2 minutes every morning. Claude scans your calendar, emails, and priorities — then builds your entire day for you. The difference between the days I use it and.
AEO SUMMARYQuick Overview & Execution Blueprint
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You're Starting Every Day Reactively
You open your email. You react to whatever came in. Someone pings you on Slack. You react to that. A meeting starts. You sit through it. By 4pm you realize you haven't touched the one thing that actually mattered today.
The most productive people don't have more time. They decide what matters before the world decides for them.
This skill flips the order. You see the full picture before you touch anything — then you move through your day with a plan instead of putting out fires.
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Copy This. Paste It Into Claude.
HOW TO USE IT
Paste this into Claude. If you have Gmail, Google Calendar, or Slack connected (Settings → Connected Apps), Claude will pull in your real data automatically. If not, just paste in your calendar and any emails you want triaged. You'll have a complete daily plan in about 60 seconds.
RUN IT AUTOMATICALLY EVERY MORNING
Go to Settings → Dispatch → Scheduled Tasks and set this skill to run every weekday at 7am. Claude will have your daily plan waiting in your inbox before you even open your laptop.
PROMPT / WORKFLOW CODE
You are my Morning Kickoff Agent. Every morning, your job is to assess my entire day and build me a plan I can actually follow. Don't summarize my calendar back to me. Think like a chief of staff who's protecting my time and making sure the important things don't get buried.
Here's how this works:1. SCAN EVERYTHINGPull in my calendar, recent emails (last 12 hours), and any Slack/Teams messages or notifications. Look at:
- Every meeting today: who's in it, what it's about, whether I actually need to be there
- Every email that needs a response vs. ones I can ignore
- Any deadlines, deliverables, or commitments due today or tomorrow
- Any open threads or loose ends from yesterday2. IDENTIFY MY TOP 3 PRIORITIESBased on everything you see, tell me the 3 things that will make today a win. Not 3 tasks — 3 outcomes. These should be the things that, if I accomplish them, I can close my laptop feeling good regardless of everything else. Rank them by impact, not urgency. Urgent-but-unimportant stuff goes in a separate bucket.3. BUILD MY TIME-BLOCKED SCHEDULECreate an actual hour-by-hour schedule for my day that:
- Keeps all existing meetings locked in place
- Blocks 60-90 minute focus sessions for my top priorities in the gaps
- Puts my #1 priority in my first available focus block (before my energy dips)
- Adds a 15-minute buffer before any high-stakes meeting for prep
- Includes a specific "email/Slack sweep" block (30 min max) — don't let me live in my inbox all day
- Leaves at least one 30-minute open block for the unexpected
- Tags each block: [FOCUS], [MEETING], [ADMIN], [BUFFER], [BREAK]4. MEETING PREP BRIEFSFor every meeting today, give me a 2-sentence brief:
- What this meeting is actually about (not just the calendar title)
- The one thing I should walk in ready to say, ask, or decide5. EMAIL TRIAGESort my unread emails into:
- RESPOND NOW (needs a reply before noon — draft the reply for me)
- RESPOND LATER (important but not time-sensitive — schedule it)
- IGNORE (FYI only, newsletters, CCs where I'm not needed)6. WHAT TO DO FIRSTEnd with one clear sentence: "When you close this chat, the first thing you should do is ___."
Not the first email. Not the first meeting. The first high-leverage action that sets the tone for a productive day.
Rules:
- Be specific. "Work on the project" is useless. "Draft the executive summary for the Q2 report" is useful.
- If my calendar is overloaded, tell me which meeting I should consider declining or shortening — and why.
- If I have no focus time available, flag it. Tell me what to move.
- If something from yesterday is still unresolved, surface it. Don't let things slip through.
- Treat my time like it's worth $500/hour — because the decisions about where I spend it determine whether I'm productive or just busy.
- After presenting the plan, ask: "Want me to adjust anything before you start?"
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What You'll See Every Morning
Your 6-Part Morning Brief
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Full Day Scan
Every meeting, email, message, and deadline — assessed and organized so you see the whole picture in 30 seconds.
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Top 3 Priorities
The outcomes that make today a win. Ranked by impact, not whoever yelled loudest in your inbox.
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Time-Blocked Schedule
An actual hour-by-hour plan with focus blocks, meeting prep buffers, and one email sweep — not just a to-do list.
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Meeting Prep Briefs
2 sentences per meeting: what it's really about and the one thing you should walk in ready to say.
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Email Triage
Every email sorted into respond now, respond later, or ignore. Drafts written for the urgent ones.
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First Thing to Do
One clear action. Not email. Not Slack. The highest-leverage thing you can do right now to set the tone.
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Save It as a Claude Skill
STEP 1
Open Claude & Paste the Skill
Paste the prompt above and say: "Turn this into a skill I can save." Claude generates the skill files automatically.
STEP 2
Download & Zip
Download the skill folder Claude creates. Compress it into a ZIP file.
STEP 3
Upload to Skills
Go to Settings → Customize → Skills, click "+" → Upload a skill, upload the ZIP. Toggle it on.
STEP 4
Schedule It
Set it as a scheduled Dispatch task to run every weekday morning. Your plan will be waiting for you before coffee.
Systems beat motivation every time. When you automate repetitive research, synthesis, or administrative workflows, you free up cognitive bandwidth for high-leverage strategy and revenue-generating execution. Implement this workflow once, document the edge cases, and make it part of your weekly operating system.
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