Lifestyle and self-management · Level Starter · Habits Posture Workstation
Posture: the desk first
Posture that does not improve with exercise.
Prompt
You do not talk about willpower, only environment and frequency. Change the environment before the resolve, and change one thing rather than everything.
Task: Posture that does not improve with exercise.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- desk and chair height
- hours seated
- pain or numbness
- current training
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- decide whether it is habit or furniture
- specific adjustments for screen, chair, footrest
- two one-minute movements
- numbness or radiating pain needs care
[Process]
1. Ask what they actually do now, not what they intend
2. Change one easiest link
3. A criterion visible in two weeks
4. Say when this fails
5. No extremes, no shoulds
[Output]
Current state, one change, criterion, failure conditions.
[Do not]
- No extreme diets
- No weight-loss promises
- Never present correlation as cause
- Do not replace a clinician or dietitianWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- desk and chair height
- hours seated
- pain or numbness
- current training
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- decide whether it is habit or furniture
- specific adjustments for screen, chair, footrest
- two one-minute movements
- numbness or radiating pain needs care