Find the task you've been avoiding and finish one step today
One writer used this single instruction to finally set up a meeting they'd been avoiding.
Published . Steps as of November 2026.
How can AI help me stop putting off a task?
Paste your messy list and ask for the one thing you've been avoiding, plus a single step you can finish in five minutes. Skip asking for a plan. Claude suits this if you want to save the instruction in a project and reuse it, which is what the source writer did. ChatGPT or Gemini work the same way for a one-time paste. It fits anyone with a long list and no idea where to start.
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Your prompt
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Claude and ChatGPT open with your prompt already typed in. Gemini can't be filled in from a link, so its button copies your prompt: paste it into the new chat.
The prompt that gets copied
I'm stuck and I don't need a schedule or a productivity system. Read the list below and work out which thing I've been putting off the longest. Go by what the words tell you: things I keep rewriting, half-finished ideas, anything that sounds dreaded or vague. Don't just pick the most urgent or the oldest date. Tell me which one it is in one sentence, and why you think I've been avoiding it in one more. Then give me a single step I can finish in the next five minutes, small enough that I can't argue with it. After that, stop. No extra tips, no list of next steps, no pep talk. If I come back and say it's done, give me the next five-minute step and nothing more. Here's my list: [YOUR MESSY LIST, e.g. notes, half-done ideas, old to-dos]
Paste your messy notes and half-done ideas. Instead of another plan, you get the one thing you've been dodging longest and a single step you can finish in five minutes.
Step by step
- Copy your to-do list, notes and half-finished ideas
- Paste the prompt below with your list in it and send
- Set a timer for five minutes and do the one step
- Save the prompt in a Claude project's instructions so it's ready next time
What you'll get
The one task you've been dodging, a sentence on why, and a single step small enough to finish in five minutes.
- Made for
- Everyone, Coaches, Creators
- Works in
- Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
