Turn a big goal into a plan you'll actually follow
Build a plan sized to the time you really have, not the time you'd have in an ideal week.
- Use it for
- Anyone who's set an ambitious goal and watched the plan fall apart by week two.
Most goal plans fail for a boring reason: they're built for the person's best possible week, not their actual one. The plan assumes an hour every morning, full energy, no disruptions — and the first week that isn't perfect, which is most weeks, becomes evidence the plan failed, when really the plan was never realistic to begin with. The fix isn't more willpower, it's building the plan around your actual capacity and actual failure patterns from the start, so a bad week is expected and absorbed instead of derailing.
This prompt asks about your real constraints and your history of what's derailed you before, not just the goal.
When not to use this
For a short-term, low-stakes task, this is overkill — just do the thing. This is for goals with real duration (weeks to months) where you have an actual track record of good intentions not surviving contact with a real week.
Did this work?
The plan survives contact with a normal, imperfect week — not just a week where everything goes right — because you built the imperfect week into it from the start.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.