5 ChatGPT prompts to double your productivity with half the effort
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Stop working like it’s 1999. If something is difficult, something is wrong. When you’re doing what you were put here to do, it doesn’t feel like work. What if you could accomplish twice as much while feeling half as stressed? What if choosing the difficult way forward wasn’t the way to go anymore?
If you’re ambitious but lazy, AI has come in and handed you a life raft. You need these prompts.
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Double your results with ChatGPT: Work smarter, not harderMap your effortless wins
Your best work happens when you’re not forcing it. When you’re in flow, hours pass like minutes. But most entrepreneurs chase hard wins instead of easy ones. They think struggle equals progress. Wrong. Your zone of genius feels effortless because you’re built for it. Genius leaves clues.
“I want to identify activities in my business that feel effortless but create significant results. Based on what you know about my work, skills, and past successes, ask me 5 questions about tasks that energize me, projects I complete quickly, and work that others find difficult but I find easy. After I answer, analyze my responses to identify my top 3 ‘effortless win’ activities and suggest how to do more of them. Ask for more detail if required.”
Eliminate your energy vampires
Every business has hidden drains. Tasks that take forever. Projects that never quite work. Clients who suck your soul. You keep them because you think you should. Because that’s what responsible people do. But keeping energy vampires alive kills your potential. When you cut the dead weight, everything accelerates.
“Help me identify and eliminate activities that drain my energy without providing proportional value. Based on what you know about my business goals and working style, guide me through an audit of my current commitments. Ask me about recurring tasks, ongoing projects, and relationships that feel heavy. Then create a strategic plan to delegate, automate, or completely remove the bottom 20% of energy-draining activities from my schedule.”
Multiply your best thinking
Your best ideas deserve more mileage. One strong concept can fuel months of content. One breakthrough framework can transform your entire business model. But most entrepreneurs create something once and move on. They leave money on the table. Smart operators extract every drop of potential from their best thinking.
“I want to maximize the value of my best ideas through strategic repurposing. Based on what you know about my content and expertise, help me identify my most powerful concept, framework, or piece of content from the past year. Ask questions to understand its core value and unique angle. Then create a comprehensive plan showing 10 different ways to repurpose this single idea across different formats, platforms, and applications to multiply its impact.”
Design your power hours
Your brain has predictable windows of genius. Some entrepreneurs crush it at dawn. Others hit their stride after midnight. Working against your natural rhythm is like swimming upstream. When you honor your biological prime time, everything becomes easier. Peak performance isn’t random.
“Help me design a work schedule optimized for my natural energy patterns and peak performance times. Based on what you know about my work habits and responsibilities, ask me questions about when I feel most alert, creative, and focused throughout the day. Also explore when I typically hit energy slumps. Then create a detailed daily schedule template that blocks my most important work during peak hours and relegates routine tasks to lower-energy windows.”
Track and destroy distractions
Attention is your most valuable asset. Every notification steals energy. Every unnecessary meeting fractures your focus. Most entrepreneurs leak attention all day long. They wonder why nothing gets done. But protecting your attention isn’t selfish.
“I need a system to identify and eliminate my biggest attention leaks. Based on what you know about my work environment and habits, help me conduct a distraction audit. Ask me about my typical interruptions, digital habits, workspace setup, and focus challenges. Then create a personalized ‘attention protection protocol’ with specific tools, boundaries, and environmental changes to help me maintain deep focus for extended periods.”
Stop struggling and start flowing with ChatGPT
Do what you’re meant to do and eliminate what you’re not. Map your effortless wins. Eliminate your energy vampires. Multiply your best thinking. Design your power hours. Destroy distractions. Work from clarity. Work from power. The path of least resistance leads to your greatest contribution.
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