How to Plan Your Week
From the Book of Organization
Sometimes I get lost in the weeds on how to plan a week.
The best place to start is to ask yourself what is the most ideal outcome would be from this week ahead?
Start from a place of imagination and believe there are no limits to what you can accomplish this week.
From this place we can start to imagine how we will spend our most creative time blocks1. Those are the themes for each day.
So let’s apply this to an example:
Ideal outcome: A new piece of music is finished by Friday
Monday: Start to look for inspiration and past recordings of things you’ve done
Tuesday: Work on a first draft of a song with a timer for 30 minutes
Wednesday: Take a second pass at it after the idea is in place but needs work
Thursday: Finish the piece
Friday: Review and do any extra work such as artwork
Obviously nothing is going to go exactly to plan, but at least you have an idea of how each day will contribute to this mini-goal.
If you don’t have a plan for how to spend your time, someone else will make that plan for you, whether it’s a streaming service or other people.
From this place, we can see how important it is to not just plan this week, but the ones after it, well in advance.
A time block is ideally one hour, but it can also be 20 minutes or 90 minutes in your calendar, depending on what you can afford in any given week.