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Back to EpisodesTheme Days: The Weekly Schedule That Ended My Decision Fatigue as a Business Owner
Description
Are you tired from working, or tired from deciding what to work on every single morning? Here's the weekly rhythm I built so I only make the decision once and my calendar makes it for me after that: CEO Mondays, build days, content Thursdays, people Fridays, and weekends that are actually off.
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IN THIS EPISODE
- The specific kind of tired that comes from deciding from a dead stop every day
- Theme days: make the decision once and let your calendar make it after that
- Monday is CEO day: if you don't start the week as the CEO, you spend it as the employee
- Breaking big projects into bite-sized tasks so they leave your head
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays are build days, because building for yourself always gets bumped
- Thursday is content day: podcast, social, and email all go out
- Friday closes loops so nothing dangles into the weekend
- Why the weekend boundary holds the whole system together
- When a kid gets sick: shrink the theme instead of abandoning it
MY SCHEDULER
I match my Dubsado scheduler to my theme days so clients can only book on the right days (affiliate link): https://www.dubsado.com/?c=linds2026
READ MORE
How I plan my business week, from CEO Mondays to Client Fridays: https://www.lindspaulson.com/post/how-i-plan-my-business-week
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ABOUT YOUR HOST
Linds Paulson is the founder of Sunday Ops Co. She helps busy women business owners build simple systems so their business feels easy like Sunday.
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