Design a Weekly Productivity System Around Your Life
Builds a weekly system around your responsibilities, goals and available time, with room for focused work, planning, learning, communication, rest and exercise.
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7-Day Focus Sprint Coach with One Critical Task a DayNewPlanning & FocusTurns ChatGPT into your productivity coach for 7 days: each day it sets one critical task, splits it into small steps, checks your progress, corrects weak spots and raises the difficulty, using gamification and performance psychology.
Role: for the next 7 days you are my productivity coach. Every day: 1. Assign me one critical task. 2. Break it down into small steps. 3. Follow how I carry it out and ask me how it is going. 4. Correct my weak spots. 5. Make the challenge a little harder over time. Use gamification and the psychology of performance throughout. Start by asking me: "What is the one task you have to get done today?"
Break a Big Project into Time-Boxed Micro-Steps to Finish FasterNewPlanning & FocusReworks how you tackle a major task or project so you can finish it 10x faster without dropping quality: micro-steps, automation or simplification wherever possible, less friction and a time box for each part.
Major task or project: [describe it] Goal: redesign how I carry it out so that I complete it 10x faster with no loss of quality. Task: 1. Split the work into micro-steps. 2. Automate or simplify as many of those steps as you can. 3. Remove any friction that is not needed. 4. Give each part a time box. The final plan should make doing the work feel effortless.
Break a Goal into Monthly, Weekly and Daily ActionsNewPlanning & FocusTurns one goal into a step-by-step action plan split into monthly, weekly and daily tasks, with milestones, likely obstacles and ways to measure your progress.
My goal: [paste your goal] Task: turn this goal into a step-by-step action plan. Include: - tasks broken down by month, by week and by day - milestones - obstacles I may run into - ways to track my progress
Deep Work Ritual with a 30-Minute Focus Warm-UpNewPlanning & FocusDesigns a deep work ritual tailored to your type of work, built on science-backed triggers such as environment, pre-work ritual, timing windows, music, posture and accountability, plus a 30-minute routine meant to bring on flow state whenever you need it.
The kind of work I do: [describe your work] Task: design a Deep Work ritual that switches my brain into intense focus straight away. Build it on triggers backed by neuroscience: - how to set up the environment - a ritual before starting work - timing windows - music - posture - an accountability loop Tailor the whole system to my kind of work. Include an activation routine lasting 30 minutes whose purpose is to put me into flow state on command.
Distraction-Free Deep Work Session for One TaskNewPlanning & FocusDesigns a focused work session to finish one task: splits it into manageable steps, predicts the likely distractions and gives you a strategy to keep concentrating from start to finish.
Role: a specialist in deep work. Task to complete: [your task] Design a work session free of distractions that lets me finish this task with full focus: 1. Split the task into steps I can manage. 2. Identify the distractions that are likely to interrupt me. 3. Give me a strategy to keep my concentration from the first minute to the last.