Coaching practices for I Can See the Wall Coming a Newborn a Brutal Travel Week a Deadline Sprint Where I Know I Won't Sleep and I Don't Want to Hit it Already Running on Empty I Want to Go in with Something in Reserve From the Calm Days Right Before it

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• I can see the wall coming
• I walk into Monday blind and then keep getting blindsided mid-week
• I pack my day wall-to-wall with back-to-back blocks, and then one task running long knocks the next one back, which knocks the next one back, and by mid-afternoon the whole schedule has collapsed and I’m behind on everything.
• I plan every day packed end to end with no gaps, so the first thing that runs long knocks over everything after it like dominoes
• When something’s due weeks away, I tell myself there’s plenty of time and do nothing until the night before

Practices that may help

1. Extend sleep before an anticipated shortfall
   Sleep longer — 9–10 hours if you can tolerate it — for several nights before a period of known sleep restriction.
   Sleep Banking: Building a Buffer Before Sleep Loss
2. 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
3. Deliberately underschedule your day to prevent expansion cascade
   Leave 20–30% of your workday unscheduled as buffer for tasks that expand beyond their box.
   Parkinson's Law, Made Practical
4. Buffer and overflow blocks
   Schedule empty buffer time to absorb overruns and the unexpected.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
5. Self-imposed deadlines
   Bind yourself to interim deadlines instead of one distant due date.
   Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts)
6. Protecting unscheduled time
   Leave deliberate gaps in the calendar instead of filling every hour.
   Slow Living, Made Practical
7. Protect genuinely unscheduled time
   Leave deliberate empty space in your calendar instead of optimizing it away.
   Time Affluence, Made Practical
8. Protect the shutdown time from late-day urgency
   The moment you are most tempted to skip the shutdown is the moment you most need it.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
9. Weekly planning
   Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
10. Set deadlines shorter than you think you need
    Assign a deadline that is tighter than comfortable — not unrealistic, but just tight enough to prevent scope creep.
    Parkinson's Law, Made Practical

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