Winning the Week

Overview

Winning the Week is a productivity system and bestselling book by Demir and Carey Bentley, founders of Lifehack Method. The framework emerged from the authors' personal experience with burnout in high-pressure careers, and is designed to help professionals work less while achieving more.

Core Principles

• Time audits: The foundation of the system, involving two weeks of tracking time in 30-minute increments to identify where hours actually go.
• Priority alignment: Identifying and scheduling dedicated blocks of time for the most important goals.
• Weekly planning: Structuring the week ahead to ensure alignment between stated priorities and actual time allocation.
• Peak productivity scheduling: Scheduling demanding tasks during individual peak productivity hours.
• Continuous improvement: Tracking progress, making adjustments, and celebrating wins to build lasting habits.

Authors

Demir and Carey Bentley built this system after experiencing burnout in their own careers. Their approach has helped 50,000+ professionals at organizations including Google, Uber, and PepsiCo develop better time management skills.

Key Tools

• Time Audit Template: A simple framework for tracking activities by date, time period, activity name, time spent, and notes/categories.
• Lifehack Tribe: A support community and program for ongoing time management skill development.
• Free Time Audit Template: Available on the Lifehack Method website to help users get started quickly.

Impact

Professionals who complete a time audit using this system report feeling more in control of their schedules within two weeks, with many reclaiming 5-10+ hours per week that were previously consumed by untracked low-value activities.