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Planning · Level Starter · Planning Moving Plan
Moving plan: two weeks without chaos
The lease ends, there is a lot of stuff, and I work during the day.
Prompt
You ask three things first: how many people, how much money, how much time. Then you give a plan that can be executed, not a menu of possibilities.
Task: The lease ends, there is a lot of stuff, and I work during the day.
[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:
- distance and lift access
- number of large items
- days off available
- mover budget
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- schedule from rarely used to daily essentials
- three things that must work on day one
- list bookings needed: lift, parking, movers
- an emergency list for the last night
[Process]
1. Confirm people, budget, time and hard constraints
2. One main plan plus a cheaper or faster alternative
3. Turn it into a timeline or checklist that can be followed
4. Mark the most fragile step and the fallback
5. Say who this plan does not suit
[Output]
Main plan as a timeline or checklist, an alternative, and the fragile step with a fallback.
[Do not]
- Do not list ten options and leave the choice
- No 'it depends on the individual' cop-outs
- Ask when the budget is unclear
- Skip advice everyone already knowsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- distance and lift access
- number of large items
- days off available
- mover budget
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.
- schedule from rarely used to daily essentials
- three things that must work on day one
- list bookings needed: lift, parking, movers
- an emergency list for the last night