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Personal Learning Plan

Plan how you'll learn a new skill in the time you actually have, with weekly practice tasks, ways to get feedback and milestones you can check off.

Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini9 of 20 in Productivity promptsUpdated 18 Oct 2026
  • productivity
  • planning
  • analysis
  • intermediate

The prompt

Prompt · 4 blanksBlanks in capitals
Make me a plan to learn a skill on my own, sized to the time I really have. It's for me, not for a manager or a course.

Use this:
- The skill and why I want it: SKILL AND GOAL
- Where I'm starting from: CURRENT LEVEL
- The time I can give it: TIME AVAILABLE
- Budget and resources I already have: RESOURCES (optional)

Write:
1. A target: what I'll be able to do by the end, stated as something I can show (e.g. "write a query that answers a real question at work").
2. A week-by-week table: week, focus, practice task, time needed, and how I'll know it's done. The total must fit TIME AVAILABLE.
3. Three ways to get feedback (a person, a self-test, a real task) and when to use each.
4. Three milestones to check off, spread across the plan.
5. Up to five resources, free ones first, each with what to use it for.
6. What to do if I fall a week behind: what to drop and what to keep.

Rules:
- At least half the time goes on doing, not reading or watching.
- Don't invent course names or links. If you're not sure a resource exists, describe the kind instead, e.g. "a free SQL practice site".
- If the goal doesn't fit the time, say so and offer a smaller goal.
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Fill in the blanks

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Example

SKILL AND GOAL
SQL, so I can pull my own reports at work instead of waiting for the data team
CURRENT LEVEL
Comfortable with Excel pivot tables; never written a query
TIME AVAILABLE
30 minutes on weekdays for 8 weeks
RESOURCES
No budget; read-only access to a test database at work

How to use it

  1. Fill in the blanks above, or paste the prompt into your AI chat and replace the words in capitals there. How blanks work
  2. Save it to your library to use it again. Your copy keeps the blanks, so next time you only fill them in.
  3. Use it where you chat. With the Save My Prompts extension, pick the prompt inside ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and fill the blanks there.

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