Category Career Clarity and Vision

How to Plan Your Work Week for Maximum Focus

If you’re a PhD, Postdoc, or professor, your calendar probably looks like a chaotic patchwork of meetings, emails, and last-minute requests. The result? Constant busyness, but little real progress on the projects that matter for your career.

The problem isn’t a lack of work ethic — it’s a lack of deliberate planning. Without a clear structure, you’ll always default to other people’s priorities.

The solution: a two-phase planning system that helps you design your week for maximum focus and defend that plan against interruptions.