Weekly Success Planner

The Weekly Success Planner asks two questions every Monday. What are the three things that would make this week a win? And what is most likely to stop you? Three priorities linked to your live goals, then the distractions you can predict, and a short line on how you will protect your focus. At the end of the week, you come back and mark what actually moved. Three is the number for a reason. A weekly list of 12 becomes a list of 12 things that you won't finish, and by Wednesday, then you're choosing randomly what to do next. Naming the distraction is actually doing some real work. This is implementation intentions, Peter Gollwitzer's research from 1999, which found that deciding in advance what you will do when an obstacle appears sharply increases your follow-through. You already know what derails your week. Writing it down on a Monday means that you meet it with a plan, instead of a decision you have to make on the fly. The Friday review is the bit that people often skip, but it's actually where the learning is. Over a few weeks, you will see which kind of priority you finish and which you do not, and that pattern beats seeing what happens in any single week. Ten minutes on a Monday and then five minutes on a Friday, and you'll find that most people get a great deal out of this tool.