5 questions before any presentation: who, why, what, how, what next.

Write 10 likely questions — prepare responses.

Open with "I'm curious about X in your field" — dry chat turns into expertise exchange.

Refuse to attend or hold any meeting whose agenda did not arrive 24 hours prior, no exceptions.

Sort every file you own into just four: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive.

Before any open forum, write the 10 hardest expected questions and answer them in writing — never improvise live.

Prepare your firstborn for a sibling's arrival — before birth, during, and the first three months.

Plan a family outing with a proactive sensory-trigger scan, not reliance on luck.

Before an important negotiation, use AI to simulate the other side's likely responses and rehearse your replies, not to write a script you read verbatim.