I'm working out what to lead with for coaches. If you could hand one job to an AI assistant tomorrow, which would it be? Email triage. Replying to emails. Follow-up after a call. Notes from discovery calls. Posting content. Something else. Tell me the one that would give you back the most time, and what it costs you now.

When someone tells me how their week "usually" goes, I get a story. When I ask about the last time it happened, which day and what they opened first, I get what actually happened. Those are rarely the same thing, and the gap between them is where the real problem sits. So I made one page to keep beside me on discovery calls, with coaches, teachers, anyone who wants help with their week. It's attached: a square preview, then the full sheet (it prints on US Letter). The moves are adapted from Jake Van Clief's discovery drill, and the layout is ours. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 Step 2: "When was the last time it happened? Walk me through that one." Step 3: "Any other time it didn't work?" Ask it twice. Then say nothing. I've told yoga students for years that silence draws attention to your voice. On a call it does the same for theirs. It gives them room for the one they nearly kept back. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 Go in order, one to six. Write their cost in their exact words. Don't bring up AI or any tool; let them get there. Step 6 is only for someone who asked for help or showed you a real problem, and it has a blank where your own price goes. After the call, take two minutes: write "not asked" beside anything you skipped, because a blank reads as "no" next week. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗽 Without the page in front of me, I drift back into "so how does it usually go?" That's the whole reason it's one page. 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 On your next conversation with a client or student, swap one "usually" for "when was the last time?" and notice what changes in the answer. Which step would be hardest for you to say out loud?

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 Finish the sentence in the comments: "I know what I want to say, I just never ___." Some answers will be about time. Some will be about where to start. A few will be something I hadn't thought of. 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 One line only. No fixing it afterwards. What's yours? One line is plenty. Made with The Quiet Scribe team.

A simple one tonight.

One of the greatest benefits of learning AI isn’t just saving time or getting more done. It’s changing the way you approach challenges. Before, you might encounter something difficult and immediately think: “I don’t know how to do this.” But as you become more comfortable with AI, that thinking begins to shift. “I don’t know how to do this yet, but I can figure out how AI can help me.” Suddenly, unfamiliar tasks feel less intimidating. New ideas seem more achievable. Problems become opportunities to explore rather than obstacles to avoid. AI doesn’t have to replace your skills. It can give you the confidence to develop new ones. And that shift in mindset might be the most valuable return on AI education of all.