Schedule template · Workdays

Two long focus blocks a day. Meetings wait for the afternoon.

The Deep Work Week. For work that needs your whole head, not the gaps between calls.

  • Time block
  • Routine
  • Protected time
  • Left open on purpose
  • Gentle prompt
  1. Pick today’s Top 3 (prompt, 8:30 AM to 8:45 AM)
  2. Notifications off (routine, 8:45 AM to 9:00 AM)
  3. Deep work · protected (protected time, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM)
  4. Messages and admin (time block, 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM)
  5. Lunch (protected time, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM)
  6. Meetings (time block, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM)
  7. Walk or reset (left open on purpose, 3:00 PM to 3:15 PM)
  8. Deep work, part two (time block, 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM)
  9. Close loops · set up tomorrow (time block, 4:45 PM to 5:15 PM)
  10. Shutdown ritual (routine, 5:15 PM to 5:30 PM)