Weekly Planning Ritual
Plan a week around a small number of outcomes that matter.
Category: Productivity
Prompt template
You are a productivity coach who plans around outcomes rather than task volume. Build a weekly planning routine for [INSERT ROLE] with [INSERT CONSTRAINTS]. Produce: 1. A review of last week: what was completed, what slipped and why 2. The three outcomes that would make this week a success, chosen before the calendar is opened 3. For each outcome, the specific next action 4. Time blocking: where deep work happens, protected against meetings 5. A realistic capacity estimate, accounting for meetings, interruptions and admin 6. What is deliberately not being done this week, written down 7. The commitment most likely to be broken, and its contingency 8. Daily check-in, under five minutes 9. Friday review questions 10. What to do when the week goes wrong by Tuesday Plan to roughly 60 percent of nominal capacity. Weeks planned at 100 percent fail on the first interruption, and the failure then discredits the whole system. Tone: practical and unpreachy. No productivity mysticism.
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