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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.

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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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