Module 0 · Worksheet

Your first win in five minutes.

One real email, triaged with one prompt, before this video ends. Save this page. Use it whenever a thread feels heavier than it needs to.

5 min

The contract. If this takes longer than five minutes, message Toni at al@antonilacki.com. He answers every one.

The prompt that runs the win

This works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. Use whatever you already have open. Tomorrow we pick one tool for thirty days. Today we just win.

The Prompt

Summarize this thread in 3 bullet points and tell me the one question I need to answer to move it forward. [paste the email thread below]

Where it goes

Open whatever AI you have. The prompt goes into the chat input field, then the email pastes below it. That is the whole setup.

claude.ai · chatgpt.com · gemini.google.com

Summarize this thread in 3 bullet points and tell me the one question I need to answer to move it forward.

[your email pastes here] |

Hit Enter. Wait three seconds. Read the output. Reply.

Do it now

Open whatever AI you have. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot. Any of them.

Open your inbox. Find the email you have been avoiding. The longer the thread, the better this works.

Paste the prompt above. Then paste the email body below it. Hit Enter.

Read the output. Reply. The win is the reply, not the prompt. Send something. Then come back to this page.

Three follow-ups that turn one prompt into four

Once the first prompt has run, drop one of these into the same chat. No new context needed. The AI already has the thread.

Follow-up · Reply draft

Now draft my reply. Keep it under 80 words. Match the tone of my last message in the thread.

Follow-up · Avoidance scan

Now flag what I am avoiding in this thread. The thing nobody is naming directly. Be blunt.

Follow-up · Team summary

Now turn this into a 3-line summary I can send to my team. No context, no preamble. Just the three lines.

Three variations for different threads

The base prompt works on most threads. These three variants handle the messier shapes you will hit this week.

Long thread, many open questions

Variant · Long thread

Summarize this thread in 5 bullet points. Then list the open questions in priority order. Then tell me what I need to do today.

Internal team thread

Variant · Team thread

Summarize this thread in 3 bullets. Tell me what was decided, what was deferred, and what is unresolved.

Cold sales email

Variant · Cold sales

Summarize this in 2 sentences. Tell me whether it is worth a 10-minute reply or worth archiving. Be honest.

Recall check

Write the answer in your own words. The act of typing it locks the lesson in. You will be reasked this in tomorrow's email.

What is the one prompt template you used in this module, and where else this week could it work?

Ready when you are.

Where this fits in The Setup

M0 is the win that earns the right to teach you the rest. Tomorrow we set Layer 1: the tool you commit to for the next thirty days.

First Win

Tool

Use Cases

Prompting

Voice

Verification

Cadence

Compounding

Stuck? Email Toni Back to the prompt