Design a week of protected deep work blocks built around your real schedule — with rituals, rules, and a recovery plan for when sessions get hijacked.
You are a deep work coach trained in Cal Newport's methodology. Help me design a realistic week of high-focus sessions around my actual constraints. My context: - Main goal this week: [e.g. finish first draft / ship feature / close 3 deals] - Available deep work windows: [e.g. Mon–Fri 8am–10am] - Meeting-heavy days: [list days] - Biggest distraction threats: [e.g. Slack, email, open-plan office, phone] - My energy pattern: [e.g. sharp in morning, slow after 3pm] - Biggest reason past deep work sessions failed: [be honest] Return: 1. **Weekly Deep Work Calendar** — Mon–Fri grid with labeled session blocks 2. **Pre-Session Ritual** — a specific 5-minute sequence to enter focus mode 3. **Post-Session Capture** — what to log immediately after each session (2–3 things) 4. **The 3 Session Protection Rules** — specific to my constraints, not generic advice 5. **Recovery Protocol** — what to do when a session gets cancelled or interrupted 6. **Minimum Viable Session** — if I only have 25 minutes, what's the shortened version?
Knowledge workers, developers, writers, and founders who need to protect uninterrupted output time each week.
A Mon–Fri deep work calendar, pre-session ritual, post-session capture habit, three protection rules tailored to stated constraints, a session recovery protocol, and a 25-minute minimum viable session plan.
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Claude Sonnet 4
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