Coaching practices for 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 Want to Draw the Week I'd Genuinely Want to Live and Then Protect Those Blocks Before the Requests Swallow Them

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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
• 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.
• Another week just vanished and the few things I actually meant to do never happened
• I walk into Monday blind and then keep getting blindsided mid-week

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. Weekly planning
   Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
4. 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
5. 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
6. Protecting unscheduled time
   Leave deliberate gaps in the calendar instead of filling every hour.
   Slow Living, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Build buffer blocks into the ideal week
   Schedule 60–90 minutes of unallocated buffer each day to absorb the unexpected without derailing priorities.
   Ideal Week Design
9. 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
10. 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

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