Project: Build Your Two-Week Deep Work Routine
The Two-Week Routine You Are About to Build
In the last lesson you set up a focus journal and learned to phrase an attention experiment. This project turns those pieces into one written artifact: a two-week deep work routine you can actually run on a normal week, with a normal job, and a normal amount of laundry.
A routine that lives only in your head collapses on the first busy Wednesday. A routine on one page survives, because you can see it, follow it, and test it. Over two weeks you get something a single day cannot give you: a baseline, a change, and a comparison.
Here is the arc:
flowchart TD
A["📝<br/>Write routine"] --> B["📊<br/>Week 1 baseline"]
B --> C["🔍<br/>Midpoint review"]
C --> D["🔧<br/>Week 2 one change"]
D --> E["⚖️<br/>Compare and decide"]
What the Routine Must Contain
Your routine needs five parts. Keep each part small enough to fit on one page.
| Part | Minimum standard |
|---|---|
| Environment rules | 3 to 5 specific rules, such as phone in a drawer, one browser window, AI assistant closed during the first block |
| Time blocks | 2 to 3 deep blocks per day, 60 to 90 minutes each, every block with one named output |
| Break plan | A 5 to 15 minute break between blocks with movement and no feeds, plus one longer midday break |
| Journal template | A fixed set of fields you fill in after every block |
| Measurable experiment | One variable, one metric, a Week 1 baseline value, a prediction, and a review date |
Two rules keep the experiment honest. Week 1 is your _____, and in Week 2 you change exactly one variable _____. Every block names one _____ and ends with a _____ note, which parks attention residue before the next block starts.
A sample day might look like this:
In this lesson
- Building It in Five Short Sittings
- How You Will Know It Is Done
- Quick Review Deck
- Ready to Run
About this course
Part of Deep Work: Build Focus in a World Full of Distractions — Develop the ability to concentrate on demanding work without constantly checking notifications or asking AI for the next step. Finish with a personalized deep-work routine, a distraction audit, and a method for improving your focus.
- Level
- Beginner
- Goal
- Build a project
- Language
- English
- Focus
- Understanding attention residue and task switching Designing distraction-resistant work environments Building realistic deep-work routines Working independently before consulting AI Tracking focus quality and adjusting habits
- Practice
- Exercises + capstone project
- Time
- ~4.4h
- Voice
- A calm productivity coach who experiments with distraction-free work alongside learners, using realistic schedules and small behavioral changes instead of motivational hype.
- Not covered
- Clinical diagnosis of attention disorders, Advanced neuroscience, Complex project-management software, Automated AI productivity agents
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