651 prompts
Goal-oriented prompts for motivation, accountability, and personal growth
Help me navigate starting a new job after unemployment. Ask me about the transition: What are you feelingβrelief, anxiety, imposter syndrome, gratitud...
Help me integrate my job loss experience into my life story. Ask me what I've learned through this chapter: about myself, about work, about resilience...
Help me explore my fear around making decisions. Ask me about a decision I'm currently stuck on. What specifically scares me about choosing? That I'll...
Guide me to work with my fear of making the 'wrong' decision. Ask me: What makes a decision 'wrong'? What would happen if I chose 'wrong'? Would it be...
Help me understand if I'm stuck in analysis paralysis. Ask me: How long have I been researching this decision? Am I gathering new useful information, ...
Guide me to work with my fear of regret and FOMO (fear of missing out). Ask me: What am I afraid I'll regret? The choice I make, or the options I don'...
Help me explore my fear of commitment and closing doors. Ask me: Do I avoid deciding because deciding feels like trapping myself? Do I like to 'keep m...
Guide me to reframe decisions from permanent commitments to experiments I can test. Ask me: Which decisions am I treating as permanent that are actual...
Help me understand whether I'm a maximizer (always seeking the best option) or satisficer (choosing good-enough). Ask me: Do I exhaust myself research...
Help me make decisions based on my values rather than fear. Ask me about a decision I'm stuck on. Then ask: What do I value most? What matters to me i...
Guide me to examine how others' opinions affect my decision-making. Ask me: Whose approval am I seeking in this decision? Am I choosing what I want, o...
Help me build trust in my decision-making capacity. Ask me to reflect: What past decisions have I made that worked out? What does this tell me about m...
Guide me to make decisions using the regret-minimization framework (Jeff Bezos). Ask me to imagine looking back on this decision from age 80 or my dea...
Help me make peace with my decisions after I choose. Ask me about a recent decision I'm second-guessing. Guide me through: (1) COMMIT: I chose this fo...
Help me recognize if I'm a workaholic. Ask me about my relationship with work: Do you feel unable to stop? Guilt when not working? Work as escape? Ide...
Help me separate my worth from my productivity. Ask me about the fusion: Do you feel valuable only when producing? Worthless when resting? Does your s...
Help me learn to rest without crushing guilt. Ask me about rest: Can you enjoy downtime? Feel anxious when idle? Constantly fill time with productivit...
Help me set work boundaries that I'll actually keep. Ask me about current patterns: When do you work? When are you available? Where are the boundaries...
Help me examine relationships I've neglected through work. Ask me about the damage: Who have you pushed away? What have you missed? Do people feel sec...
Help me explore what I'm avoiding by overworking. Ask me about the escape: What happens when you stop? What feelings arise in stillness? What does wor...
Help me face the physical toll of overwork. Ask me about my body: Sleep? Exercise? Eating habits? Chronic pain? Stress symptoms? Burnout signs? Then c...
Help me find meaning outside of work. Ask me about life beyond the job: What else matters? What did you used to enjoy? What would you do with free tim...
Help me identify what triggers my overwork. Ask me about patterns: When does work compulsion intensify? Stress? Anxiety? Deadlines? Fear of failure? C...
Help me navigate a work environment that enables or encourages overwork. Ask me about my context: Is overwork expected? Rewarded? Are there other work...
Help me explore who I am without my work identity. Ask me honestly: If work disappeared, who would you be? What would you talk about? How would you in...
Help me build a sustainable relationship with work for the long term. Ask me about what sustainable looks like: How much is enough? What boundaries ne...
Help me recognize whether I'm experiencing side hustle burnout. Ask me about your situation: How many income streams or projects are you managing? How...
Help me examine the messages I've absorbed about constant hustling. Ask me about the beliefs: Where did 'I should have multiple income streams' come f...
Help me separate my worth from my productivity and hustle. Ask me about your identity: Do you feel valuable when resting? What happens when you're not...
Act as my side hustle burnout recovery coach. Help me find a sustainable relationship with work after buying into hustle culture. Ask me about your si...
Help me honestly assess whether my hustling is financially necessary. Ask me about your financial situation: Are you surviving or accumulating? What l...
Help me develop boundaries around work and side hustles. Ask me about your rest: When do you stop working? Do you have genuine off time? Can you relax...
