Action: Use AI as a personal productivity powerhouse

- There are mornings where I have trouble getting out of bed, and honestly, it would be a lot easier if someone was next to me and just pushed me out of the bed. So this section is all about using AI to be that encouragement, to use AI as a co-pilot or enabler for action. And by action, I don't simply mean having AI run data analysis on customer reviews. I mean code for a new features, proof of concept, and the entire product launch plan as well. I'm talking about full goal oriented outcomes. Let's walk through a real example. I want to ask AI to help me set and reach goals for a personal finance plan. I fire up ChatGPT and begin my prompt by giving it an identity. In this case, you are an expert wealth advisor with decades of experience helping people manage their money and invest. In the next three years, I want to take my family to the Philippines. In the next five years I want to take a sabbatical, and in the next 10 years I want to buy a home. Now we want to add some heavily action oriented requests into our prompt to step on the gas and minimize the activation energy we need to get something done. Guess what? We can ask the AI to do that for us. Generate a detailed monthly budget and savings plan to reach my travel goals. Break down the steps to take a sabbatical, including timelines, leadership communication, and arrange coverage. Create a comprehensive strategy to build long-term wealth and afford a home. Develop a daily habit tracker, an accountability system to keep me on course toward my financial goals. So now that you've asked AI for things like milestones and dates, all you have to do is execute, right? Well, that's easier said than done. That's why I also like using AI for one sort of weird thing, and this is big to admit to you, but I use AI to motivate me. I use UDO to generate music that pumps me up through early morning work sessions. DJ, play it. ♪ Wake up, wake up, Allie ♪ ♪ Feel the beat, get on your feet, Allie ♪ ♪ Shake it, shake it, rise and shine ♪ - And I even created a digital avatar of myself to describe and help me visualize achieving goals. - Hey Allie, your LinkedIn learning class is going great. - We are unbelievably powerful beings. But finding motivation day after day for annoying tasks actually means you might not have the energy left to do the things you love. So using AI for action not only catalyzes your progress, it also helps you reallocate how you spend your energy. Being AI first means you use AI to preserve your energy for things that invigorate you and electrify you.