Your calendar is running the company. Every email, fire and quick question is derailing the work that grows your business.
What a blown-up week costs a CEO.
I'm Demir Bentley. I run a seven-figure company, and I have ADHD. I can lose myself inside a day so easily it feels like amnesia. Maybe your week looks like this.
You sit down on Sunday and build a good plan. Monday still looks fine. Tuesday a client needs you and someone has a quick question. By Wednesday a small emergency has taken the morning, and the plan's gone.
Then it's Friday. You've been busy all week, and the project that grows your business still hasn't moved.
My plans blow up most weeks too. What changed is when I decide. Every Friday I take 30 minutes, look at the whole picture and pick the one thing that has to move next week. On Tuesday I don't need discipline. I reroute to that one thing instead of starting from scratch.
Carey and I have taught this plan to more than 100,000 people. It's the center of our book, and the masterclass walks you through it.
What is Lifehack Method?
Lifehack Method is Demir and Carey Bentley's company. For 11 years they've taught one weekly ritual, the Winning The Week Method®, to more than 100,000 professionals, including teams at Google, Meta, Uber and Microsoft. It's the method in their #1 WSJ bestseller.
- Who it's for
- Owners and CEOs who carry the whole business, from one-person firms to companies with dozens of staff.
- How it works
- The free masterclass teaches the whole method, and you can run it on your own. Miss a Friday and you plan the next one. Members who want someone holding them to Friday join Lifehack Tribe, our coaching membership, with coaches and live Friday planning sessions. We cover it, price included, at the end.
Who's teaching.
Worked 80-hour weeks on Wall Street until a stress illness put him in the hospital, then rebuilt how he works around this plan. He has coached teams and executives at Google, Meta, Uber and Microsoft.
Co-author of Winning the Week. Clients have asked for years for "more Carey."
What's in the masterclass.
The 30-minute Friday ritual, step by step, on demand. Here's what you'll see, in order.
- Why plans fade by week three, and what this one does differently.
- How I went from 80-hour weeks on Wall Street to 40.
- Why the bar keeps rising for everyone, and why your judgment matters more now.
- The five steps, one at a time.
- Deciding what won't get done this week.
- Learn a lesson"If you could do last week over, what's the one thing you'd do differently?"
- Choose your win"What can I do this week that makes next week easier?"
- Interrogate the calendarWhat's already spoken for in the next 14 days, and where are the landmines?
- Triage the to-do list"Some small fires will need to burn."
- Calendarize"A task without a time slot is a wish."
Try step 2 before Friday: write one answer and put it first on Monday morning.
The same Tuesday, two ways.
Decided Monday morning
- Your inbox sets the agenda by 8:15.
- A client fire takes the morning.
- The big project moves to next week again.
- You catch up at 9pm.
Decided on Friday
- Your one priority is on the calendar before anyone books you.
- A fire hits, and you reroute to the priority.
- You already know what waits.
- You close the laptop knowing what moved.
Here's what you walk away with.
One plan you run every Friday. Here's what a CEO's could look like.
My Friday plan
1. Learn a lesson
Three hiring calls waited on me
2. Choose your win
Sign off the Q1 pricing change
3. Interrogate the calendar
Board update on the 21st, prep Mon
4. Triage the to-do list
Website refresh waits until March
5. Calendarize
Mon 8 to 10: pricing, before email
You finish knowing the one win for next week, what waits, and what goes on Monday's calendar first.
Free and on demand. Then 30 minutes every Friday.
Here's how it went for other owners.
Out of survival mode
"From the outside it looked like I was managing, but internally I was exhausted, buried under backlogs…I cleared massive backlogs…I was no longer stuck in survival mode."
Clients served, new business pursued
"Before Lifehack Method I had to do it all…I get up before work to exercise, all while staying on top of meeting the needs of our clients, pursuing new business and building new workflows"
Weekends back, business better than ever
"I spent 7 years only working on the emergencies…I guard my weekends fiercely now and yet my business work and efficiency is better than ever."
In a position to scale
"I would not be in the position I am now to scale my business…"
Ten days off. No week of catch-up.
"I just came from 10 days of vacation, and for the first time in my life I didn't have to put in 20 hours a day of work for a solid week to catch up."
Runs three businesses off the cheat sheet
"…how I manage my three businesses, I always refer them to my cheat sheet."
4.8 out of 5 from 167 reviews on Trustpilot
Owners who took their week back.
Short videos from members of our coaching membership, in their own words.
Several businesses. Finally in control.
Kat Robey, counselor and CEO
Ready to quit after 33 years. Now she loves the work again.
Stopped running in circles. Started growing the business.
Two weeks off, fully unplugged, zero guilt.
Free and on demand. Then 30 minutes every Friday.
You might be thinking…
"Is it free? What's the catch?"
It's free. The training comes first. At the end I tell you how our members keep the plan going and what it costs. That part is an offer. Leave then if it's not for you. You keep the plan either way.
"Will this work for my kind of business?"
Owners in our reviews run counseling practices, accounting firms, jewelry and consulting businesses, from one-person firms to teams of 28 and more. The plan is about your week, so it travels.
"How much time does it take each week?"
About 30 minutes on Friday. The masterclass walks you through your first one.
"What happens the Friday I skip?"
You plan the next one. Step 1 starts with last week's lesson, so a missed Friday becomes the lesson. If you want someone holding you to Friday, that's what Lifehack Tribe is for. I cover it, and what it costs, at the end.
"I have ADHD. Will this work for my brain?"
I built it for mine. Most productivity advice assumes you'll stay disciplined all week. With this plan you decide on Friday, so on Tuesday you only have to show up.
"I've already bought the planners and the programs."
So have a lot of our members. Melissa, who's building two businesses, wrote: I tried A LOT of programs before I stumbled upon the Lifehack Method.
I start with why plans fade, then teach the one that brings me back every Friday.
"My clients and staff need me during the day."
They will. The plan leaves room for interruptions, and you decide ahead of time what moves when they show up.
"Will this fix how my team works?"
Not directly. This session is about your own week: what you take on and what waits. Once your week is on paper, you can see what belongs on someone else's desk, because you can't hand off a week you haven't planned.
Run the week like a CEO again.
Join the free on-demand masterclass, and then follow the method for 30 minutes every Friday.