Create sheet of your 100 key relationships, last contact, next planned.

Prepare 10 deep questions before any coffee chat — converts pleasantries to relationship.

After hearing your partner, reflect back three sentences: content, feeling, and underlying value.

Apologize with: name the act, the impact, take ownership, repair step. No "sorry if...".

Each day, tell one person about a specific act they did or a precise quality — no "you are great".

Trade six escalating-depth questions with a close person to deepen intimacy in 30 minutes.

90 days into contract: review with vendor — don't wait for renewal to find issues.

Don't ask "do we need another hire?" — ask "if we started today with nobody, who'd we hire first?".

Design a 3-phase leadership onboarding plan: Learn (30) → Contribute (60) → Own (90) — instead of leaving the new member to "figure it out alone".

Request output as JSON with a defined schema to enable automated processing without manual parsing.

Separate prompt parts with XML tags (instructions, examples, document) so the model handles each precisely.

Disable all red count badges on app icons — they are engineered to trigger OCD reflex.

Don't ask AI "write in author X's style". That = using their commercial style sans permission.