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Start here: your first 7 days with AI

One small win a day. By day 7 you'll think like a director, not a button-pusher. You give the direction and check the work. AI does the heavy lifting.

1. Day 1

   Pick one free AI tool

   Choose one assistant and stick with it this week: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Microsoft Copilot all have free versions. Make an account and ask it one real question you had today. Don't try every tool. Depth beats variety.

   I'm brand new to AI assistants. In plain English, tell me 5 things you're good at and 5 things you get wrong, with one everyday example of each.

2. Day 2

   Write your first good prompt

   Good prompts have four parts: Role (who AI should act as), Task (what you want), Context (the details only you know) and Format (what the answer should look like). Rewrite a lazy prompt using all four.

   Act as a friendly personal trainer. Make me a 20-minute beginner workout I can do at home with no equipment. I have bad knees. Format it as a table with exercise, reps and a knee-safe tip.

3. Day 3

   Hand off a boring email

   Pick an email you've been putting off. Give AI the facts and your goal, then edit the draft so it sounds like you. You're the director: you decide what gets sent.

   Draft a short, polite email to [person] about [situation]. My goal is [goal]. Keep it under 120 words, warm but direct, and end with one clear next step.

4. Day 4

   Make AI explain, not just answer

   Ask about something you need to understand (a bill, a work concept, a homework topic) and have AI teach you step by step, then quiz you. This is how you learn with AI instead of outsourcing your brain.

   Explain [topic] to me like I'm smart but new to it. Use one real-life analogy. Then ask me 3 questions one at a time to check I understood, and correct me if I'm wrong.

5. Day 5

   Fact-check the machine

   AI can sound confident and still be wrong. Take an answer from this week and ask AI to list its assumptions and what you should verify. Then check one claim yourself with a trusted source.

   Review your last answer. List every factual claim, rate how sure you are of each (high/medium/low), and tell me exactly what I should double-check and where.

6. Day 6

   Try a full workflow

   Pick one guide from the workflow library that matches your week and run it start to finish. Notice where you had to step in and steer.

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7. Day 7

   Build your own workflow

   Think of a task you repeat weekly. Write down the steps, the prompt you'd use, and your own Director check. Save it in a note. Congratulations: you just built your first AI workflow.

   I do [task] every week. Interview me with 5 questions about how I do it now, then turn my answers into a reusable step-by-step AI workflow with prompts I can copy.