Day 7: Your daily ten minutes

The one idea

Everything this week becomes permanent through one small decision: which ten minutes, on which tasks, every workday. People who "tried AI once" plateau immediately. People with a tiny routine compound — each week the briefs get sharper, the checks get faster, and the range of tasks quietly grows.

Compare:

"I will use AI when something comes up." — nothing comes up; three months later they are the colleague asking you how you did that.

versus

"Every morning, AI summarises yesterday's unread threads while I make coffee. Every report I owe starts as an AI draft from my bullets. Ten minutes, daily, calendared."

Build yours now

Take the two tasks you named on Day 1. For each, write the exact routine: when it happens, what you paste or ask, which check you run (grade the summary; ship-check the draft). Attach it to something you already do daily — the first coffee, the inbox open. Then choose your next move: the free AI at Work Foundations course goes deeper on everything this week introduced — trust, privacy, briefs, and a personal task map — one five-minute lesson a day, with the same practice-and-review engine that made this week stick.

Try it now

Write the routine card: task one + trigger + check; task two + trigger + check. Put it where Day 4's sticky note lives. Then open your next lesson — Foundations picks up exactly here.

Your win today

You are no longer catching up. You have a daily practice, a checking habit, and a path — which is more than most of the office had a week ago.