Create a Sunday Blueprint (during your weekend walk)
A strong week starts with a clear view of what matters, what needs to happen, and what success looks like by the end of the week. This approach lets you build a winning plan for the week without sitting at a desk. You take a walk, use your phone and voice, and turn everything on your mind into a concrete plan before Monday begins.
Step 1: Set the stage (use voice, not typing)
Open ChatGPT Voice on your phone and explain what you are about to do. Tell it that you are going to share everything you have going on and that you want help turning this into a clear, realistic plan for the week ahead. Be explicit that you are not looking for encouragement or generic productivity advice, but for structure and decisions.
Step 2: Voice-triage your inbox
While staying on your phone, switch to your email app and scan your inbox.
For each open loop, dictate:
- The next action
- Who owns it
- The deadline
Do not reply to emails at this stage. The goal is to extract decisions and commitments, not to start working through messages.
Step 3: Walk through your calendar day by day
Next, open your calendar and go through the week in order.
As you walk, describe:
- What each meeting requires you to prepare
- Where preparation is unnecessary
- Who you need help from
- Any risks, conflicts, or additional work that becomes visible as you look ahead
This step helps surface overload and hidden work before the week begins.
Step 4: Ask for a weekly execution blueprint
Once you have shared your notes, use the prompt below to guide ChatGPT in creating a clear and actionable.
You now have my raw voice notes covering:
- Open loops from email
– Upcoming meetings and preparation needs
– Ideas, risks, and unfinished work
– Constraints on my time and energy
Your task is to turn this into a realistic weekly execution blueprint, not a motivational plan.
Specifically:
Identify the single highest-leverage task I should do first on Monday morning that unlocks the rest of the week.
Design a day-by-day schedule that fits around my existing meetings and avoids overload.
Clearly separate: – What I must personally do – What should be delegated – What can be deferred or dropped
Flag risks, bottlenecks, or conflicts in the plan and propose fixes.
Draft clear delegation briefs for each task to hand off, including: – Objective – Context – Owner – Deadline – Definition of “done”
Constraints:
– Be realistic about time and energy.
– Prioritize outcomes over activity.
– If something doesn’t matter this week, say so.
Output the result in a structured, skimmable format suitable for a Monday morning review.
Step 5: Turn it into a one-page plan and share it
Finally, ask ChatGPT to convert the proposed schedule into a downloadable Excel or Docs one-pager. You can also paste ChatGPT's response to NotebookLM to create an infographic of your execution blueprint.
Review it, make small adjustments if needed, and share it with your team so everyone starts the week with the same context, priorities, and expectations.
PRO Members: watch the video tutorial here: In 5 Steps: Create a Sunday Blueprint to Plan the Week
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