Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

I came to conclusion many years ago that in order for a planning routine to have staying power for me it had to be:<p>1. Real simple 2. Require minimal effort<p>If it fails both of those criteria, chances are you won&#x27;t stick with it for too long. The planning itself becomes something you have to plan into your schedule, for example from the post:<p>&quot;The bulk of my weekly planning takes place on Sunday evening.&quot;<p>Sorry but that&#x27;s not going to work for me.

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I&#x27;d just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning.<p>If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn&#x27;t, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused to avoid &quot;fake work&quot; like meetings, emails, etc.<p>I eventually coded it up into a simple tool for myself that I still use every day. I haven&#x27;t focused on marketing so I&#x27;m honestly the only user, but I&#x27;d love if the folks here could check it out and tell me what you think - <a href="http://three.do" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;three.do</a>

- I spend a few minutes before bed reading&#x2F;thinking about the thing I&#x27;m going to do the next morning.<p>- The sooner I start hacking after waking up in the morning the better.<p>- I wake up an hour earlier than necessary and hack from a coffee shop (with a press pot) before my commute starts.<p>- I budget the time during my commute (train) in 5-10 minute goal-oriented intervals.<p>- I listen to Bach piano contrapunctus if the ambient noise gets distracting. I find it hard to get enter the zone quickly with a hiphop mix or any kind of hipster music.

Kudos to everybody who can follow such a detailed plan. I would probably not even finish to write one down.

Nice picture - where&#x27;s the content? Comes up blank.

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work.<p>I&#x27;m already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation.<p>Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.