BLP Episode #190: The Ideal Week

March 18, 2024

Today’s episode is devoted to the Ideal Week exercise, a practice where you put your ideal week onto paper (or screen) using an hourly format. This can be done on paper using a template or an old vertical weekly planner, or on screen via an electronic calendar or even by writing on a pdf using an app.

I discuss nuances of this exercise, components I include, and variations on the idea (Ideal Month, anyone?).

A free ideal week template was included in the March newsletter – if you’d like a copy, please leave a comment (your email will be visible to me and I can then send it to you).

Reference: Recent blog post on this topic as well, and here’s a much older version (2019) I did in excel!

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Sarah Hart-Unger

mother of 3 // MD // south floridian // ESFJ // upholder. into: planners, great food, running, reading, writing, mornings, podcasting, and coffee.

19 Comments

Reply Jen March 18, 2024 at 11:30 am

I’d love a copy of the ideal week template. Thanks!

Reply Sarah Hart-Unger March 18, 2024 at 12:55 pm
sent!

Reply Indhu March 18, 2024 at 12:38 pm

I’d love a copy of the ideal template. Thank you

Reply Sarah Hart-Unger March 18, 2024 at 12:55 pm
sent 🙂

Reply Gina March 19, 2024 at 12:55 pm

I’d love a copy. Thanks!

Reply Sarah Hart-Unger March 20, 2024 at 3:40 pm
sending!

Reply ARC March 19, 2024 at 5:49 pm

Ooh! I did this a year ago when I was contemplating quitting my job and printed out a schedule and posted it at my desk so I could check myself on whether I was doing my “ideal” at the time, including making time for workouts, journaling etc. It’s time for me to revisit now that I’m off for a while. It was SUCH a useful exercise to figure out how to make all the pieces fit, AND make sure I included certain things to make life better each day instead of going through the daily schedule on autopilot.