Meet your productivity coach

Install your coach to support you week after week to get more of the right stuff done.

Last week I published the Epic Guide to Quarterly Planning.

In that guide, I talk in depth about the difference between a plan that helps you rise to the occasion and a plan that gets forgotten and becomes an underlying source of pressure.

There is one more thing I want to add to the system for those moments when you know your North Star, your goals, your plan but:

• The week is busy or hard

• You’re not feeling your best

• You’re overwhelmed

Sometimes we need support to laser in on the most important actions at the most important time.

Today, you’re getting a tool that does exactly that.

The first time I built something like this was a custom GPT I named Ophelia.

She was one of the most-used tools in the Hey Systems membership: an ADHD-trained productivity coach who helps you refocus on your priorities and figure out what's realistic for the day.

This is the same idea, built for you to install and make your own, with the option to include context from your goals, life and business.

It’s designed to give you instant relief when you feel overwhelmed.

What your productivity coach does:

This is a conversational AI assistant you open at the start of a work session. It helps you figure out what to focus on and where to start.

Built on ADHD-informed principles, it’s designed to:

• Ask one question at a time and wait for your answer before moving on

• Help you figure out what’s realistic today based on your energy and time

• Break projects into small, ordered steps when something feels too big to start

• Check back on tasks without making you feel behind

• Celebrate what got done

Next: the full instructions, how to set it up in Claude or ChatGPT, and how to customize it for your business.