Build Your Ideal Workweek
Most calendars get built meeting by meeting by whoever asked first. Start over with what matters most to you, and we’ll help you design your ideal work week.
How it works
- Built your calendar around what you won’t trade away.Family dinner, the gym, your Tuesday leadership meeting. Add these items first, and let everything else fit around them.
- A draft, not a lecture.We will build your first draft in seconds, then you can move things around until it feels like your week.
- Take it with you.Add it to your calendar, print it, and hand your assistant the rules behind it.
Start with your name
Your finished week and the files land in your inbox.
Enter a work email so we can send your week.
Set up your week
Defaults come from the Ideal Workweek template. Add or subtract time with the controls.
Picked from your browser. Used for the calendar file.
Identify your Big Rocks
The non-negotiables. They go in first and anchor everything else: standing meetings, appointments, travel time, and your top personal priorities. Lock a rock to an exact time only when it truly is fixed.
Add your Pebbles
Essential work that needs dedicated time but has some flexibility. High-focus pebbles land in your peak-energy hours.
Fill the cracks with Sand
Smaller, often reactive tasks. They fill what’s left without disturbing higher-priority work.
Your first draft
Your Ideal Workweek
Drag blocks to move them, pull the bottom edge to resize, click one to edit. Tray items can be dragged in, or tapped and then placed.
Tray
Badge = Rock / Pebble / Sand · 🔒 fixed time
Week grid
Review
Optimize
Three changes with an Apply button each, based on your grid and the method’s rules.
Keep it
Now have someone protect it.
An Ideal Workweek only works when someone guards the calendar. A BELAY Executive Assistant schedules to your rules, says no on your behalf, and keeps your rocks where you put them.
Talk to BELAYBuilding your draft
Rocks first. Then pebbles. Then sand.