Set Your Real Work Hours

What you'll need

• The hours you actually want to work
• Any AI chat assistant

The steps

1. Decide honestly what hours you want to be reachable.
2. Paste the prompt and fill in the brackets.
3. Add the boundary to your email signature or auto-responder.
4. Hold the line for two weeks — it gets easier.

Help me set and communicate real working hours to clients and customers.

Hours I want to work: [e.g. 9am-5pm weekdays]
How people currently reach me: [email / text / phone]
What worries me about setting this boundary: [e.g. losing business, seeming unavailable]

Give me: a short line for my email signature stating my hours, a short auto-responder for messages outside those hours, and one honest reframe for my specific worry above.

Someone messaged me at 9pm expecting a quick reply. Write a kind way to acknowledge it without responding to the actual request until morning.

What you'll get

Clear working hours communicated in your signature and auto-responder — plus a way past the worry that's been stopping you.

If it's not quite right

• Worried clients will be upset? Add "Make the messaging extra reassuring that I'm still responsive."
• Need exceptions for urgent stuff? Add "Include how someone can reach me for a genuine emergency."