Perfect Week Template: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Try it here: sketch the week you want to live
Write the parts of your ideal week you want to protect, before the week's demands arrive.
Write the parts of your ideal week you want to protect.
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - Weekly planning
Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
Time Blocking, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - 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
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Every Monday I open a calendar that other people have already filled, and I just react to it all week
- 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
- I walk into Monday blind and then keep getting blindsided mid-week
- Every week starts with me reacting to whatever hits the inbox first, so by Friday I’ve been slammed nonstop yet the few things that actually mattered never got touched
Related concerns
- How To Design Your 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
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 Perfect Week
Draw the week you want to live, then defend it from the week that arrives.
- How To Plan Your Week
Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
Weekly planning
- 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
- Michael Hyatt Ideal Week
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.
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