# 🚀 Project: Build Your Two-Week Deep Work Routine

By Better Wise

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## 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:

```mermaid
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


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## Contents

Part of [🎯 Deep Work: Build Focus in a World Full of Distractions](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions.md)

- **🧠 Attention Foundations and a Distraction-Resistant Setup**
  - [🔍 Sustained Attention and Attention Residue](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/sustained-attention-and-attention-residue.md)
  - [🏠 Designing a Distraction-Resistant Environment](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/designing-a-distraction-resistant-environment.md) (sign-in required)
  - [🔕 Notification Rules and AI-Free Thinking Periods](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/notification-rules-and-ai-free-thinking-periods.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Attention Foundations](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/checkpoint-attention-foundations.md)
- **⏱️ Deep Work Routines, Focus Sessions, and Measurable Experiments**
  - [🗓️ Time Blocking and Focus Session Design](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/time-blocking-and-focus-session-design.md)
  - [🌿 Breaks, Recovery, and Attention Hygiene](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/breaks-recovery-and-attention-hygiene.md)
  - [📓 Focus Journal and Attention Experiments](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/focus-journal-and-attention-experiments.md)
  - [🚀 Project: Build Your Two-Week Deep Work Routine](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/project-two-week-deep-work-routine.md) (premium content) — this lesson
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Deep Work Routines and Experiments](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/checkpoint-deep-work-routines-and-experiments.md) (premium content)
- [Course cheatsheet](https://everwise.study/courses/deep-work-build-focus-in-a-world-full-of-distractions/cheatsheet.md) (premium content)