Meredith's Husband: 0:24

Order matters.

Meredith: 0:25

Order matters.

Meredith's Husband: 0:27

Order matters. Something I tend to learn repeatedly. I learn probably every week. It's especially true with SEO. It's a it's kind of a step. This is why I have leaned more towards mentoring rather than just courses.

Meredith: 0:40

Yeah.

Meredith's Husband: 0:41

People take courses and they kind of jump to what they think they need.

Meredith: 0:43

Yes.

Meredith's Husband: 0:44

But the order which you do things, it can save you a vast amount of time. Yeah. Like a vast amount of time. But I'm not going to talk about SEO today. This is more about just kind of in general, other things.

Meredith: 0:56

Oh.

Meredith's Husband: 0:57

Because this is this is why I learn it repeatedly. I got my SEO order down. I know how to do that stuff. It's other things that I tend to learn this lesson over and over. So you remember a few episodes ago, I encouraged people to one of their goals for 2026 is to make AI like your personal assistant.

Meredith: 1:17

Yes.

Meredith's Husband: 1:18

Okay. So some people have asked about that and asked for a little bit of clarification. But what I meant really was more like your strategic assistant. Not necessarily like do this for me and do that for me and automate this, but your strategic assistant to help you decide what things to do. Not so it helps you do things. Like I'm it's going to help you, I don't know, write your title tags. Okay. Right. Okay. But should you be writing your title tags today or next week or in a month? Okay. That sort of thing. It's probably a crappy example. But this is something that AI can do really well. It's one of its strengths, I think. For me, what I do is I explain to AI a goal, something I want to achieve, but that I don't know how to achieve. Okay. I'm not, I'm not, I'm good with ideas.

Meredith: 2:09

Yeah.

Meredith's Husband: 2:09

I'm not so good at following through.

Meredith: 2:11

This is what I think I don't know what that means. Whoa, whoa, stop the tracks.

Meredith's Husband: 2:15

I know. This is where AI has been really helpful to me. Breaking things down into little steps and putting those steps in an order that makes sense so you build momentum early, as early as possible, and you actually can get through to completion. And for me, perhaps even more importantly, the things that I don't want to do.

Meredith: 2:34

Yes.

Meredith's Husband: 2:35

My AI assistant now, when it it gives me lists of things to do, it says, by the way, don't do this and don't do that. And make sure you don't do this other thing. When you have done this, you're done. Stop. Move on. Wow. So anyway, I just little side note.

Meredith: 2:52

That's good to know.

Meredith's Husband: 2:53

And that has, for me, probably mm had the single biggest impact on my life as a result of AI. Like, yes, AI helps helps do all sorts of tasks and make you more productive and do more things faster, et cetera, et cetera. But that doesn't really change my the quality of my life as much as having AI as a strategic partner like this.

Meredith: 3:17

Okay.

Meredith's Husband: 3:17

So that was kind of that's a little deeper insight into what I was talking about when I said try to take 2026 and and and use this year to turn AI into your assistant. This is what I meant. Your strategic assistant. Help you do things, help you decide what to do, what not to do, et cetera. So do you know if people are using AI this way? So I mean I'm sure some people are like, yes, no, duh, you're just starting that now.

Meredith: 3:41

Yeah, but I don't know. I don't know. People use it for such different reasons.

Meredith's Husband: 3:45

Yeah, and then some people I feel are probably just still beginning the process. I don't really know. But this has been so helpful to me that I wanted, I put a little lesson together and I created a prompt. If you've never done anything like this, I created a prompt where you can just copy and paste and then try it out. If you've never done it, I think it'll be very helpful. But anyway, I created a little lesson with the prompt. I'm going to play that lesson. This is on my blog. It's free. It's not a paid course. I'm going to play that lesson now. If you're interested, then I'll give you the link below and you can go get the prompt.

Meredith: 4:16

Okay. Okay. I'm excited.

Meredith's Husband: 4:18

It's only 37 minutes. I'm just kidding. It's four and a half. Hey guys, Meredith's husband here. So I created this lesson here. I created a prompt that is going, that helps me anyway create a strategy, a strategy for anything I want to accomplish, really. Something I'm working on, something I'm trying to do, whether it's a you know short task or a longer task, something that is typically going to involve more than a single step, and also something that has a timeline. Something I want to accomplish by a certain date or a certain time. What this prompt will do is it's going to take your objective, it's going to ask you some questions, it's going to give you a very specific timeline and the steps that you want to take to achieve that goal. Okay, so I use this thing all the time. I use it for small tasks and bigger tasks. And what I have found is that AI specifically is really good at this for a number of a couple of reasons. Number one, it is good at creating that specific plan with actual steps. I'm not very good at that, to be honest. A lot of times I have an idea, I know what I want to do, but I don't know how to break that down into actionable steps and then assign a timeline to that. I'm just not very good at that. AI is really good at that. It's also good at brainstorming, helps me think outside the box a little bit. So this is at literally how I begin every single day. It's how I structure my work days. It used to be years ago that my days were basically dictated by, you know, my inbox. Whatever somebody needed, that's what I would be working on. Then I shifted, I started to shift away from that. And I used more of a journal method to keep track of things I wanted to do, had added a little more structure to my day. That worked really well. And now AI has taken that and it's basically put that process like on steroids. If you have not tried this, this prompt is, I think, a really good way to get you started. And if you are interested, if that's like sounds like something that you might use, click below, get the prompt, paste it into a new chat. Make sure it's a new chat in whatever AI model you use, Chat GPT, Cloud, et cetera. Paste it into a new chat, it will immediately begin asking you some questions. Just answer those questions. I would say be as detailed as you possibly can be. The more information you give it, the better the result is going to be. And be very specific. I like to say that bad input is going to give you bad output. Same is true here. The better and more information you can you can feed into this system, the better the information that it's going to give back to you. And at the end of this process, which probably take 15 minutes or less, you'll have a step-by-step plan to help you achieve that goal, whatever it is you wanted to do. And then if you want to go deeper, then of course you can use AI to help you actually perform those steps. But the the goal here with this prompt is just to get that strategy outlined. But keeping especially ChatGPT focused and concise, I have found sometimes to be an issue. ChatGPT, one of its strengths is that it's very creative. That's all it can be a disadvantage sometimes if you're not looking for, say, new ideas. Okay. So the most important thing right now is when you read those questions, be very honest in your response. Don't answer the way that you think you should be answering. Don't ask follow-up questions that you think you should be asking. Really be honest about what it is that you want to achieve and what challenges you're facing. Uh, you're going to get much better results that way. What do you think? Would you find that helpful?

Meredith: 7:42

Yes.

Meredith's Husband: 7:43

Do you do you already use AI? Do you use Chat GPD in that way?

Meredith: 7:47

Well, I just began using it that way.

Meredith's Husband: 7:50

All right. Well, this is this is if if you're in that stage or you haven't begun, this is a great beginning.

Meredith: 7:56

I believe it.

Meredith's Husband: 7:57

Well, hopefully you're very good with organizing eye opening. Yeah. No, I am not. That's through this prompt.

Meredith: 8:03

Yes, but you're good at creating things to help you be that I am good at. Organized. That's what's impressive. So uh yeah, I would definitely use this.

Meredith's Husband: 8:15

Would you? I do. I do every day. All right. If you want it, check out the link below. It's free. I hope it helps.