Coaching practices for Ideal Week Design During a Big Change
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- Every week fills itself with whatever lands in my calendar first, and I get to Friday having never touched the things I actually care about
- I made a real plan for the week and somewhere along the way it quietly fell apart again, and I genuinely can’t tell you where it went sideways
- Every Monday I open a calendar that other people have already filled, and I just react to it all week
- My days are a blender
- 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
Practices that may help
- Ideal Week Design
Michael Hyatt's Ideal Week framework asks you to design the week you would want before the week you have arrives — assigning broad themes to each day and protecting time for your most important work. It is a proactive design exercise, not a rigid schedule, that gives you a template to return to when reactive demands take over. The method is widely used in executive productivity coaching; direct experimental evidence for the format is limited. - Design your ideal week before you fill it
Draw the week you want to live, then defend it from the week that arrives.
Lifestyle Design, Made Practical - Compare ideal and actual week each Friday
Review the gap between the week you designed and the week you lived, and pick one structural change.
Ideal Week Design - 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 - 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 - 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 - Run a weekly preview before the week begins
On Sunday evening, scan the incoming week against your ideal week template and protect what matters.
Ideal Week Design - Set realistic goals and chip away at them — resist "crush it" culture
Aspirational goals that require heroic effort normalize crisis; realistic goals with steady progress normalize calm.
Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson) - 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 - Run a small experiment before committing to Plan B or C
Design the smallest possible real-world experience that would tell you something true about a plan before you commit to it.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
Related concerns
- Design Your Perfect Week
Draw the week you want to live, then defend it from the week that arrives.
Design your ideal week before you fill it
- Ideal Week Design During Conflict
Michael Hyatt's Ideal Week framework asks you to design the week you would want before the week you have arrives — assigning broad themes to each day and protecting time for your most important work. It is a proactive design exercise, not a rigid schedule, that gives you a template to return to when reactive demands take over. The method is widely used in executive productivity coaching; direct experimental evidence for the format is limited.
- Ideal Week Design Under Stress
Michael Hyatt's Ideal Week framework asks you to design the week you would want before the week you have arrives — assigning broad themes to each day and protecting time for your most important work. It is a proactive design exercise, not a rigid schedule, that gives you a template to return to when reactive demands take over. The method is widely used in executive productivity coaching; direct experimental evidence for the format is limited.
- Ideal Week Design When Burned Out
Michael Hyatt's Ideal Week framework asks you to design the week you would want before the week you have arrives — assigning broad themes to each day and protecting time for your most important work. It is a proactive design exercise, not a rigid schedule, that gives you a template to return to when reactive demands take over. The method is widely used in executive productivity coaching; direct experimental evidence for the format is limited.
- Ideal Week Design When Overwhelmed
Michael Hyatt's Ideal Week framework asks you to design the week you would want before the week you have arrives — assigning broad themes to each day and protecting time for your most important work. It is a proactive design exercise, not a rigid schedule, that gives you a template to return to when reactive demands take over. The method is widely used in executive productivity coaching; direct experimental evidence for the format is limited.
- Ideal Week Template
Design a blank-canvas week that shows where each type of activity should live, before any specific week's demands arrive.
Create an ideal week template
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