Coaching practices for Proactive Planning Week

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Another week just vanished and the few things I actually meant to do never happened
• My whole week is just a pile of work tasks, and the parts of me that matter
• Every Monday I open a calendar that other people have already filled, and I just react to it all week
• 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.
• 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

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Weekly planning
   Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
5. 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
6. 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
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. 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
9. Separate the planning session from the execution day
   Do your planning in a dedicated session, never on the day you intend to start.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
10. 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.

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