Help me define what 'enough' means for me. Ask me about your relationship with enough: Do you have a number? Do you move the goal post? What are you s...
Help me reclaim hobbies that became side hustles and lost their joy. Ask me about what happened: What did you love doing before you monetized it? How ...
Help me address FOMO around opportunities I'm not pursuing. Ask me about the fear: Are you afraid of missing the 'big break'? Do you say yes to everyt...
Help me design a sustainable relationship with work after side hustle burnout. Ask me about what you've learned: What did burnout teach you? What do y...
Help me explore teaching values to my children without religion. Ask me about my situation: Was I raised religious? What values do I want to teach? Wh...
Help me address meaning and purpose questions with my children without religious answers. Ask me about questions they ask: Why are we here? What happe...
Help me navigate religious extended family as a secular parent. Ask me about the dynamics: What are grandparents saying? Taking kids to church without...
Help me explain death to my children without afterlife beliefs to comfort them. Ask me about the situation: Has there been a death? Are they asking qu...
Help me build community and create meaningful rituals for my secular family. Ask me about what we have: Are we isolated? Missing holiday structure? Wa...
Help me decide how to expose my children to religion as education rather than indoctrination. Ask me about my approach: Do I want religious literacy? ...
Help me process guilt about not raising my children in the faith I was raised in. Ask me about the guilt: Family disappointment? Fear I'm harming them...
Help me respond when my children ask about God or religion. Ask me about questions they're asking: Is God real? Why don't we go to church? What do we ...
Help me prepare my children to navigate religious differences with friends. Ask me about situations: Friends inviting to church? Questions about why t...
Help me navigate holidays as a secular family. Ask me about our challenges: What to do with Christmas? Easter? Explaining to kids? Creating our own me...
Help me navigate parenting when my partner has different views on religion than I do. Ask me about the disagreement: How different? What's the conflic...
Help me cultivate wonder and spirituality in my children without religion. Ask me about what I want them to experience: awe, gratitude, connection to ...
Help me handle criticism of my secular parenting from family, friends, or community. Ask me about what I face: accusations of harm, concern for childr...
Help me navigate my child's interest in religion. Ask me about the situation: What's attracting them? Friends' influence? Genuine curiosity? Rebellion...
Help me teach ethics and empathy to my children without religious framework. Ask me about what I value: kindness, honesty, justice, compassion. Then h...
Help me reflect on my secular parenting journey and where to go from here. Ask me about what's worked and what I question: Are my children thriving? W...
Help me identify a goal that truly matters to me. Ask me about different life areas (career, relationships, health, creativity, impact) and what feels...
Help me transform my vague goal into a SMART goal (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound). Ask me what I'm trying to achieve. Guide m...
Help me connect to my deeper 'why' for this goal. Ask me: Why do I want to achieve this? And after I answer, ask 'why?' again, going 5 levels deep. Gu...
Help me anticipate obstacles to my goal. Ask me what could get in the way: time constraints, competing priorities, lack of skills/resources, other peo...
Help me break my goal down into concrete action steps. Ask me about my timeline, then guide me to work backward: What's the end state? What needs to h...
Help me set a meaningful goal and break it down into actionable steps. Ask me about my motivation, timeline, and potential obstacles, then help me cre...
Help me prioritize when I have multiple goals competing for my attention. Ask me to list all my current goals across life areas. Guide me to assess ea...
Help me shift from goal-oriented to systems-oriented thinking. Ask me about my goal, then guide me to design a sustainable process that makes the outc...
Help me create an accountability system for my goal. Ask me what would help me stay committed: public declaration, accountability partner, financial s...
Guide me to review my goal progress. Ask me what's working, what's not, and what I've learned. Help me celebrate wins, even small ones. Guide me to ad...
Help me use visualization to strengthen my goal pursuit. Guide me to close my eyes and imagine in vivid detail: achieving the goal, what I see/hear/fe...
Help me process a goal I didn't achieve. Ask me what happenedβnot to judge, but to learn. Guide me to explore: What was in my control vs not? What wou...
Help me set a stretch goal that scares and excites me. Ask me what I'd attempt if I knew I couldn't fail. Guide me to articulate a goal that's beyond ...
