a New Week

Unbearably Bullish with Donald B. Johns III · Sep 20, 2026 · 15 min

Show Notes

Close the week before you plan the next one. Donald walks through the Five Closing Bells and the Open Loops Audit, plus a Sunday market preview.

Sunday Reset #9

Before you plan Monday, close the week you just lived.

Unfinished business does not disappear when the calendar changes. The conversation you keep postponing. The task you started but never completed. The decision you refused to make. They stay open in your mind, consuming attention and following you into Monday.

You do not always need a new goal. Sometimes you need a closing bell.

In this Sunday Reset episode of the Unbearably Bullish Podcast, Donald Johns borrows the discipline of the market close: positions measured, gains and losses recorded, the books updated. Not a verdict. An honest record of what happened.

In This Episode

  • The Five Closing Bells: Review, Recognize, Resolve, Release, Reinvest
  • Why feelings alone are not a complete weekly report
  • Writing down three honest wins (not three stories for social media)
  • The Open Loops Audit: Finish, Schedule, Delegate or Delete
  • The Bear says you can't delete that. 🐂 The Bull asks: does it still deserve to be done?
  • Take the lesson, leave the luggage
  • Your calendar is a capital allocation document
  • Sunday Market Edition: post-Fed week, business activity reports, jobless claims, new home sales, durable goods and consumer sentiment
  • Sunday Fun Day assignment and five Sunday journal questions
  • The Bull Charge Challenge: a 20-minute open loops sprint

Nothing remains mentally open without an intentional decision.

Close the week. Clear the ledger. Ring the bell. And begin again.

Reset Today. Dominate Tomorrow.

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