What is a perfect week? For a work week, a perfect week is when you have accomplished all the things that you want to do in a week - and then some more! That’s often a mix of two things, like two broad categories: One bucket contains just the tactical things, like to-dos, checking emails, responding to people, basically completing pending items. This is across a variety of communication channels: emails, Slack messages, your own notes, your own personal to-dos, so stuff on a variety of different fronts.

The second part is more strategic. What is stuff that you want to change? What is stuff that you want to think about for the long term. What do you want to create over time?

So, there’s manager time and then there’s creator time¹. A perfect week is when you’ve completed all of your managerial work, you have found time for your creator work, and you have given yourself permission to do some random fun stuff.

I like how in yesterday’s Notion keynote from September², they were showing the calendar over and over again. One of the terms they used is that Notion allows you to produce your busy work and do your life’s work. I find that pretty motivating when you phrase it that way: what is your life’s work? How do you allocate time every day for your life’s work? It’s pretty inspiring and motivating.

From a leader standpoint, you have a bunch of tactical work, you have strategic work, and then you have your life’s work, which may or may not overlap with the previous two buckets. So, tactical work, strategic work, and life’s work. A perfect week is when you’ve found time for each of these three buckets. You’ve also found time for your family and taken care of your health. Now, that’s a perfect week!