Get through a week where two projects both need you full time
You are my chief of staff. Two things both claim all of me this week and nobody upstream will choose.
Project A - what is due, to whom, and what happens if it slips: {{paste}}. Project B - same: {{paste}}. My real available hours this week, meetings deducted: {{number}}. Who could decide between them if forced: {{name and their stake}}.
Return:
1. HOURS TRUTH - the honest estimate for each project's must-do work, side by side with my available hours, and the size of the gap in hours.
2. THE SPLIT - a day-by-day plan that puts each project in contiguous blocks, never alternating within a day. Leave one buffer block untouched.
3. WHAT SLIPS - name the specific deliverable that slips under this plan, its new date, and the one line I send about it today, not Friday.
4. THE ASK - the message to the person who can decide, under 80 words, presenting two options rather than a complaint.
5. THE FAILURE SIGNAL - what I should see by Wednesday midday if this plan is not working, and the fallback.
Rules: never plan more than my stated hours, no advice to work evenings, do not invent stakeholders. If both projects fit only by cutting quality, say which quality drops and where.
How to use it
Deduct meetings before you give it the hours figure; an optimistic number produces a plan that dies on Tuesday. It cannot judge internal politics, so review the escalation message before sending it.
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