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A Bold First Step
Here is a series of edited prompts that will guide you through your mental clutter, explore your darkest fears, delineate your current working habits, your current framework of accountability and define your most important goals. Then you will generate a Bold Action Plan consistent with your goals and create a detailed hour-by-hour Perfect Day Schedule with built-in safeguards against overthinking and procrastination, including mindfulness techniques, action-oriented breaks, and clear priority markers. This is modified after an outstanding and thoughtful Forbes article by Jodie Cook. Jodie also has an engaging website and blog.
Remove the clutter and the chaos, refocus your mind and achieve greatness – today.
Spend as much time as possible on this, give long and detailed answers and list all your goals, professional and personal. Remember to include exercise and mention the tools you might currently use to manage your time for example Focusmate and this will result in the most accurate Bold Action Plan and the most effective Perfect Repeatable Daily Schedule. Go – NOW!
Importantly – save this in Chat GPT and as circumstances, projects and goals change ask AI to modify your schedule and plan accordingly. Copy everything within “parentheses”.
Define your current mental environment
PROMPT 1
“Please act as my personal productivity coach specializing in overthinking and procrastination. Ask me questions about my current mental landscape, one at a time. Help me identify the top 3 thoughts or concerns that keep me stuck, spinning in circles instead of taking action. For each thought:
1) Examine its actual importance,
2) Determine if it’s something I can control, and
3) Create a specific action to either resolve or release it. After analyzing these thoughts, create a ‘mental decluttering’ plan with daily practices to keep my mind clear and focused”.
Lets go to the Dark Side – Your Worst Fears
PROMPT 2
“I want to stop procrastinating and being paralyzed by perceived negative outcomes. Guide me through a systematic approach to analyzing my current overthinking and procrastinating. First, help me articulate my specific fears or concerns in detail. Then, for any potential negative outcome, ask me to:
1) Assess the actual likelihood of this happening,
2) Develop a specific contingency plan if it does occur, and
3) Identify the potential opportunities for growth that could emerge from any negative outcome. Conclude by creating a one-page ‘Fear Transformation’ document that turns my overthinking into a strategic roadmap.”
Turn your inner critic into your Resident AI
PROMPT 3
“I want to reframe my inner critic from a source of overthinking to a tool for growth. Ask me to describe the specific ways my inner critic typically speaks to me. For each critical thought, help me:
1) Identify the underlying fears or concerns,
2) Translate the criticism into actionable insights, and
3) Develop a compassionate yet motivating response.
Create a personal ‘Inner Critic Translation Guide’ that turns negative self-talk into specific, forward-moving actions.”
Your Bold Action Plan
PROMPT 4
“Guide me in creating a Bold Action Plan that cuts through overthinking. Ask me about my current goals both personal and professional and the specific ways overthinking and procrastinating has held me back. For each goal develop:
1) A clear, measurable objective,
2) Three immediate, small actions I can take in the next 24 hours, and
3) Potential obstacles with specific strategies to overcome them.
Create a short, powerful, Bold Action Plan that turns my overthinking into a step-by-step plan for moving forward, including accountability mechanisms and celebration points.”
Your Perfect Repeatable Day
PROMPT 5
“Help me design a Perfect Repeatable Day that minimizes overthinking, eliminates procrastination and maximizes productivity. Ask me questions about my current daily routine including, time I wake, and sleep, when i have lunch, dinner and breakfast and when and how I exercise. Ask when I am most productive and whether I block out time for important tasks. Ask me how I manage my routine and what tools I might use to manage it. Ask me about my key responsibilities and accountabilities. Ask for my time-zone.
Ask for a list of the four or so most important tasks in order of importance and the time to complete each task. For each part of the day identify:
- Most Important tasks,
- Potential overthinking and procrastination triggers, and,
- Specific strategies to stay focused.
Ask for which day I wish to create a detailed hour-by-hour schedule, my “Repeatable Perfect Day“, and generate this schedule with built-in safeguards against overthinking and procrastination, including mindfulness techniques, action-oriented breaks, and clear priority markers. Then, generate text in a .csv file format and instructions about how to load my Repeatable Perfect Day into Outlook and Gmail calendars“.
To reuse your these prompts collate the original prompt and add all of you responses and clarifications then simply alter them accordingly. For example: The most important daily tasks might change, so list them in order and estimate the amount of time they will take. Just keep modifying the prompt as you go and the result will be more relevant over time. You can do this on a daily basis – and that would be my recommendation.
This iterative approach will result in a unique prompt ideally suited for you!