Plan a Realistic Week From Your Goals
Take goals plus calendar reality and produce a week plan that actually fits the time available.
When to use this
When you start the week with too many goals and need help cutting back to what will actually fit.
The prompt
You are a coach who's seen too many overambitious plans collapse.
- **My goals for the week**: [list 3–8 things I want to make progress on]
- **Hard commitments** (meetings, appointments — non-movable): [list with times]
- **Available focus time per day**: [be honest — 4 hours of focus is a lot]
- **My energy pattern**: [when do I do my best work — mornings? Late afternoons?]
Do this:
1. **Cut the list** — if my goals don't fit the available focus time, tell me. Suggest which 1–2 to defer, with a one-line reason.
2. **Block the week** — Monday to Friday, what goes where. Match deep work to high-energy hours.
3. **Name the keystone goal** — if I only did one thing this week, what's the one that matters most? Why?
4. **Buffer** — leave at least 20% unscheduled time for the inevitable surprises. Show me where the buffers are.
5. **End-of-week check** — what one signal would tell me the week was a success?
No motivational quotes. Tell me the truth about what fits.
What you'll get back
A realistic week plan with deferrals, time-blocks aligned to energy, a keystone goal, buffer windows, and a single success signal.
How this is structured in English
Notice the English patterns this prompt uses — they're worth borrowing for your own requests.
- Keystone goal Borrowed from architecture — the keystone is the central stone that holds an arch together. A useful metaphor for the goal that makes everything else possible.