# Use AI to plan your week, then make the decisions yourself

Original 5HO practice material. Fictional example. Reviewed 5 October 2026.

## Useful result

You'll finish with a weekly plan that records your fixed constraints, chosen priorities, protected capacity and deferrals.

AI can suggest a week. It cannot know that Tuesday’s “free hour” is actually school pickup unless you tell it. Start with real constraints and keep the final choice yourself.

## Set up

Use 20 minutes with chat and a copy of your availability. The exercise does not need live calendar access and should not create events.

## Practice input

Available work blocks: Monday 2 hours, Tuesday 1 hour, Thursday 2 hours. Tasks: proposal 2 hours, invoices 1 hour due Tuesday, training draft 3 hours due Friday. Meetings already excluded.

## Do the task

1. Count available hours before asking for a plan.
2. Ask AI to place deadlines first and expose work that will not fit.
3. Choose what to reduce, move or renegotiate; do not let the model hide overload in tiny time slots.

## Prompt

Propose a weekly plan from these blocks and tasks. Show total capacity versus required time. Do not create calendar events. Offer two ways to handle any shortfall without changing deadlines silently.

## Refine

Protect the invoice deadline. Leave the training shortfall visible and suggest the question I should ask its owner.

## Expected checks

There are five available hours and six hours of work. The plan cannot fit everything without a change. A realistic answer makes that one-hour gap explicit.

## Save

Save your chosen plan and the commitment you need to renegotiate. Compare actual durations at the end of the week.

## Sources

- Writing clear prompts: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10032626-prompt-engineering-best-practices-for-chatgpt