Coaching practices for How to Organize Your Week by Type of Work

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• My whole week is an undifferentiated blur where every single day mixes a bit of everything, and I end most of them drained and somehow with nothing finished
• I dive into Monday with no sense of what the week is actually for, so I end up chasing whatever shouts loudest each day and the two or three things that would make the week a real success never get a protected slot.
• My whole week is just a pile of work tasks, and the parts of me that matter
• My days are a blender
• Every Monday I open a calendar that other people have already filled, and I just react to it all week

Practices that may help

1. Assign a theme to each day of the week
   Decide in advance which type of work each weekday is for and protect those assignments.
   Theme Days, Made Practical
2. Weekly planning
   Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
3. Plan from roles and goals, not from tasks
   Before listing tasks, list your key roles this week and name one meaningful goal for each.
   Big Rocks First
4. Assign broad themes to days of the week
   Dedicate each weekday to a broad category of work (deep creation, meetings, admin) to reduce context-switching.
   Ideal Week Design
5. Create an ideal week template
   Design a blank-canvas week that shows where each type of activity should live, before any specific week's demands arrive.
   Ideal Week Design
6. Apply RPM at the weekly level
   Run the result-purpose-MAP sequence on your week each Sunday to set directional focus before Monday begins.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
7. Identify and schedule big rocks at the start of each week
   On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
   Big Rocks First
8. Set a Monday Vision each week
   Every Monday, name three outcomes for the week before the week’s reactive demands crowd them out.
   Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
9. Theme Days, Made Practical
   Theme days assign a single type of work to each day of the week — for example, Mondays for meetings, Tuesdays for deep work, Wednesdays for administrative tasks — so context-switching is minimized and cognitive setup costs are paid once per day rather than many times. The approach is a practitioner structure consistent with attention-residue and task-switching research, but has not been formally trialed as a specific technique.
10. Protect time for work that matches your genius
    Deliberately schedule blocks of genius-type work before filling the rest of the week.
    The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)

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