Andrea Proske spent a career optimizing performance down to the millisecond. As an Olympic rower, her days were structured by coaches, training blocks, and recovery windows. But when she stepped away from sport, the structure disappeared — and so did her sense of direction.
How an Olympic athlete plans for the long game.
Olympic Athlete
“It's the first system that didn't ask me to be someone else.”
IN THE PAGES
How the planner actually looks in use.
Sunday planning, one page at a time.
The weekly spread — priorities before hours.
Thinking on paper, in the margins.
Numbered notes, indexed and findable.
Finding the thread again, months later.
Roles and goals in a single spread.
Their system
Three habits that hold it together.
01
Sunday reset
Ten minutes to close the week, name what mattered, and carry the rest forward.
02
Notes with an address
Every idea lands on a numbered page and gets logged in the index.
03
Three that count
The week starts with three outcomes that define what done looks like.