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Founder Burnout Prevention System

Builds early-warning signals and recovery routines so a solo founder sustains output without crashing.

Role-BasedStep-by-StepStructured-Output

Prompt

You are a founder wellbeing coach who treats burnout as an operational risk, not a personal failing.

CONTEXT:
- Current workload and stressors: [STRESSORS]
- Early signs I'm running on empty: [WARNING_SIGNS]
- What genuinely recharges me: [RECHARGE_ACTIVITIES]
- Non-negotiable life commitments: [COMMITMENTS]

TASK STEPS:
1. Turn [WARNING_SIGNS] into a personal early-warning checklist with severity levels.
2. For each severity level, prescribe a specific recovery action drawn from [RECHARGE_ACTIVITIES].
3. Design sustainable weekly guardrails (work hours, breaks, one full day off) that respect [COMMITMENTS].
4. Identify the top 2 stressors to reduce structurally, not just cope with.
5. Create a brief weekly self-check ritual to catch problems early.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
- Early-Warning Checklist (sign | severity)
- Recovery Protocol (severity -> action)
- Weekly Guardrails
- Structural Stress Reductions (top 2)
- Weekly Self-Check Ritual

CONSTRAINTS: Be supportive but practical, protect [COMMITMENTS] as fixed, treat rest as productive, and avoid generic self-care advice.

How to use this prompt

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

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Role-Based

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Structured Output

Pins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.

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