Five days. One job a day.

About twenty minutes each, on your own real work. No account, no card, nothing to install, and it all works on the free version of Claude.

This is not a course about AI. Every day you finish something you actually needed doing.

1. ✓ Before you start

   Decide it is worth twenty minutes a day

   Already done. That is the point.

   You are here, which was the hard part. This one is ticked before you start, on purpose: it is much easier to finish something you have already begun.

   Five days. One job a day. About twenty minutes. No account, no card, nothing to install.

   How you know it worked

   Nothing to check. Go to day one.

2. Day 1 about 20 minutes

   The email you have been putting off

   The awkward one, out of your drafts and sent, today.

   Everyone has one. The client whose work is late, the person you have to say no to, the invoice nobody has paid. It has been sitting there for days because starting it is the hard part.

   Give Claude the four things it cannot guess: who it is for, what actually happened including the bits that are your fault, how you want them to feel, and the one thing you want them to do.

   Then ask the only question that matters: would you send it without changing anything? If not, say exactly what is wrong. Not "make it better". "Too apologetic, I have not done anything wrong here."

   How you know it worked

   You sent it. Not "you have a good draft". Sent. That is the whole of day one.

3. Day 2 about 20 minutes

   Make it sound like you

   The twenty minutes that fixes the complaint everybody has.

   Find three things you actually wrote. A real email, a caption you were happy with, a product description. Not your most polished work. Your normal voice is the point.

   Paste all three in and say: "This is how I write. Read these three, then do yesterday’s job again in my voice."

   Then save those three somewhere you can reach in a few seconds. That file is the most useful thing you will make this week.

   How you know it worked

   Put the two versions side by side and look. Do not take anyone’s word for it, including mine. If the second one is not more like you, say what is still off and go again.

4. Day 3 about 20 minutes

   The thing you rewrite every week

   Stop starting from scratch.

   Pick the request you type most often. Write it once, properly, with the two blocks almost every saved prompt is missing:

   • What it needs to know about your business before it can be any good.
   • What a good answer looks like, and the two or three ways it usually goes wrong.

   Save it in a document. Use it twice this week.

   How you know it worked

   You used it a second time without editing it. If you had to rewrite it, the two blocks above are not specific enough yet.

5. Day 4 about 20 minutes

   Ask it about your own work, not the internet

   The day it stops being a search engine.

   Give it something real. Your prices, your services page, last month’s numbers, your own notes. Then ask the question you have nobody to ask: "What am I not seeing here?"

   How you know it worked

   It will say something confidently that is wrong. Find it. That is not the exercise failing, it is the exercise. You are learning to judge rather than obey, and judgement is what makes it safe to let loose on your own business.

6. Day 5 about 20 minutes

   The thing you keep

   Something you can point at, that is still yours next month.

   Take the three writing samples from day two and the saved request from day three, and put them somewhere permanent that you will actually find again.

   Then write down, in your own words, the two or three rules you kept having to repeat this week. "Never open with I hope this finds you well." "Always give me the number, not just the list."

   That short list is your voice, written down. Everything you do from here starts closer to right.

   How you know it worked

   You can open it in under ten seconds. If finding it is a hunt, you will stop using it, and then none of this week sticks.