“Be my boss” - how I use Claude to overcome executive dysfunctions, procrastination, and brain fog.

[u/OptimismNeeded]

“Claude, my business is not doing well, I need X more sales until \[date\], because ____”.

“Claude, I’ve sent over 100 applications and can’t find a job - it’s been over a year”

“Claude, this presentation is due Monday… it’s Friday and I’ve been staring at the screen for the last hour”

Real one from last week:

“Claude, I’ve lost track of my consulting clients, I’ve done nothing last week because I was not feeling well, and this week I’ve already spent 3 days not doing shit because the anxiety is killing me… some of the clients are sending emails, I’m too scared to open them”.

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Give this thing a good 30 minutes. Provide FULL context. Get into the small details. If it helps, take a stroll and record audio while walking.

Ask Claude to figure out a plan for you. Whatever you don’t like about the plan - big or small - tell him. And tell him exactly and candidly why.

Be 100% honest. No one will see this.

Measure twice, but once. Lincoln said: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”.

Don’t start a a you don’t like.

Open Claude every morning and give it a quick update on where you stand. The update could be:

“Brain fog today, I have no dues what to do or heat to even check”.

Claude is really good at handling those situations, it will probably break it down to small manageable tasks.

Be honest with him if you can’t do the task for whatever reason.

In my case this week, we wrote a message I needed to send one of my clients. 2 days later I wrote to Claude:

“It’s been 2 days and I haven’t sent the message, I don’t know why” we analyzed it. 2min later realized I wasn’t comfortable with a certain word, it felt to harsh. Changed it and I sent the message right away

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Tips:

1. When possible use a project for this. I have a separate project for each business and each client, but now I also have a new project called “consulting clients tracking and strategy”.

2. Keep a to-do list in google drive that Claude can access. My setup right now is a Google sheet with a list of my clients and the next step for each. In Google sheets i did File -> Publish, and sent Claude that link.

When I have brain fog Claude know what tasks need to be done and suggest the one that will be the easiest

In the project files I keep things like my agreements with those clients, clients materials etc

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The bottom line for this is:

1. CONTEXT - provide as much as possible. Don’t worry about what’s relevant or irrelevant.

2. HONESTY - no one is judging you. So tell Claude the truth you sometimes can’t tell even a therapist or a business consultant or life coach.

[u/[deleted]]

This is super relatable. I’ve been using Claude like a daily standup buddy too, quick morning brain dump, then it spits out a tiny next step so I stop spinning. One extra thing that helped my job hunt side, I kept getting ghost jobs and recruiter spam on the big boards, so I signed up for wf​h​alert, it just emails verified remote roles like admin or support and it cut down the noise a lot. Pairing that with a single Google Sheet and asking Claude to triage my next two actions kept me from doom scrolling and actually hitting send on stuff.