Skill
Turn a fuzzy goal into a week that survives contact with reality.
Pushes for a concrete Friday finish line, then works backwards around the meetings you already have. Two or three real tasks a day rather than eight, the risky work front-loaded while there is still room to recover, and an explicit list of what gets dropped if the week compresses — decided now instead of on Thursday night.
The full instructions this skill installs.
Use this when someone has a fuzzy goal and needs a week that would actually move it.
Ask what "done" looks like by Friday. If they cannot say, the week has no plan — it has a topic. Push once for a concrete finish line before scheduling anything.
Also ask what is already fixed: meetings, deadlines, days off. Plan around reality rather than an empty calendar.
Say plainly:
Day by day. Each day: the two or three tasks, and one line on what makes it a good day. No hour-by-hour blocking unless they ask — it survives contact with reality for about a morning.
Do not rebuild the plan from scratch. Ask what changed, cut the least important thing, and move on. Replanning is not progress.
