A 20-minute ritual that stops Monday from ambushing you: close last week's open loops, choose three anchors for the week ahead, and pre-decide the defaults that usually eat you alive.
Close loops before making plans. Unfinished business is cognitive rent — every open loop quietly drains focus. Sweep them into one list first; decide what actually carries forward.
Three anchors, not thirty tasks. A week with three anchored outcomes is a good week. Everything else is supporting cast.
Pre-decide the defaults. ADHD brains struggle most with in-the-moment choices. Decide once, here, when nothing is urgent — then the week just executes the decision.
Week of: ______________________ · Ritual done on: ________
Loose ends, unanswered messages, half-finished things, promises made. Park them all here — no filtering yet.
Dropping is a decision, not a failure. A dropped loop costs nothing; an undecided one costs focus all week.
If these three happen by Friday, the week wins — regardless of what else burns.
Ten minutes on something only Future-You benefits from — a backup, an appointment booked, one drawer. Small deposits compound.
Sunday or Monday morning — 20 minutes with coffee. One page per week.
Run each week's first anchor through the free Weekly Planner, break anchors into steps with Task Breakdown, and keep mornings honest with the printable Timeboxing Planner. When a day goes sideways anyway, reach for the Daily Reset.