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

I have a fun acronym, TACO, that can help you cut down the size of your to-do list as you’re processing it. It stands for Terminate, Automate, Consolidate, and Outsource.

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.

If this task doesn’t have a specific due date in the next month, it’s likely a Someday Task.

The second layer of accountability is a buddy.

Let’s clear something up before we go on: your priority is not the only thing you’ll do this week. Quite the opposite—it’s probably just one of a thousand things you’ll do! Rather, your priority is the thing, above all others, that must be done. It’s the task that must be put at the front of the line and given the right-of-way. Simply put, if you o

allow me to peel back some layers and explain why I think the weekly focus is so powerful. Reason #1: It Maps Well to Real Life

“The best way to change long-term behavior is with short-term feedback.” —Seth Godin

This is where you make the tough choices about what’s really going to happen in your week, with eyes wide open to the consequences. Having interrogated your calendar and triaged your task list, you must now allocate demand to your fixed supply. In practice, that means allocating time in your calendar to get each task done (also known as “calendariz

Take a few minutes to open up your calendar and review the next fourteen days. I realize that sounds strange because most people will just look at the next seven days. But that forms a blind spot in your plan. If you only review Sunday to Sunday, what happens if you have a big project due the following Monday? That project would be lurking in your