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How to Win Your Week

Sometimes you get year-long updates, sometimes you get one-minute blog posts, and sometimes I'm in the giving mood.

Right now….It’s giving time baby!

I'm going to show you how I've planned every week for the last 38 weeks. It's not a perfect system (it might be close). But it works incredibly well for me.

You might think that planning out every single week is for over-achieving neurotic nerds (like myself). I thought so too until I realized I was experiencing a Groundhog Day of Monday scaries. Not Sunday scaries—it was always Monday.

I still don't know why…

For almost all of 2023, I felt overwhelmed when Monday morning came around. I'd be hit with a flurry of messages, requests for time, or miss my morning workout. Suddenly I'd feel behind for the week, extremely anxious, let myself go with the flow.

The problem: I was letting other people and external factors dictate my time, not the other way around. I was playing defense. I was protecting my time from requests and distractions.

That used to be me. Week after week.

I follow some successful people and noticed they all plan their weeks. But not with to-do lists. Instead, they break down their weeks into small, bite-sized goals.

They play offense with their time.

I wanted to do the same thing: take back control of my time. Not by making to-do lists, but by planning and prioritizing the big goals for the week.

If you fill a jar with sand there is no space to put the big rocks (your big goals). If you fit the jar with your rocks first, you can pour sand in after to fill those empty gaps. We’re doing the same thing here.

Put your big rocks in the jar and then fill it with sand.

Now when someone asks for my time, I already know whether I can say yes. I have my workouts, goals, and priorities for the week top of mind.

I saw two people break this down best: Noah Kagan (see below) and Tara Viswanathan (link here).

I did what great artists do: I stole bits and pieces from each and made them my own.

I'm going to give you the exact framework for how I fill out my version week by week.

I started doing this in March of this year and haven't missed a single week since. I have no intention of stopping.

I've included descriptions on how to fill out each section.

You can get that right here 👉🏻 Jared Seidel’s Weekly Breakdown Template

Now go use this and play offense with your time.

Win your week.

Every week.

You’re Awesome,

Jared

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