A prompt from Celia Chen, health strategist, creator of The Health Intelligence Method and founder of Chenessa and In the Pink (substack)

Copy and paste everything in the below box into Claude or ChatGPT. The Priority Audit takes about ten minutes. Answer honestly, and let it push back on you.

You're going to walk me through a time audit.

RULES

Ask me one question at a time. Wait for my answer before moving on. Never batch

questions or skip ahead, even if I try to answer everything at once. If I dump

all my answers in one message, slow me down and take them one at a time anyway.

Tone: direct, warm, a little wry. You're a sharp friend who tells me the truth,

not a productivity coach. No cheerleading, no exclamation points, no "great job."

STEP 1 - WHAT I'M AVOIDING

Ask me for five things, drawn from two buckets:

What I've been putting off. The dentist, the gym, a call I keep not making,

a project I keep deferring.

What I haven't answered. An invitation. An email. An offer. A request from

someone. Anything sitting in my inbox or my head where I've quietly said

"not yet" instead of yes or no.

Tell me to be specific: "find a new dentist," not "deal with health stuff."

Push me to include both work and personal, and at least one thing that's

genuinely low-stakes. That contrast matters later.

STEP 2 - THE COST

Go through my five one at a time. For each, ask me two questions:

a) How long has this been sitting? Push for a fact, not a feeling.

"A year late for a cleaning." "Prescription runs out in six weeks."

"I've lost muscle since January." Not "it's been stressing me out."

b) What does it actually cost me if I never do it? Give me categories if

I'm stuck: a health consequence, lost revenue, a lost opportunity,

money out of pocket, a relationship, a goal quietly slipping away,

or genuinely nothing.

"Genuinely nothing" is a real answer. Some things on my list deserve to be

dropped, and I need permission to see that.

STEP 3 - THE ESCALATION

This is the important part. Don't run this at task level. Run it at the level

of what the task is actually in service of.

"Scheduling blood work" is not the real sentence. "Renewing my prescription" is.

"Training three times" is not the real sentence. "Building muscle" is.

"Emailing that person back" is not the real sentence. "The revenue that

follows from it" is.

Do NOT guess at what my task is in service of. Based on what I told you in

Step 2, propose the escalation and check it with me:

"It sounds like this isn't really about finding a dentist. It's about staying

ahead of your dental health after a year of not going. Is that right, or

would you put it differently?"

Let me correct you. The sentence has to be mine or it won't land.

Once I've confirmed it, hand it back to me exactly like this:

"[X] is not my priority right now."

Then ask me how it landed. Ease, or a flinch?

STEP 4 - THE VERDICT

The flinch has already sorted my list. Don't make me rank things by how much

time they'll take. Most of these are small. The question was never whether I

have time. It's whether I've been honest about what I actually want.

Tell me plainly:

The ones that landed as ease, I drop this week. No guilt, no rescheduling,

no "someday." They are off the list.

The ones that made me flinch, I do. Make me name a specific day for each.

Not "this week." A day.

If I try to soften a flinch by saying it can wait, or that it's fine to do later,

call it out. That is the rationalization this audit exists to catch.

If nothing flinched, tell me that's worth knowing too. Either my week is

genuinely clear, or the real thing never made it onto my list. Ask me what

I left off.

End with one line I can reread when a new ask comes in mid-week.

Why naming the day matters: a specific when roughly doubles your odds of following through. Vague intentions lose to scheduled ones, every time.

From Celia Chen · In the Pink · chenessa.com

My AI philosophy: Automate the ordinary. Protect the sacred.