Instead of Bookmarking This Article, Take Action With Claude
You probably have a medium-sized library of incredible advice you’ve never opened.
Saving the idea feels close enough to acting on it that your brain awards partial credit.
Then you scroll on...
Dan Koe published How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day, and the article went viral, and a little infamous for a strange number.
Over 770,000 bookmarks.
Hundreds of thousands of people saved instructions for changing their lives in a day so they could change their lives...later.
Claude can help you fix that.
I borrowed a habit from people who journal for a living and turned it into an AI skill
Nicolas Cole’s 30-minute morning practice begins with a compact check-in. He writes about yesterday, the work in front of him, what is approaching, and what he appreciates.
Cole says the practice helps him hear himself. That awareness leads to action, which is exactly the state you need before asking an AI to help. And working with him lets me see how this leads to massive action, fast.
Dickie Bush takes the next step in The Bottleneck Analysis. Choose one area of life, set a timer for 30 minutes, identify the biggest thing holding you back, then examine why your attention keeps going elsewhere.
Put the two practices together and you have a useful sequence. First, see the week clearly. Then find the constraint that matters enough to change.
Claude makes that sequence easier to complete in one sitting. Sure, you have to set the timer and block out the noise, but one of the things I love about AI is this...
Instead of bookmarking the post, article, or video, paste it into Claude with this prompt:
Open a new Claude chat with a calendar nearby for scheduling the final action while the decisions you make are fresh.
Paste the article or transcript into the chat box
Paste the prompt below into the same chat box.
Press Enter.
I want to get unstuck on one part of my life during the next 30 minutes.
Act as a patient interviewer. Reflect my answers accurately, then assemble the final document from my words. The insight and decisions come from me. Your job is to help me reach specific answers and preserve my wording.
Begin with a quick personal check-in. Ask about what happened yesterday, what I am working on now, what will demand attention soon, and what I feel grateful for.
Then ask me to choose one area of life where progress would matter most right now. Help me identify the main bottleneck in that area and the reason I keep directing my attention elsewhere.
Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. When I use broad language such as “better” or “more successful,” ask me to describe a recent moment and the result I want to see. Reflect important phrases back to me using my original words so I can correct your understanding.
Once the situation is clear, help me choose one decision and one next action I can complete or begin within 24 hours. Ask me for the exact day and time when I will do it.
At the end, create a one-page Unstuck Plan with these sections:
My situation, including what is happening right now
The main bottleneck keeping this area stuck
What I have been avoiding and how it shows up
The decision I am making today
My next action, written as one concrete step
The exact scheduled day and time
Write the plan in plain language using my strongest original phrases. Before presenting the final version, ask me to approve or correct it.
Then answer the first question. You can even use the Dictation features to have your AI listen to you ramble instead of going through the effort of typing.
You may feel tempted to paste your entire biography into the opening message. Let the interview earn the details instead. One question creates focus, and your answers tell Claude where to go next.
Correct Claude immediately. Type or talk, “That is close, but the real issue is…” and finish the sentence. This is where the conversation becomes useful. The model gets a sharper picture, while you hear the distinction in your own language.
Ask Claude to produce the Unstuck Plan as a clean document.
Copy it into the app where you already keep important work, where you write the most, then put the scheduled action on your calendar before closing the tab.
Your artifact may reveal that the “career problem” is one overdue conversation. Or a broad health goal becomes an appointment booked for 9:00 tomorrow morning, because clarity finally moved from an intention into the calendar.
The plan only needs to move one real piece of your life.
That is enough, because at least you didn’t just add another post to your bookmarks folder.
Turn one good conversation into a repeatable skill
This exercise gives you one focused session and one finished artifact. The deeper skill is learning how to brief Claude, add the right context, steer a wandering response, and turn a conversation into work you can use.
That’s what we are practicing inside the Claude Fundamentals Sprint, starting Monday, July 20, 2026.
The cart is open now, so claim your seat.
Before you bookmark this article, give Claude 30 minutes and make the plan. If that first useful artifact changes the way you see AI, come spend next week learning the rest of the moves with us.
Such a great article.