Four-day work week

Try working on your day-to-day tasks for the first four days of a week. Our productivity naturally declines towards the end of a week, so focus on doing your actual work from Monday to Thursday. While you may be working less, you’ll be working better.

If you have urgent tasks that cannot wait and need to be taken care of on Friday, make sure to address them at the beginning of your day.

Pro-tip: Try to avoid unnecessary meetings and calls during your four-day workweek, and respect your colleagues’ precious Deep Work time.

Start your Mighty Friday by performing the most important thing to do on this unique day: a thorough Weekly Review.

A Weekly Review will help you review your past week and plan your work for the following week. When you start back on Monday, you’ll know exactly what you’re supposed to do. This way, you’ll prevent stress buildup and have a more productive workweek!

Pro-tip: To make Fridays unique, spend them in a different place or context – even just for the time when you’ll be doing your Weekly Review.
A coffee shop, a couch, a different room – the choice is yours!

Once you review your week and plan your tasks for the upcoming one, you can choose whatever you want to do with your spare time. Here are some examples:
→ read articles or watch videos that are related to your work
→ take classes or courses
→ clean up or rearrange your physical and virtual workspace
→ focus on a hobby that boosts your creativity and recharges your batteries
→ spend time to reconnect with your teammates

Treat it as an opportunity for self-development. It’s all about becoming a better version of yourself.

Pro-tip: Fridays can also be used to find and learn new tools that will improve your work, such as Nozbe. It’s packed with features that will help you and your team become even more productive!

→ Go through the document tray on your desk, your email inboxes, downloaded files, and your single tasks in Nozbe.
→ Get rid of docs, emails, and tasks that are no longer necessary.
→ Process what’s left by digitizing paper documents, forwarding emails to Nozbe to make them actionable, or moving single tasks to appropriate projects.

→ Reconnect with your goals – why you want to achieve them?
→ Review your goals and track their progress.
→ Check if you’ve managed to move your goals forward over the last week.
→ Think of ways to improve the goals’ progress over the course of the next week, and create appropriate tasks.
→ Review your work statistics: number of clients, finances, ad stats, etc.
→ Review your personal statistics – sports, health, books read, etc.

→ Go through your calendar, journal, and the “Completed tasks” view.
→ See the tasks that you’ve completed last week.
→ Check to see if there are any tasks that you planned for the past week but haven’t been able to finish. Reschedule them if necessary.
→ Add new tasks and comments based on what you’ve learned.

→ Decide which tasks should be done within the next week. Add due dates and reminders so that you don’t forget about them.
→ Add all the necessary meetings, appointments, and calls to your calendar.
→ See if there are any important events coming (birthdays, anniversaries, holidays) and prepare for them.
→ If needed, schedule time-off, vacations, and sabbaticals.

→ Review each project. Decide whether it’s still necessary, if it should be completed, or if it can be combined with another project.
→ In each project, go through each task. Check if it’s still relevant and if the due date is realistic. See whether it requires updating, and add all the necessary info.
→ See whether there are tasks that you can delegate to someone else.
→ Complete the unnecessary tasks.
→ If an important task delegated to one of your colleagues seems to have been forgotten, @mention them and ask them about the status.