Design a sustainable weekly routine around my highest-value work
Builds a repeatable weekly template that protects your most important responsibilities and keeps your hours sustainable.
The prompt
Redesign my typical week so it's built around my most important work and is sustainable.
My role and highest-value responsibilities: [e.g. "team leadership, pricing decisions, key client relationships"]
Recurring commitments: [meetings, reports, 1:1s, admin - with time for each]
Target working hours per week: [e.g. "45, no weekends"]
Energy pattern: [when I'm sharpest, when I'm drained]
Non-negotiables outside work: [e.g. "school pickup at 3:30 on Tuesdays"]
Steps:
1. Total my recurring commitments and compare them with my target hours.
2. Reserve time for my highest-value responsibilities first, in my best energy hours.
3. Fit recurring work around that, with admin and email batched into set windows.
4. Leave a 15-20% buffer for unplanned work.
5. If it doesn't fit, recommend what to shrink, move, or hand off.
Return:
1. A weekly template: | Day | Morning | Midday | Afternoon |, with themed blocks.
2. Hours by type (high-value work, recurring work, meetings, admin, buffer), compared with today if I gave enough detail.
3. The changes needed to make it real: meetings to shorten, reports to drop, requests to redirect.
4. Rules that protect it (e.g. no meetings before 11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays).
5. A monthly 15-minute check to see whether the routine still fits.
Make it work for a real job with real interruptions, not an ideal one, and never plan beyond my target hours.
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What to fill in
- meetings, reports, 1:1s, admin - with time for each
- e.g. "45, no weekends"
- when I'm sharpest, when I'm drained
- e.g. "school pickup at 3:30 on Tuesdays"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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