Help me connect my goals to my identity. Ask me: Who do I need to become to achieve this goal? What beliefs, habits, and skills does that person have?...
Guide me through annual goal-setting. Ask me to reflect on the past year: What am I proud of? What didn't go as planned? What did I learn? Then help m...
Help me think beyond short-term goals to legacy. Ask me: What do I want to have built, created, or contributed in 5, 10, 20 years? What do I want to b...
Help me ensure my goals create balance, not just achievement in one area. Ask me about my goals across: career, relationships, health, personal growth...
Help me let go of a goal that's no longer right for me. Ask me why I set this goal initially and what's changed. Guide me to give myself permission to...
Help me practice self-disclosure gradually and appropriately. I either share nothing or overshareβI don't know the middle ground of healthy disclosure...
Act as my accountability partner. Help me review my recent progress toward my goals, identify where I fell short, and guide me to set realistic next s...
Help me explore what courage means to me personally. Start by asking me to describe 3-5 moments in my life when I felt genuinely braveβtimes when I ac...
Help me assess my current courage capacity across different life domains. Ask me to rate my courage level (1-10) in each of these areas: (1) PROFESSIO...
Help me distinguish between real danger and fear-based avoidance. Ask me to describe a specific situation I'm currently avoiding because it feels scar...
Help me design 5-7 small, low-stakes courage experiments for this week. Start by asking me which life domain I want to focus on (professional, relatio...
Help me reflect on a recent moment of courage, no matter how small. Ask me to describe what I didβwhat was the brave action I took? Then guide me thro...
Help me build the courage to speak up in professional meetings. Start by asking about my current meeting behavior: Do I stay silent even when I have i...
Help me practice asking for help when I need it. Start by asking: What's my relationship with asking for help? Do I pride myself on being self-suffici...
Help me build courage to share my creative work publicly. Start by asking: What creative work have I made that I've been hiding? (writing, art, music,...
Help me practice admitting mistakes and saying 'I don't know.' Start by asking about a recent mistake I'm avoiding owning. What happened? What was my ...
Help me develop the courage to change my mind publicly when presented with new evidence. Start by asking: What belief or opinion have I held strongly ...
Help me build courage to stand alone when my values conflict with group consensus. Start by asking me to describe a current situation where I disagree...
Help me build courage to enforce boundaries I've already set. Start by asking: What boundary have I communicated that I'm struggling to maintain? (tim...
Help me build the courage to be the first to apologize, even when the other person was also wrong. Start by asking: What's the relationship conflict I...
Help me practice expressing unpopular opinions with courage and respect. Start by asking: What opinion do I hold that goes against the dominant view i...
Help me recover from a visible failure with courage and resilience. Start by asking me to describe what happened. What did I try that didn't work? Who...
Help me choose imperfect action over perfect inaction. Start by asking: What am I not doing because it won't be perfect? (starting a project, sharing ...
Help me prepare for an awkward or difficult conversation I've been avoiding. Start by asking: What conversation do I need to have that I've been putti...
Help me integrate courage as a core part of my identity, not just something I do occasionally. Start by asking me to review my courage journey: What b...
Help me build courage to express my authentic self despite potential social cost. Start by asking: Where in my life am I performing or masking? (at wo...
Help me build courage to advocate for myself in professional settingsβasking for raises, promotions, credit, and recognition. Start by asking: What am...
Help me assess and potentially take a major career riskβjob change, career pivot, entrepreneurship, or bold move. Start by asking: What's the career r...
Help me build courage to end a relationship that no longer serves meβfriendship, romantic relationship, professional relationship, or family relations...
Help me prepare for coming out about a significant identity (LGBTQ+ orientation/gender, neurodivergence, mental health, recovery, disability, etc.). S...
Help me build courage to assert my cultural identity or minority perspective in professional or dominant-culture settings. Start by asking: What's my ...
Help me build resilience to creative rejection so I can keep showing my work despite criticism or indifference. Start by asking: What creative rejecti...
Help me use body-based practices to access courage before taking brave action. This is about accessing courage through the body, not just the mind. St...
Help me take courageous action aligned with my values, even when I feel afraid, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles. Start by ask...
Help me have an imaginary conversation with someone I admire for their courage, to internalize their wisdom and access my own bravery. Start by asking...