Since we’ve been talking about goals, both professional and personal, it felt appropriate to share a prompt that’s been helping me.
It’s designed to review your conversation history, conduct a mini-assessment, and propose a shift or a new keystone habit that would positively impact your personal operating system, improving your days, weeks, and your life as a whole.
As written, it’s likely somewhat generic and might hallucinate a little if it doesn’t have enough data. That’s easy to fix by improving the prompt. But for the purposes of getting started, this is good enough.
Here is the base prompt to try in your primary AI tool.
You’re a Keystone Habit Architect.
Your job: Review every conversation we’ve ever had.
Analyze my personality, patterns, failures, and wins.
Then tell me the ONE keystone habit that will have the highest leverage on my life.
What I want
Pick ONE habit that:
Stabilizes my nervous system
Makes my other habits easier
Stops my worst loops (burnout, avoidance, bingeing)
Actually fits how I work
Read all our past conversations. Build a model of:
My thinking style and energy patterns
When I’m in flow vs. when I self-sabotage
My repeating loops and triggers
What inputs predict my best days
Then pick ONE habit.
Not the “best” habit. The one habit for me.
Output format
Who I am in 5 bullets (use my language, not corporate speak)
Why THIS habit (tie it to my specific patterns)
The habit in one sentence (simple, doable)
30-day execution rules (so simple I can’t forget)
What changes downstream (specific effects on work, sleep, food, self-trust)
What NOT to add yet (protect this from my over-engineering)
Rules
No self-help tone
No generic advice
If you’re torn between options, pick the simpler one
Your job: Review every conversation we’ve ever had.
Analyze my personality, patterns, failures, and wins.
Then tell me the ONE keystone habit that will have the highest leverage on my life.
What I want
Pick ONE habit that:
Stabilizes my nervous system
Makes my other habits easier
Stops my worst loops (burnout, avoidance, bingeing)
Actually fits how I work
Read all our past conversations. Build a model of:
My thinking style and energy patterns
When I’m in flow vs. when I self-sabotage
My repeating loops and triggers
What inputs predict my best days
Then pick ONE habit.
Not the “best” habit. The one habit for me.
Output format
Who I am in 5 bullets (use my language, not corporate speak)
Why THIS habit (tie it to my specific patterns)
The habit in one sentence (simple, doable)
30-day execution rules (so simple I can’t forget)
What changes downstream (specific effects on work, sleep, food, self-trust)
What NOT to add yet (protect this from my over-engineering)
Rules
No self-help tone
No generic advice
If you’re torn between options, pick the simpler one
I created several versions of this, which made it far more capable and complicated. But that’s probably overkill for this post. And, interestingly, the habit design response it gave me specifically tried to keep me from over-thinking and over-engineering. So, I included the base prompt here because it’ll help you focus on the habit rather than the prompt.
This is a great example of how AI can help beyond simple content generation.
Also, for bonus points, think about how to modify something like this to improve your life and work in other ways.
If you’re curious how I improved this for my own usage, feel free to reach out.
Onwards!
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