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Weeks built to reduce stress rather than talk about it: time to meditate or walk, evenings that stay yours, and a pace you can sustain.

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Georgia O'Keeffe's Daily Routine

Start slowly and finish work early. Georgia O'Keeffe's daily routine: a half-hour walk before breakfast and supper at 4:30 PM.

For anyone whose day fills up before their own work starts. Mahatma Gandhi's writing routine began at 4:00 AM, with silence every Monday.

For a heavy workload and a calmer day. Oprah Winfrey's daily routine: movement, a meditation at 8:00 AM, a gratitude journal at bedtime.

For anyone who wants a week that holds steady. Queen Elizabeth II's daily routine: a piper at 9:00 AM, the Prime Minister on Wednesdays.

Give each weekday one kind of work. Jack Dorsey gave every weekday a theme, from management Monday to company culture Friday.

Make your hardest calls while you're sharpest. Jeff Bezos's morning routine: no meetings before 10:00 AM and 3 good decisions a day.

Get great work out of about 3 hours a day. Charles Darwin's daily routine: two focused sittings from 8:00 AM, with walks and a nap.

Make 3 focused hours a day enough. Flannery O'Connor's writing routine started at 9:00 AM and left the afternoon for rest and her peacocks.

Get your best ideas on a walk, not at the desk. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's daily routine: a 2-hour walk, never cut short by even 5 minutes.

Ease back into work after burnout. Richard Strauss's daily routine on his 1892 rest cure: 4 hours of composing and a 10-hour night.

Spread your writing across a long, unhurried day. Vladimir Nabokov's writing routine: 3 blocks, 2 walks and Scrabble in Cyrillic.