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Weekly load sheet
Everything I am committed to this week
honest hours, including the things nobody countsFour ways to renegotiate · all four hand the decision upward with the information attached
Yes, and here is what moves. Name the thing that slips and let them choose.
Yes, at a different depth. Rough by Thursday or finished the week after.
Yes, if this is the priority. Not a refusal, a clarification.
Not me, and here is who. Redirecting is not declining.
Plan to about eighty percent of the hours you actually have. The remaining twenty is not spare; it is what absorbs the thing nobody planned for. Meetings are consumed hours, so count them. Show the list rather than describing the feeling: forty-six hours of committed work in a thirty-eight hour week is a fact, and it moves the conversation from your resilience to the business's priorities.
The totals update as you type, including the eighty percent planning band and how far past it you are. Meetings and recurring work sit at the bottom of the list because they are the hours nobody counts. Saves in this browser only.
Prefer paper? Download the blank sheet as a PDF. The thinking behind it is in The Load.
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