Mar 12 • 💬DISCUSSION
How to make the best plan each week? (Do you need one?)
Hey everyone! 👋
Let’s continue this week’s theme: planning.
At first glance, planning looks simple.But is it really?
The answer is no.
A good plan can make your week much easier and actually move you forward. But the mistake I see most often is this: people overload their week with ideas and actions… and end up completing only 1 or 2 things.
And honestly, I’m guilty of this too.
Just last week, I had so many ideas that I didn’t even know where to start.
Between:
• 💰 Monetization
• 📈 Newsletter growth
• 💬 Newsletter engagement
• ⚙️ Automations
• 🧰 Tools and systems
…I felt completely stuck.
Everything felt useful.But not everything felt urgent.
And that’s the real challenge:
👉 How do you prioritize the right actions with the time you actually have?
Here’s the system I use.
🧠 1. Know your real time
First, I create a complete schedule of my day.
I map out:
- My classes
- My free time
- The small time blocks between activities
This is important because you need to know how much work can realistically fit into your day.
Most people plan for 8–10 hours of work, when they actually only have 2–3 real hours.
🎯 2. Define big goals and small goals
Next, I separate my goals into two levels.
Big goal (3 months)The main outcome you want to achieve.
Small goals (weekly)The milestones that move you toward the big goal.
The important thing here is that we don’t plan the dream, we plan the actions.
📋 3. List the actions behind each goal
Now I write down every action that contributes to those goals.
Even if you already know what works, you still need to plan and reflect.
Listing actions helps you see which actions actually create which results.
⚡ 4. Prioritize the actions
Once everything is listed, I rank them by urgency.
🔴 Very urgentActions you must do every day
🟠 Urgent but manageableActions you do 3 times per week
🟡 Useful but not urgentActions you do once per week
⚪ Not urgent right nowGood ideas, but not important at your current stage
This step alone removes a lot of overwhelm.
Example of my current plan
Big goal:
Monetize my newsletter and build an engaged Skool community that helps people grow their newsletters too.
Weekly small goals:
📈 Grow my newsletter to 2K subscribers→ around 75 subscribers per week
💬 Maintain engagement→ 25 Notes→ 1 post→ 1 weekly analysis→ 1 live→ chat threads
🎁 Give value to the audience→ 1 free product or challenge per week
🤝 Help members in Skool reach their goals→ 1 weekly group call→ 7 posts→ Q&A and guidance
💰 Build monetization systems→ create low-ticket products→ add 5 people per week to the waiting list
These become my weekly milestones.
A mistake I almost made
I also wanted to:
- Learn Kit
- Build automations
- Test new tools like Orel
All of these are useful.
But right now they are not urgent and don’t fit my available time.
So they stay outside the plan.
Some of my main actions are:
• 💬 Comment on posts
• 📝 Publish Notes
• 📩 Send DMs
• 🤝 3 partner or guest posts
• 🔗 3 new recommendations
• ✍️ Create posts and chat threads
Then I:
1️⃣ Tag each action by priority (daily / 3x per week / weekly)
2️⃣ Place them inside my schedule
3️⃣ Leave a few time blocks for social time and relaxation
Because a plan that ignores life usually doesn’t last.
Hope this helps!
What would your weekly plan look like? 👇
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