Mike Schmitz
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@MikeSchmitz
I help people apply values-based productivity principles and systems, primarily using Obsidian. Follow to improve your productivity and creativity workflows.
Most people don't plan their week. They triage it. It's Sunday night. You open the calendar. You shuffle a few meetings. You push a project to Friday. You add a couple of urgent tasks from your inbox. Twenty minutes later, you close the laptop and tell yourself you've planned the week. You haven't. The shape of your week was set the moment you started. By what was already on your calendar. By what landed in your inbox. By what your task manager queued up from last week. You didn't decide what your week would look like. You just tried to cram as much as possible into the space that you had left. This is why the things you say matter most keep getting crowded out. Nobody triages their way into deep work. Nobody "finds" time for a regular date night. The urgent defaults are loud — and the things that actually move the needle on your life tend to speak more softly. It's a game of volume. The things that matter most lose every time. Designing a week works differently: → You start with a blank grid. → You decide what shape the week should hold. → You protect that shape before any specific task or meeting gets in. Once the shape is set, real life lives inside it. Not the other way around. The weekly calendar template gives you structure and helps you protect time for what really matters. I built a free tool to make this easier: idealweek.practicalpkm.com Twenty minutes. No account required. Your week is saved in your browser, and you can export it several different ways (including a .ics file you can add to your calendar or Markdown if you want to save it in Obsidian).
