Dickie Bush’s Five-Part Daily Plan Puts Writing at the Center

In a recent LinkedIn post, Dickie Bush 🚢 discusses the handwritten daily planning template he uses to organize work, with a recurring priority: writing and publishing every day. This article reports on Bush’s post and examines the routine he describes; it is not written by Bush.

“I break it up into 5 sections:”

A simple framework for sorting the day

Bush says his plan has five categories: “Gameplan,” “One Big Thing,” “Build Leverage,” “Learn,” and “1-offs.” He describes these as the buckets into which his daily work fits. The structure gives the plan a mix of broad direction, a central priority, longer-term capacity building, learning, and smaller tasks.

According to Bush, the routine is deliberately handwritten and completed at the end of the workday. He says he fills it out during “the last 10 minutes of every work day,” a timing that makes planning part of closing out rather than a separate morning exercise.

Writing as the recurring priority

The post’s most specific detail is what Bush places under “One Big Thing.” He says the most common item there is writing for 90 minutes and publishing something each day.

“Writing for 90 minutes and publishing something every day.”

That example shows how Bush uses the template: a general planning framework is tied to a concrete, repeatable commitment. As Bush notes, writing is not just one category among many in his schedule; it is the task he says appears most often as the day’s main priority.

Consistency over a one-off push

Bush’s post presents publishing as a daily practice rather than an occasional project. The 90-minute block sets a defined amount of time, while the expectation to publish each day gives the work a clear output. The post does not explain how he handles days when that target is missed, but it does make the routine’s regularity central to his account.

An invitation to new writers

Bush closes by pointing readers who want to begin writing online to a free five-day crash course, which he says has helped more than 50,000 writers get started. The resource link functions as a next step for readers interested in the practice he describes, while the post’s main focus remains his own planning method and writing habit.

“Everything I do each day fits into one of these buckets.”

Overall, Bush’s post offers a compact view of how he structures work: plan by hand, sort tasks into five sections, and reserve the main priority for a consistent writing session. His account frames the template as a practical way to make daily publishing part of the workday.