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Quick WinYour First Five MinutesOpen a free AI tool (Chapter 3 will compare them — for now, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini will all work). Type this, filling in the bracket:"Write a friendly out-of-office email reply. I'll be out [NUMBER] days. For urgent...

Quick WinThe Task AuditTake ten minutes and write down the five tasks that eat the most time in your typical week. Be specific: not "email," but "writing replies to routine scheduling requests." Not "meetings," but "turning my meeting notes into minutes."Now mark each...

Quick WinThe Permission QuestionToday, find out what your company's position on AI tools is. Three places to look, in order: (1) search your employee handbook or intranet for "AI" or "artificial intelligence," (2) ask your manager, or (3) email IT. Here's a message...

Quick WinThe Before-And-After TestPick one real (non-confidential) writing task from your week. Run it twice:Round 1: Ask lazily, one vague sentence. "Write an email reminding people about the potluck."Round 2: Ask with the framework — role, goal, context,...

Quick WinThe Five-Minute Style GuideOpen a blank document. Pick the person whose voice you write in most often — your executive, or yourself. Without looking at any emails, write down five things you know about how they communicate: typical length, greeting, sign-off,...

Quick WinThe Nervous EmailSomewhere on your to-do list is an email you've been putting off because the wording is delicate. You know the one.Write the blunt version — just say the true thing, no diplomacy, two or three sentences. Then ask your AI tool: "Rewrite this...

Quick WinThe Time-Zone TableTake a real multi-zone meeting you need to schedule (or invent one: Dallas, Berlin, Tokyo). Ask your AI tool for the workable 60-minute windows across all zones in a table, favoring one city's mornings.Check one row against an online...

Quick WinResurrect a MeetingFind your notes from a recent meeting — the messier, the better the demonstration. Run the core prompt: clean minutes, the standard sections, the don't-invent clause.Read what comes back and check it against your memory. Note both halves of...

Quick WinDocument One Thing You KnowPick a procedure that exists only in your head — something a colleague would need if you were out sick tomorrow. Run the self-interview prompt and answer its questions in quick, casual fragments.Ten minutes later, you'll have an...

Quick WinRetire One FearPick your most haunted formula — the inherited one you've never understood — and paste it (just the formula) into your AI tool with: "Explain step by step in plain English, then tell me what would break it."Read the explanation twice. That cold...

Quick WinThe Checklist TestTake the next logistical task on your plate, however small — a visitor, a lunch, a meeting that needs a room and a dial-in. Before doing anything, ask AI for the full checklist, organized by timeline, including commonly forgotten items.Count...

Quick WinThree Versions of the Touchy OneTake a real internal message you need to send that has any political charge at all — a reminder, a nudge, an announcement with a groan factor. Ask for three versions: light-touch, standard, and firm, each under 100 words, all...

Quick WinYour Red-Line CardTake ten minutes and make your personal data-safety card — a sticky note or a phone note, your choice. Three sections: (1) my company's approved tools (look up the policy or send the ask-IT email today), (2) the Never List in your own...

Quick WinCatch It YourselfBuild your immunity in ten minutes: ask your AI tool five detailed questions about something you know deeply — your hometown, your hobby, the TV show you can quote. Push into specifics: dates, names, episode details, prices.Somewhere in those...

Quick WinDraw Your Own LinesTake five minutes and write your personal "not this one" list — five tasks from your specific job you're deciding, right now, to always handle yourself. Be concrete: not "HR stuff," but "drafting anything that goes in someone's personnel...

Quick WinStart the Wins LogOpen a new document right now and title it "AI Wins." Write the first entry from something you've already done while reading this book — the nervous email you finally sent, the haunted formula you decoded, the procedure you documented. One...

Quick WinThe Free-Money AuditSpend ten minutes finding out what AI your company already pays for. Two steps: (1) in your main office software — Outlook, Word, Teams, Gmail, Docs — look for an AI or assistant button you've been ignoring; (2) send IT a one-line note:...

QUICK WIN: SCHEDULE DAY ONE Don't let this roadmap become a someday. Open your calendar right now and put "AI — Week 1: set up and play" on a specific, real day this week — ideally tomorrow. Block fifteen minutes. That's all Week 1 needs to begin. A plan with a date...