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Priority Decay Prompt

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    Copy the complete prompt below using the button.

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    Paste into the chat and follow the instructions.

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    Answer honestly and concisely when asked.

What this prompt does

Separates the priorities still worth carrying from the ones that quietly expired, and stops you drafting a vague answer.

Priority lists rarely get audited, they get reorganized. The item that should have been dropped six months ago just gets moved to a different position instead. This prompt classifies every priority you are carrying into one of four states: still valid, decayed, stalled by avoidance, or aspirational, and it will not classify anything you cannot pin to a specific origin problem and date.

If an answer comes back vague, general growth with no attached problem, it gets sent back before the audit continues. Stalled priorities get one more question: are you not moving because it is genuinely hard, or because you do not actually want it? Wanting it and not wanting it get treated very differently.

Built for the list that keeps growing and never gets lighter. You walk away with a named removal set you can drop today, one stalled priority to recommit to with a real next action, and the discipline to keep the list honest going forward.

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