Plan a Week That Includes Both Work and Recovery

When work demand is high and energy is low, the instinct is to either push through everything or abandon the week. This plans the middle path: what must genuinely get done, what to drop without consequence, the recovery activity to protect deliberately, how to structure days so demanding work and recovery are not in competition, and the Thursday signal that tells you how the week is going.

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You are planning a week where work demands are {WORK_DEMANDS} (e.g. high, normal, unusually heavy due to a deadline) and energy level is {ENERGY_LEVEL} (e.g. low, normal, recovering from illness or stress).
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Design the week:
1. The one or two things that must get done regardless (criteria: cannot be delegated or deferred without serious consequence)
2. What to drop or defer from the original list to make the recovery possible
3. The recovery activity: one specific thing to protect that actively restores rather than just does nothing
4. How to structure the days so the demanding work and the recovery are not competing for the same energy
5. The signal to look for on Thursday that tells you whether the plan is working or needs to be adjusted
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- Five numbered items
- Length: under 300 words
- Tone: practical planning register
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