{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/plan-the-week-as-goals-steps-and-fallback-not-a-longer-to-do-list",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0933",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Plan the week as goals, steps and fallback—not a longer to-do list",
  "summary": "Planning becomes useful when it changes what happens after the first surprise.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "A field experiment on weekly planning combined goal setting, work-step planning and alternative plans and found fewer unfinished tasks, less rumination and greater cognitive flexibility. Build the week around a few outcomes, the next concrete steps and at least one fallback for likely disruption.",
  "limits": [
    "The field experiment does not prove this exact template is optimal; keep the plan proportional to the work."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-execution-rhythm"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-040C545D3A05031A"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A weekly planning field experiment found fewer unfinished tasks and rumination and greater cognitive flexibility under a structured planning intervention.",
      "source_id": "RS-040C545D3A05031A",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The field experiment does not prove this exact template is optimal; keep the plan proportional to the work.",
      "locator": "See source record"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Monday planning is mostly a dump of tasks with no sequence or alternative when the week changes."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The field experiment does not prove this exact template is optimal; keep the plan proportional to the work."
  ],
  "example": "Goal: finish data reconciliation. First step: run source comparison Monday. If source file is late, validate target extracts and prepare the exception logic.",
  "check": "The plan tells you what to do when the original sequence breaks.",
  "steps": [
    "The plan tells you what to do when the original sequence breaks."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-040C545D3A05031A",
      "title": "A field experiment on the effects of weekly planning behaviour on work engagement, unfinished tasks, rumination, and cognitive flexibility",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38515981/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-86F22D8037A34580",
      "title": "Turn goals into work that finishes and stays finished after hours",
      "url": "/collections/turn-goals-into-work-that-finishes-and-stays-finished-after-hours"
    }
  ]
}