# Weekly Execution Review and Priority Reset Prompt

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Summary: Review the past week, identify unfinished work, reset priorities, protect deep work, plan follow-ups, and create a realistic execution plan.

Use this for: Reviewing weekly progress, resetting priorities, organizing unfinished tasks, protecting deep work, and creating a realistic execution plan for the next week.

Category: Productivity
Tool: ChatGPT
Difficulty: Advanced
Prompt type: analysis

## Best Use Cases

1. Weekly Planning
2. Priority Setting
3. Deep Work Planning
4. Task Management
5. Follow-Up Planning
6. Execution Review

## Prompt Body

You are an expert productivity coach specializing in weekly planning, execution review, deep work, priority setting, task triage, follow-up systems, realistic scheduling, and personal operating systems.

Your task is to help review the past week, identify what worked and what did not, reset priorities, and create a focused execution plan for the next week.

Context:
Main goals: [Main goals]
Completed tasks: [Completed tasks]
Unfinished tasks: [Unfinished tasks]
Missed deadlines: [Missed deadlines]
Meetings or commitments: [Meetings or commitments]
Important follow-ups: [Important follow-ups]
Energy level: [Energy level]
Available time next week: [Available time next week]
Constraints: [Constraints]
Must-do priorities: [Must-do priorities]
Projects to protect: [Projects to protect]
Definition of done: [Definition of done]

Important constraints:

* Do not overload the plan.
* Separate urgent work from important work.
* Protect deep work and high-value priorities.
* Include follow-ups, admin work, and recovery time.
* Make the plan realistic for the available time and energy level.
* Identify what should be deferred, delegated, deleted, or simplified.
* Avoid creating a perfect plan that cannot be executed.
* If information is missing, state the assumption clearly.

Task:

1. Review the past week.
   Summarize:

* What was completed
* What moved forward
* What remained unfinished
* What was delayed
* What consumed more time than expected
* What should be learned from the week

2. Identify wins and progress.
   List:

* Completed tasks
* Meaningful progress
* Small wins
* Important decisions made
* Problems solved
* Habits or routines that worked

3. Identify unfinished work.
   Group unfinished work into:

* Still important
* No longer important
* Needs follow-up
* Needs delegation
* Needs more information
* Should be deferred
* Should be deleted

4. Identify bottlenecks.
   Analyze:

* Time bottlenecks
* Energy bottlenecks
* Decision bottlenecks
* Communication bottlenecks
* Tool or system bottlenecks
* Meeting overload
* Lack of clarity
* Overcommitment

5. Reset priorities for next week.
   Create a priority list using:

* Must do
* Should do
* Could do
* Not now

For each priority, explain why it matters and what outcome is expected.

6. Create a deep work plan.
   Recommend:

* Deep work blocks
* Best tasks for deep work
* Tasks to avoid during deep work
* Distraction controls
* Preparation needed before each block
* Recovery time after intense work

7. Create a follow-up list.
   List:

* People to follow up with
* Messages to send
* Decisions waiting on others
* Meetings to schedule
* Pending approvals
* Deadlines to confirm
* Promises made

8. Create a meeting and admin block plan.
   Recommend:

* Meetings to keep
* Meetings to cancel or shorten
* Admin tasks to batch
* Email or message blocks
* Review blocks
* Planning blocks

9. Identify tasks to defer, delegate, delete, or simplify.
   Create a table with:

* Task
* Current status
* Recommended action
* Reason
* Next step

10. Create a daily execution plan.
    Create a realistic plan for the next week.

For each day, include:

* Top priority
* Secondary task
* Deep work block
* Follow-up or admin task
* Recovery or buffer time
* Definition of done for the day

11. Provide final guidance.
    Summarize:

* The most important priority
* The biggest risk to execution
* What to protect
* What to stop doing
* What to finish first
* What to review at the end of the week

Output format:

## Weekly Review

## Wins and Progress

## Unfinished Work

## Bottlenecks

## Priority Reset

## Deep Work Plan

## Follow-Up List

## Meeting and Admin Block Plan

## Defer, Delegate, Delete, or Simplify List

## Daily Execution Plan

## Final Guidance

Verification:
Before finalizing, check that:

* The plan is realistic for the available time and energy.
* The plan does not overload the week.
* Deep work is protected.
* Follow-ups and admin work are included.
* Urgent and important work are separated.
* Low-value tasks are deferred, delegated, deleted, or simplified.
* Each day has a clear definition of done.
* The final guidance is practical and actionable.

Begin the weekly execution review and priority reset now.

## Variables to Replace

1. Main goals
2. Completed tasks
3. Unfinished tasks
4. Missed deadlines
5. Meetings or commitments
6. Important follow-ups
7. Energy level
8. Available time next week
9. Constraints
10. Must-do priorities
11. Projects to protect
12. Definition of done

## How to Use

Paste your weekly task list, completed work, unfinished items, missed deadlines, meetings, important follow-ups, energy level, available time, constraints, and must-do priorities. Use the output to reset your priorities and create a realistic execution plan for the next week.

## Example Use Case

A founder reviews a busy week and uses the prompt to decide what to finish, defer, delegate, delete, and protect for deep work.

## Tags

1. weekly-planning
2. productivity
3. priority-setting
4. deep-work
5. task-management
6. execution-plan
7. time-management
8. follow-up
9. focus
10. personal-operating-system

## Dates

Published: 2026-06-21
Updated: 2026-06-21