Focused Morning Work Planner
Turn deals, customer issues, and team priorities into a focused three-task morning plan.
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Add the context you have. The prompt updates as you work.
List active deals, stage, value, next step, deadline, and any blocker.
List unresolved customer problems, severity, owners, and response deadlines.
List team goals, deadlines, dependencies, and commitments for today.
Choose the realistic time available for focused work today.
Live prompt
4 fieldsCreate a focused morning plan from these current work inputs: Open deals: {{open_deals_status}} Active customer issues: {{active_customer_issues}} Team priorities: {{team_priorities}} Available work time: 8 hours Rank work by urgency, customer impact, revenue impact, deadlines, and dependencies. Make reasonable assumptions without asking questions. Select exactly three priorities, assign practical time blocks that fit within the available work time, and choose the highest-value task for a one-hour contingency. Return exactly this three-point structure and nothing else: 1. Top 3 priorities today: [Priority A]; [Priority B]; [Priority C] 2. Time block for each: [Priority A — time block]; [Priority B — time block]; [Priority C — time block] 3. One thing if only one hour: [Specific task] Use concise, action-oriented wording. Do not add an introduction, conclusion, rationale, caveats, or follow-up questions.
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A real example
Tested on gpt-5.6-luna on 2026-09-10
{
"team_priorities": "Resolve the Redwood escalation; complete the enterprise pipeline forecast by 2:00; prepare materials for tomorrow's Acme executive review; unblock Northstar security questions.",
"open_deals_status": "Acme renewal — $48k, proposal sent, decision Friday; Northstar Retail — $22k, discovery complete, security review needed; BrightPay — $75k, legal redlines due today.",
"available_work_time": "8 hours",
"active_customer_issues": "Redwood Analytics reporting outage — high severity, engineering investigating, customer update due by 11:00; Lumen invoice discrepancy — medium severity, finance reviewing; Vela onboarding delay — medium severity, implementation team waiting on data mapping."
}A small ritual that works
How to use it
- 01List active deals with stage, value, next step, deadline, and blockers.
- 02List unresolved customer issues with severity, owners, and response deadlines.
- 03Add team priorities, deadlines, dependencies, and today's commitments.
- 04Select the realistic available work time and run the prompt.
Why it works
The prompt turns four practical inputs—deal status, customer issues, team priorities, and available work time—into a tightly constrained daily plan. It gives the planning criteria explicitly, including urgency, customer impact, revenue impact, deadlines, and dependencies. Requiring exactly three priorities, time blocks that fit the stated schedule, and a one-hour contingency task makes the requested structure easy to scan and operationalize. The instruction to make reasonable assumptions without asking questions keeps the process focused, while the fixed three-point format reduces unnecessary explanation.
Where it fails
The structure is less suitable when the day contains fewer than three meaningful priorities, when urgent work is highly unpredictable, or when available time is fragmented rather than continuous. Its ranking instructions also depend on the input describing severity, deadlines, value, ownership, and dependencies clearly enough to support prioritization. A fixed one-hour contingency task may be too rigid for work that requires a different response window.
Customisation tips
Adjust the ranking criteria to match the role, such as adding strategic importance, risk reduction, regulatory exposure, or effort required. Change the available-time choices if the audience commonly works in shorter sessions or split schedules. If the plan should distinguish customer-facing work from internal work, add that distinction to the input guidance. Replace the fixed three-priority requirement with a variable count only if the workflow genuinely needs flexibility. You can also request start and end times, task owners, or a separate blocked-work indicator when coordination matters.
Watch-outs
- The prompt asks for concise decisions, so important assumptions about urgency or dependencies are intentionally left unstated.
- The available-time field offers only three choices, which may not represent partial availability, meetings, or interruptions.
- The exact three-item format can force lower-value work into the plan when the input contains only one or two genuinely urgent items.
- Time blocks are constrained by total available work time, but the prompt does not separately account for meetings, context switching, or task duration uncertainty.
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