Coaching practices for Weekly Planning Roles
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My whole week is just a pile of work tasks, and the parts of me that matter
- Another week just vanished and the few things I actually meant to do never happened
- Every Monday I open a calendar that other people have already filled, and I just react to it all week
- I tend to figure out my plan the same morning I’m supposed to start, in a rush to just get going
- I’m so buried in the daily grind that I never lift my head to ask whether I’m even working on the right things
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Use a planning and strategy day
Reserve a recurring window for thinking about direction, reviewing systems, and planning the coming week.
Theme Days, Made Practical - Make the evening list a non-negotiable daily ritual
The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
The Ivy Lee Method, Made Practical - Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Schedule rocks in your calendar before anything else
Block time for your rocks in the first planning step — before reactive commitments fill the day.
The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management - Weekly planning
Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
Time Blocking, Made Practical - 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
Related concerns
- Sunday Planning Routine
On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
Identify and schedule big rocks at the start of each week
- Weekly Planning
Before listing tasks, list your key roles this week and name one meaningful goal for each.
Plan from roles and goals, not from tasks
- Weekly Planning Routine
The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
Make the evening list a non-negotiable daily ritual
- Daily Planning Routine
The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
- Monday Planning System
On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
- Proactive Planning Week
On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
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