This exercise started at our kitchen table, the night my wife’s list hit a hundred things. Here’s how it worked for her — then do yours. Free, no email, nothing saved or sent.
How this works · 1 of 6
First, she wrote everything down.
All of it, raw — no order, no judging, nothing too small or too embarrassing. The only rule: it leaves her head and lands on paper, where it can’t circle anymore.
Then the whole mess went into the machine.
Every page, as-is, into AI — because organizing a hundred things is exactly the work you shouldn’t spend your energy on.
Try it yourself — paste this into ChatGPT or Claude
“Here is everything on my plate, exactly as I wrote it: [paste your list]. Categorize and sort it — create and name the right categories yourself. Tell me which three items most directly bring in revenue. Then lay it out in a clear workboard style — columns with headers — so I can see everything at a glance. Don’t drop or merge anything.”
Money makers
Small stuff
Later
And the sorting happened in front of her.
AI grouped it all and named the categories itself. Watch: everything finds a home — and only three things carry the money.
Then we could finally see it.
Laid out as a board, three things clearly drove the money. Those got her best hours. Everything else waited its turn — and nothing fell apart. That was the whole secret.
One thing to know: AI is a tool, not the solution.
Review what it gives you. Move things, question things, and be honest about what you’re seeing in your business. All this really does is make what’s in your head tangible — so you can do the real thinking: which of these is busy work, and which few truly deserve your focus.
That part was always yours.
And if you’d like a guide for the honest part — give me a ring.
Some piles are easier to face with a second set of eyes. Thirty minutes, free, no pitch — we look at your sort together and find your three. Or just do the exercise below; it takes about five minutes, and you’ll leave with tomorrow morning already decided.
Everything on your plate — big, small, overdue, someday. Don’t sort, don’t judge, don’t skip the embarrassing ones. And don’t stop early: if there are forty things, get all forty out. If there are a hundred, get the hundred. The bigger the pile, the better the sort feels.
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Step 2 of 3 · The one question
Which three of these actually pay you?
Ask it of each one: if this got skipped for a month, would the money notice? For most of the list, honestly — no. It can be figured out later. Tap the three where the answer is yes: the ones your revenue actually comes from.
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Step 3 of 3 · The sort
Here is where your best hours go.
The revenue three — these get your mornings
Everything you do gets one test: does it serve one of these?
The leftovers list — figured out later, or handed to tools
Not thrown away. Handled in the off-hours, batched, automated, or waiting for its season.
Your plan, on one card:
Tomorrow morning: your first 90 minutes go to . Before the inbox. Before everything.
What we’d do next together, if you wanted company: go through the figure-out-able pile the way we can’t here — because some of it is busy work in an urgent costume, and telling those apart is where a second set of eyes earns its keep. Then the harder questions: do you have help, and if not, do your prices fund getting some? What story are your numbers telling? That’s a conversation, not a form.