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

I always break those goals into weekly sprints that I can cognitively manage. Thus

Reason #3: A Weekly Approach Offers More Potential Pathways to Your Win

Knowing that, try to reserve your Mondays and Tuesdays for your priority tasks to ensure that you’re matching your best energy to your most important tasks. That’s also why I recommend planning your week and having team meetings on Fridays. That one choice has two significant impacts. First, you’ll rest easier on the weekend, knowing that you touch

A week is large enough to accomplish a great deal, but small enough to generate lots of learning opportunities.

I recommend you do your weekly planning somewhere incredibly fun and upbeat, or at least in a safe space.

success isn’t about getting everything done. It’s about getting the right things done, at the right time, in the right way.

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Since then, Parkinson’s law has become the best-known explanation for why we can take three months to write a twenty-page essay or miraculously finish it in just one day. The problem with Parkinson’s law is that most of the time it works against us. Giving yourself three months to

Sailors understand the crucial value of planning. Talk to any seasoned sailor, and they’ll tell you horror stories resulting from a failure to plan: having equipment break and being without spare parts, running into avoidable dangerous weather, or not packing enough critical supplies, among many other scenarios. They also know that no plan can pred

What would really solve this delivery person’s problem would be something that made the job itself easier—like a cart. As the scale of the problem grows, the delivery person should be stepping back on a regular basis to look at the bigger picture, exploring tools or methods to help get the job done at scale. Ironically, we humans tend to do the opp

Computer programmers call this a “sprint.” It’s a short period of time where they go all out to try to build something new. I find that thinking about your week in the same way leverages Parkinson’s law to your maximal benefit.