You have saved prompts. A folder of them, or a note, or forty tabs. You have opened it maybe twice.
That is not a discipline problem. Most prompt lists are the same twelve prompts wearing different hats, so nothing in the folder feels worth choosing, and you go back to typing one liners. The saved list quietly becomes a place where good prompts go to be forgotten.
Forty five minutes and you will walk out with five prompts you will actually use, each stored where it belongs, plus the way to pick the right one by naming the job in front of you.
This is for anyone who collects prompts and never reuses them. Nothing technical. The hardest part is choosing five and leaving the rest.
The proof behind this
Liz Elliott runs 33 active social brands. A prompt she saved and reuses across all of them is worth far more than a clever one typed once and lost. She is not an engineer, and none of these need any technical skill.
What this lesson is
Lesson 4.5 of the free AI for Entrepreneurs course, in Module 4: Talking To AI.
Most prompt lists hand you forty prompts, and about twelve of them are the same prompt in a different hat. Three ways to say find the holes in my idea. Four ways to say make this shorter. This lesson is the deduplicated version. Every near copy has been cut, and what survived is nineteen prompts that each do a job no other one here does, grouped by job rather than by where they came from. Notice what they share. Almost every one opens with a Role, then a Context block you fill in, then Rules about what not to do, then a Format for what comes back. That is the five part shape from Part 17, already filled in for a job people do a lot. And nearly every one contains a line that forbids praise, because AI defaults to agreeing with you.
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Behind the paywall
All nineteen prompts in full, grouped into seven jobs
Testing an idea, getting unstuck, making writing land, turning mess into action, protecting your time, handling the hard stuff, and keeping control of what AI does
The one line add ons, and the line that resets a chat that has gone soft
Which three prompts can hand you confident invented numbers, and what to check
How to set a rhythm for the ones that repeat
The ten mistakes, and the checklist
What paid subscribers get overall
Paid subscribers get every part of AI for Entrepreneurs in full. Every numbered step, every prompt in a block you can copy, the mistakes list, and the checklist at the end. You also get the rest of the run as it goes out, and the whole paid archive on Liz on the Web.
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