We are struggling to find time to prepare for our session days. How should our leadership team structure our working weeks to ensure we are actually ready to contribute when we meet with you?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If you are arriving at our quarterly sessions exhausted and unprepared, you are running your business, but the business is also running you. To fix this, you must deliberately redesign your working weeks using a clear structure of preparation days, contribution days, and perspective days.

Preparation days are dedicated to the internal work of running the business, handling administrative tasks, and organizing your thoughts. This is when you review your metrics, track your Rock progress, and prepare your pre-work before our sessions. Without dedicated prep days, you will always feel behind.

Contribution days are for deep, impactful work, including our full-day quarterly sessions and your weekly Level 10 Meeting™. These days require your absolute focus and high cognitive energy. You must protect these days from tactical interruptions so you can fully commit to strategic planning.

Finally, perspective days are your weekends and personal time. You must completely unplug from the business to allow your brain a strategic pause. This downtime is essential for recovery. If you do not rest, you will suffer from chronic cognitive overload, and you will not have the mental stamina required to make critical decisions during our sessions.