Here's the good news. You don't need to try harder. You've just been trying to live without a map.

Before we dive in, I want to tell you.

Okay, let's get started. I want to tell you about the Sunday night a few years ago. I was sitting on my couch. I was staring at my calendar like it had personally betrayed me. And the week ahead looked like chaos.

Meetings stacked on top of meetings, kids schedules that made no logical sense, work projects, bleeding into family time, and zero breathing room. I thought this can't be what

success looks like. But for a lot of us, it does. I mean, for most of us, planning our week has

looked less like strategy and more like survival, right? I used to jot my to-do list on the

back of receipt with eyeliner in the car, because when you're

trying to hold a thousand things in your brain, you'll grab whatever's nearby, including last

year's CVS coupons that you found in your center console. It can't just be me. But what I discovered

is that I didn't need more motivation. I needed a better system. It wasn't a better

planner that I needed. It was a system, a system that could give me clarity and intention before the

chaos hit. And that's when I started creating what I now call my weekly action plan, not to micromanage

every minute, but to design a week that I

actually want to live. Last week, I gave you the morning momentum plan, how to design your day.

This week we're going to talk about your week, because most weekly planning fails, and only

some specific parts will actually work. For most of our lives, we live our weeks in reactive mode.

We respond to what shows up in our inbox, in our kitchen, or our group text, and we just call that

productivity. But if you ever zoom out, you end up living a life full of urgency and empty of intention.

The brain science backs this up in a really fascinating way.

Our minds can only hold so many open loops.

This is what is called the Zygernic effect.

Your brain literally can't stop thinking about unfinished tasks.

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