Coaching practices for Weekly Planning Values
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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
- I’m efficient and on top of my tasks, but I’ve lost the thread of why any of it matters
- Another week just vanished and the few things I actually meant to do never happened
- I tend to figure out my plan the same morning I’m supposed to start, in a rush to just get going
- I only bother to plan on the calm days, which means I skip it exactly on the chaotic ones when I need it most
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 - Anchor the week to your personal mission statement
Before weekly planning, briefly re-read your personal mission statement to orient priorities.
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 - 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 - 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 - Weekly planning
Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
Time Blocking, Made Practical - Values-based scheduling
Block time for purpose-aligned activities before reactive obligations fill the calendar.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day - 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 - Chunk and schedule time for key results
Block specific chunks of time for the actions in your MAP and protect them as non-negotiable.
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical - Set three weekly outcomes every Monday to anchor daily planning
Weekly outcomes give daily planning a higher-level context, so daily three’s compound toward something larger.
The Rule of Three for Productivity, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Daily 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
- 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 Roles
Before listing tasks, list your key roles this week and name one meaningful goal for each.
- Weekly Planning Routine
The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
- Weekly Planning System
The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
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