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Productivity prompts

Planning, prioritisation, the week ahead. Systems that survive contact with Tuesday.

• work Generate a Weekly Review Template You Would Actually Use

  Get a weekly review template built around your actual time and situation rather than the ideal version.

• self Plan a Quarter Focused on One Area of Your Life

  Build a focused three-month plan for one area of your life rather than moving everything forward slowly.

• self Decide Which of Your Current Commitments to Drop

  Audit what you are committed to and decide which one to drop to stop spreading yourself too thin.

• self Summarise Your Ideal Day and Use It to Audit Your Schedule

  Compare your ideal day to your actual day and find three changes worth making.

• self Critique Your Daily Routine Against Your Energy Levels

  Find out where your daily routine is working against your actual energy.

• life Critique How You Actually Spend Your Leisure Time Against What You Want

  Find out why you keep spending your free time on the default rather than what you actually want.

• self Write a Personal Operating Manual for How You Work Best

  Write the document that tells people how to work with you before they have to guess.

• life Plan the Practical Steps Around a Decision You Have Already Made

  Stop planning to start and get the first three practical steps down for a decision you have already made.

• self Plan a Habit Change That Has Already Failed Once

  Build a habit plan that starts with why the last attempt failed and addresses it specifically.

• self Reframe Why You Keep Procrastinating on Something Important

  Find out what the procrastination is actually protecting against and what to do with that information.

• work Reframe a Long To-Do List as a Priority Decision

  Sort an overwhelming to-do list into what actually matters this week and what does not.

• play Reframe Play as a Productivity Tool for Blocked Thinking

  Treat play as a tool for unlocking thinking you cannot reach by working harder.

• self Critique Your Daily Routine for What It Is Actually Optimising For

  Find out what your daily routine is actually designed for versus what you think it is for.

• learn Explain How to Build a Reading Habit That Sticks

  Build a reading habit that lasts by fixing the conditions rather than relying on motivation.

• play Generate a Weekly Activity Schedule That You Will Actually Stick To

  Get a weekly activity schedule built around your actual life, not your ideal one.

• creative Reframe What Productivity Means During a Creative or Intellectual Project

  Find a measure of progress that fits the actual work rather than the number of outputs.

• life Reframe Something You Have Been Putting Off for Months

  Work out why you keep not doing it and what to do about that.

• self Reframe the Pressure to Be More Productive in Your Personal Time

  Stop measuring your time off by whether it was productive and find a different metric.

• work Plan a Productive Week When You Have Low Energy

  Plan a week that works with low energy rather than pretending it is not there.

• self Critique the Assumptions Behind a Goal You Have Set for Yourself

  Check whether the goal you are pursuing is based on assumptions that will actually hold.

• work Plan a Week When You Have More on Than You Can Actually Do

  Choose what actually gets done this week rather than hoping everything fits.

• work Compare Two Ways of Managing Your Time to Find Which Suits You

  Find out which time management approach fits your actual working style rather than your ideal one.

• self Explain Why You Keep Procrastinating on One Specific Task

  Find out which kind of procrastination is running and why your usual tricks are not working.

• life Summarise the Year Before You Plan the Next One

  Get an honest summary of your year before you start planning the next one.

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