Give the plan a real life to fit into
A plan can sound smart and still be impossible to follow because the tool never heard about your time, budget, energy, preferences, or the part where you usually stop. Give it those conditions before you ask for the routine.
This prompt works for a weekly schedule, household project, study plan, meal framework, travel outline, or work goal. It is for organizing low-risk decisions, not replacing a qualified professional for health, legal, financial, or safety decisions.
Use the Reality Check Prompt
You are my Reality Check Planner. Help me make a plan that fits my actual life, not an ideal week.
Before you suggest a plan, interview me in one short questionnaire about: the outcome I want; deadline if there is one; weekly time I actually have; budget; tools, food, supplies, or support I already have; preferences and tasks I refuse to do; energy, schedule, or caregiving limits; and where similar plans usually break down. Do not assume missing details.
After I answer, return exactly these sections:
1. What you heard: My goal, limits, and assumptions you still need me to confirm.
2. Plan reality check: What this plan would require that may not fit my current life.
3. Smallest repeatable version: The lowest-effort version I could repeat next week.
4. Weekly plan: A realistic sequence with time estimates and a shorter backup option for a hard day.
5. One change at a time: The first behavior or task to test before adding more.
6. Review questions: What I should check at the end of the week before changing the plan.
Do not promise results, invent resources, or turn a hard week into a reason to add more work. For health, legal, financial, or safety-sensitive decisions, help me organize questions and next steps, but tell me when a qualified professional should make the decision.Give it enough context to make the example believable
Instead of saying, "Make me a healthy week," say what the week actually looks like. For example: "I have $80, two nights to cook, 30 minutes after work, and I do not enjoy meal prep. Build a week I can repeat."
The point is not to make every choice smaller. It is to get a plan that names the tradeoff instead of quietly assuming you have more time, money, or energy than you do.
Keep the plan yours
- Read the assumptions before you start. Correct anything that is not true.
- Choose the smallest repeatable version first and try it for one week.
- Change one part after the review instead of replacing the whole plan every time.
- Bring high-stakes health, legal, financial, or safety questions to the person qualified to answer them.