The most expensive ten minutes of your week.
Most senior professionals waste their best ten minutes on the wrong question. Not on a hard task, on the unstructured "where am I?" before the first real task of the day.
You arrive at your desk. You open the laptop. You look at the calendar. You scroll the inbox. You glance at three notifications. You re-read a message from Friday. You walk to refill the coffee. By the time you actually do the work you opened the laptop to do, ten of your sharpest minutes are already gone.
The fix is unglamorous.
One workflow that recovers them.
Open a new Claude window, yes, every morning. Paste the same prompt every day. Use placeholders, never real names.
"Here is what I have on my plate this week. Tell me, in one paragraph each: (1) the single most important task to do first today, (2) the one decision I am avoiding, (3) the one thing I should ignore until Wednesday."
Then read it. Pick one. Start.
That is the whole workflow. It is not clever. It does not need to be. It replaces ten minutes of low-focus scrolling with two minutes of structure and eight minutes of actual work. Most weeks, that is the most valuable trade you make.
And one warning
I keep seeing it in the wrong rooms. Someone copies the email, the real one, with the client's name in it, into the prompt window. Do not do this. Use placeholders. Strip names. Strip account numbers. Strip anything you would not say out loud at a conference. The recap will still work. The relationship will survive. Your professional judgment will stay yours.
That is everything for this week.
Read one thing. Try one workflow. Ignore the rest.