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This document provides guidance on how to effectively plan one's week using a method called "The Winning The Week Method." [1] The method involves removing internal resistance to planning, creating a positive planning experience, [2] learning a lesson from the previous week, identifying a high-impact priority for the current week, interrogating and optimizing one's calendar, [3] triaging tasks, and allocating time to tasks in the calendar. Following these steps is said to help one consistently plan and win each week.

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The Winning The Week Method™ Worksheet (Go To File - Make A Copy)

This document provides guidance on how to effectively plan one's week using a method called "The Winning The Week Method." [1] The method involves removing internal resistance to planning, creating a positive planning experience, [2] learning a lesson from the previous week, identifying a high-impact priority for the current week, interrogating and optimizing one's calendar, [3] triaging tasks, and allocating time to tasks in the calendar. Following these steps is said to help one consistently plan and win each week.

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This worksheet accompanies the book

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


Planning your week can be extremely anxiety-provoking. It can kick off a
fight-or-flight response from your limbic brain that keeps you from
consistently and thoroughly planning ahead of time.

That’s why Step 0 of The Winning The Week Method is removing this
internal resistance.

The “hack” is to create a craveable experience for your pre-planning that you
look forward to. For example, pre-planning at a beautiful cafe, or making
yourself a special treat to eat. This is something you can decide on once, and
do the same way each week (or keep tweaking it until you are happy).

Write down the craveable experience you will create for yourself while
you pre-plan:
Looking for a lesson or improvement each week creates a positive feedback
loop, wherein you get slightly better each week. The impact can be
completely life-changing within one year. See this as an opportunity to try
new things, evaluate your wins and losses, and fine-tune your game.

Use the following questions to find a lesson from your past week:

Groundhog Day Question: If you could relive the past week a thousand
times, what would the perfect execution have looked like?

Double Down Question: What worked well this week that I should double
down on next week?

Click here for the Learn A Lesson Cheat Sheet

Write down a lesson from the past week:


The biggest planning error is choosing the wrong priority (or choosing
multiple, equal priorities instead of just one). This spreads your focus and
dilutes your impact, trapping you in a vicious cycle of overwork.

Instead, identify the top leveraged priority that you’ll aim to complete early on
in the week (ideally on Monday or Tuesday).

Your success or failure at achieving this priority is a large part of what will
determine if you’ve “won” or “lost” this week — so make it achievable, yet
highly leveraged.

If you’re drawing a blank, ask yourself the Leveraging Question*:

What action can I take this week that makes future weeks easier?

*based on Gary Keller and Jay Papasan’s question in The ONE Thing, “What is the one thing you can do
such that, by doing it, everything else becomes easier or unnecessary?”

Write down your leveraged priority for the coming week:


Your calendar represents your entire supply of time—your precious 168 hours
a week. Your task in this step of The Winning The Week Method is to make
sure your calendar is accurately representing your time supply, meaning
finding every tiny error buried in your calendar and correcting them.

To be able to truly trust your calendar, you’ll have to interrogate your calendar
like a lawyer interrogating a witness. This goes far beyond the passive
calendar “review” to reveal your true supply of time, often turning up hidden
stores of time you didn’t realize you had.

Click here for the Interrogate Your Calendar Cheat Sheet

Write down any landmines or errors you found in your calendar:


The nature of human beings is to want to do more than they have time for.
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?”

For this you will be scanning your task list for things you can terminate,
automate, consolidate, and outsource, such that the only remaining tasks are
high priority or incredibly urgent.

Follow the Live-Or-Die Task Triage Process to optimize your task list.

Tasks I can terminate, automate, consolidate, outsource, move to my


Someday List, or push out into a future week…

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.
Having interrogated your calendar and triaged your task list, you must now
allocate time demands to your time supply. In practice that means allocating
time in your calendar to get each task done (also known as “calendarizing”
your task list). This is where your plan becomes a plan.

Use the Lifehack Calendarizing Process to match your tasks to time slots
in your calendar.

Have you: Yes/No

Put the good stuff in first?

Planned Deep Work for your leveraged priority early in the


week?

Put in sufficient UUW time (Flex Time)?

Stuffed Shallow Work into the cracks?

Allocated all your time supply?


YOU’RE DONE. Congratulations!

You’re well on your way to winning your week, every week. You’ll really start
seeing results when you make this a consistent weekly ritual.

If you’d like to get some accountability and do your weekly pre-planning


LIVE with Demir and the whole Lifehack community, join our Lifehack
Tribe membership. We host two live pre-planning sessions each Friday.

Click here to join for $1

Take a pic and tag us @demirandcarey on Instagram/Facebook so we can celebrate with you!

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