Five-Minute Prep for Any Meeting

Your next meeting starts in three minutes. You open the invite. It says "Sync with Dana." You know it's important. You do not know what you last decided, what you promised to send, or why Dana booked thirty minutes instead of fifteen. So you skim the email thread, lose the plot halfway down, and walk in saying "remind me where we left off."

You do this for most of your meetings. Not because you're disorganized, but because prep is ad hoc. Every time, you reconstruct context from scratch, by hand, under time pressure. The work is real, but it leaves nothing behind.

The fix isn't a better calendar or a tidier inbox. It's one prep prompt you write once and reuse before every meeting, forever.

#Why one prompt beats many templates

People who want to prep better usually go looking for templates: a sales-call template, a 1:1 template, a kickoff template. Then they have twelve templates and use none, because choosing the right one is its own small task you skip when you're rushed.