Chapter six

Your first week

Five days. Twenty minutes each. By Friday, ChatGPT knows your business, writes in your voice, and has already helped you think through a real decision.

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The plan

Each day builds on the one before — don't shuffle the order. Twenty minutes, one real task from your actual business, not a practice exercise. Check them off as you go; this page remembers your progress.

YOUR FIRST WEEK0 OF 5 DONE
Day 1 · The setup — 20 min

Set your custom instructions, then write one real email. Fill in the Lesson 2 template and paste it into Settings. Then pick a real email you owe someone and draft it with a C.R.A.F.T. prompt. Notice how much more "you" it sounds already, thanks to the instructions.

Day 2 · The listing — 20 min

Redo one product description. Take your weakest-performing listing and rebuild it with prompts 1 and 5 from the library. Ask for three options, then read them as a first-time buyer. Publish the winner — a real improvement, live today.

Day 3 · The content batch — 20 min

Generate a week of content from one idea. Use prompt 11 (30 ideas from one product), pick your five favorites, and draft them with prompt 12 or 16. Schedule them. That's your whole week of posting handled before lunch.

Day 4 · The editing workflow — 20 min

Run the "tighten, don't rewrite" pass on your own draft. Take something you already wrote — a newsletter, an about-page paragraph — and use prompt 44. Accept only the changes that still sound like you. This is the workflow that protects your voice while still saving you time.

Day 5 · The business-brain chat — 20 min

Think through one real decision out loud. Bring a live question — a price, an offer, a "should I…" — and use prompt 33 (talk me out of it) or 34 (SWOT as a tough consultant). Let ChatGPT be the colleague who asks the questions your friends are too nice to ask.

After the week

Keep exactly two habits: set your custom instructions once and update them as your business changes, and reach for the library instead of starting from a blank box. Everything else in this course is seasoning. Those two are the meal.

Closing

You're not late anymore

You now understand ChatGPT better than most people who use it every day. You know what it is (a word-predictor, not a fact machine), how to brief it (C.R.A.F.T.), how to protect your voice, and which of the sixty prompts to reach for. The tool was never the point — the point is that your judgment and your voice now have a multiplier.

When a feature moves or a price changes — and it will — the method travels with you: give it real context, talk back to the first draft, protect your voice, verify the facts, and stay the editor. Those work in every AI tool, this year and next.

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