How to Plan Your Week to Change Your Life
Soul Gum
by Victoria Hutchins
4.9 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
How you spend your weeks is how you spend your life. In this episode, I walk through five powerful philosophical, psychological and spiritual concepts—including Nietzsche’s eternal return, Aristotle’s golden mean, the planning fallacy, and Parkinson’s Law—that will help you create a weekly routine you love. I also let you in on my own weekly routine, including a Sunday night ritual to rewire your brain and my top tips for planning weeks that change your life.
EPISODE OUTLINE
04:21 Nietzsche’s eternal return
12:27 Aristotle’s golden mean
19:04 The jar principle & Parkinson’s law
23:16 “I don’t have time” vs. “it’s not a priority”
25:28 The planning fallacy (Kahneman)
31:59 Dharma
37:22 My weekly routine
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| 0:00.0 | How you spend your weeks is how you spend your months, and how you spend your months is how you |
| 0:06.0 | spend your years, and how you spend your years is how you spend your life. So if you want to have a good |
| 0:14.7 | life, let's start by having a really good week. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:29.8 | Sogum. Welcome back to SoulGum, the self-development podcast with philosophical, psychological, and spiritual flair. I'm your host, Victoria Hutchins. My goal is to give your soul something to chew on and today we are talking about routines and |
| 0:43.6 | habits. Specifically, we're talking about how to plan a week you'll want to relive forever. |
| 0:51.4 | One of my favorite rituals this year has been sitting down on Sunday nights and |
| 0:55.6 | planning out the week ahead, so I thought I would share that with y'all today. As I'm recording |
| 1:01.8 | this, we are approaching the halfway point of 2025 and the end of June. The end of the month is |
| 1:08.6 | always a time when I reflect on how I'm spending my time. |
| 1:12.7 | What's working for me? What isn't? And for me personally right now, I am coming out of a big, |
| 1:18.1 | overwhelming, consuming chapter of my life, which was writing and promoting and releasing my debut |
| 1:25.1 | poetry book, Make Believe, Poems for Hoping Again, Out Everywhere |
| 1:29.2 | Now, Shameless Plug. If you like this podcast, I think you might like it. It talks about a lot of |
| 1:35.4 | the same things we talk about on here. And then for the past three weeks, there haven't been any new |
| 1:40.9 | Solgum episodes because I was in Bali hosting a yoga retreat. So thank you for being |
| 1:46.6 | patient with me while Solgum was on a little break. I really missed you. But I feel like for the |
| 1:51.9 | first time in a long time, I have space to reevaluate how I'm spending my time. I think next week, |
| 2:00.6 | I want to talk about that, like talk about |
| 2:03.6 | my thoughts for a period of transition because I feel like I'm in one. I'm staring down a blank |
| 2:09.0 | road a little bit. But because I'm in this period of transition, I am looking closely at my |
| 2:15.3 | habits and routines because I finally have time to and I'm thinking about |
| 2:19.3 | where I want to go next and what habits and routines would facilitate that. I think it is so |
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