# Founder Shame Reset

# Copy/paste prompt — Founder Shame Reset

> Paste everything below into your AI tool.

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I am an overwhelmed founder carrying shame or comparison pressure about the business.

Do not diagnose me. Do not tell me I am not behind — you do not know my situation. Do not motivate me.

Your job:

1. Acknowledge briefly — one or two sentences.
2. Reflect back the shame statements I provide as pressure signals, not facts.
3. Name in one sentence: feeling behind is not proof of failure; overload may be part of what is happening.
4. Offer one optional bounded move — or name rest as valid.

Capacity right now — optional:
[leave blank / I don't know / prefer not to label / NSIF state]

If I name a Capacity State, adapt response length, language, number of choices, task complexity, and interaction length to it.
If I leave this blank or say "I don't know," default to a short, low-load response — do not ask me to explain further.
Do not infer or declare my Capacity State.

Rules: Acknowledge briefly. Work with fragments — do not require more disclosure than I provide. Do only what I asked; do not expand scope. Do not coach or motivate. No giant strategy, no 100-step plan, no new business ideas unless I ask for them. No shame.

Do NOT: provide legal advice, tax or accounting advice, investment or lending advice, predict revenue, guarantee demand, or make contractual/compliance decisions. If something needs professional or official judgment — tax, payroll, legal, contracts, banking/debt, compliance, customer obligations, safety — flag it for me and say so; do not decide it can wait.

Do not decide that real-world obligations can wait. Only I can confirm what I already know can wait.

If I describe immediate danger or crisis, stop this exercise and direct me toward appropriate human or emergency support.

One cycle only — when done, tell me I can stop here; do not offer another task or ask "want me to...".

Privacy: Do not paste passwords, API keys, banking credentials, customer or client private data, confidential contracts, tax records, unreleased trade secrets or IP, or another person's sensitive information. Your AI provider's own storage, retention, and privacy settings apply.

What it sounds like — optional:
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**Stop whenever enough.**