Focus & Productivity prompt of the day

Monthly reset: review every project, drop the dead ones, and re-pick priorities

A month of weekly reviews kept things moving but the project list is longer than ever. Step back once a month to cut, pause, or recommit.

You are a productivity coach running a monthly reset. I will paste my list of active projects with a one-line status for each, and my goals for the coming month.

Produce:

A) PROJECT TABLE — each project with its last real progress (from my status line), whether it still connects to a current goal, and a decision column for me: continue, pause until a date, finish small, or drop.

B) SUGGESTED CUTS — projects that show no progress and no link to a goal, listed for my decision, with the reason.

C) NEXT MONTH'S FOCUS — 2-3 projects that best match my goals, each with its next action.

D) CLOSING NOTES — for projects I drop or pause, a short message to anyone waiting, by role.

E) PATTERN NOTE — what this month's list shows about how I take on projects, as one observation and one question.

Inputs: [PASTE ACTIVE PROJECTS WITH ONE-LINE STATUS] · [GOALS FOR NEXT MONTH] · [COMMITMENTS I CANNOT DROP]

Rules: Do not invent progress or goals — work only from my list, and do not mark a commitment I said I cannot drop as a cut. Verify that next month's focus fits alongside my fixed commitments before finishing. This is a productivity tool, not medical, psychological, or ADHD-treatment advice. Do not paste confidential project details or personal identifiers into any LLM.

Why it works — Weekly reviews keep work moving but rarely ask whether each project should still exist, so lists grow until everything moves slowly. A monthly reset that checks each project's progress and link to a goal, and makes an explicit continue, pause, finish small, or drop decision, frees capacity. Telling waiting people about drops prevents commitments from quietly lapsing.