Winning the Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week

What most people do in a brain dump is load all of this crap into their to-do list. But cramming your to-do list with Someday Tasks is a recipe for failure because your list quickly becomes too overwhelming to look at, which causes something I call “task overload.”

Reason #4: A Weekly Approach Encourages You to Synchronize Your Productivity Skills into a Cohesive Whole

What if you could relive the past week over and over again, and discover what “perfect” looks like for you? You wouldn’t be able to change your outside circumstances, like last-minute interruptions and emergencies, but you could change your approach and your reactions.

Looking for a lesson or improvement each week is essential.

At its core, the secret to success with the Lifehack Method has been our commitment to creating these four layers of accountability for our clients. This simple concept has set us apart in a crowded coaching space and contributed to a 145 percent compound annual growth rate over the last six years. Now that you know about the layers of accountabili

In my Lifehack Tribe membership community, I host a monthly event called Accountability Buddy Speed Dating. It’s essentially a networking event where members of the Tribe can quickly meet dozens of potential buddies all at once.

I introduced you to a much more powerful filter: the Leveraging Question. That filter will reveal the actions that amplify your efforts far beyond what you believed was possible. By utilizing the Leveraging Question, you will accomplish tasks that both are important and make your life permanently easier.

But in a world where you can’t do it all, you need to ruthlessly triage your task list. That means letting go of the fantasy of “getting it all done” and asking a far better question: “How can I do the most good with my limited supply of time?”

This is the first practical step in your weekly planning session. You’ll take five minutes to reflect on your past week and try to find one powerful lesson, then use that to improve your performance in the coming week.

Suppose you find that (even after optimizing your calendar) you don’t have enough available time to complete your leveraged priority. In that case, it’s time to adjust that goal to something else that’s achievable within the limitations of your week.