Coaching practices for Michael Hyatt Ideal Week

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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
• Every Monday I open a calendar that other people have already filled, and I just react to it all week
• 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
• My lists have gone stale and I’ve stopped trusting them, so I’m back to carrying everything in my head and dreading Monday
• I walk into Monday blind and then keep getting blindsided mid-week

Practices that may help

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Do a brief weekly review and planning session
   Each week, review what happened, clear the decks, and commit to next week’s MITs.
   Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Weekly planning
    Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
    Time Blocking, Made Practical

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