Draw seven columns
Label Monday through Sunday. For each day, mark morning, midday, and evening as high, medium, or low — based on caregiving, commute, medication schedules, or simply how your body has behaved during leave.
Protect two high blocks
Those become your non-negotiable focus windows. Everything else is flexible. When a manager proposes wall-to-wall meetings, you can point to the map instead of inventing excuses in the moment.
Update after week two
Your first guess will be wrong somewhere. Treat the map as a living draft. In Return Roadmap Intensive, we revise it during the first live review call once real work has returned.