Hi

I'm going to share several random stuff (tips) with you today below. I've taken off a couple of days because, as I said, my "New Year" begins on Thursday (technically today but not until I wake up later). 

Before we begin, just an FYI I'll be back tomorrow at midnight with a limited to 48 hours PLR that was a requested topic - and it's so good!

Also, there are a few things you may want to check out: the Navigating Information Overload PLR by Tools for Motivation (Justin Popovic), the Dream It, Plan It, Do It: Setting Achievable Goals Toolkit PLR by JR Lang, and the Profitable Productivity Planner PLR by Sharyn Sheldon that launches today at some point for 60% off.

Let's dig into the tips and news now!

AI Planning - I had a 2-day planning session with my grown daughter and AI. It was so helpful. I started off feeling hopeless at first. I always tend to "fail" on my fiction and weight loss. When I started out working with AI, I told it my goals, asked it for a daily schedule and once I printed it out, it hit me - it was no different from all the other years. 

So I told it that. I said I needed a new approach. I'm the kind of person who, if I miss something, like let's say I didn't do a workout one day or didn't do the entire scheduled time, I end up giving up. I want a backwards approach that isn't so strict and defeatist. 

AI gave me "buckets to fill" so to speak. I have a 2025 success sheet I'm filling out each day and placing in a binder. My ONLY goal is to look back on 2025 and feel good about what I did rather than be filled with regrets about what I failed on. So this sheet has things like mindfulness for eating, cleaning (I'm on a spring cleaning roll and it doubles as exercise), exercise, fiction, PLR, relaxation (I'm BAD about working 24/7 with tiny breaks rather than getting it done and having a big block of time for me), and finances. 

But that sounds normal, right? I just jot down what I DID do rather than have an area of things I didn't get done staring me in the face. But what I did next was amazing for me. 

For fitness/exercise, I don't just want minutes and activities. I needed something to aim for. Not a number on the scale, but a true target that will be fulfilling.

Mine was to be able to play golf with my son at the end of the year. I asked AI to act as both a pro golf trainer and physical therapist who specializes in athletes, middle aged people with knee issues and overweight individuals who want to play golf. Then I asked it to break down an incremental physical training/therapy program getting me from my current state to being able to walk uphill to a teebox or green, easily manage uneven terrain on a fairway, squat down to read a putting line, bend over without tipping due to my knee to retrieve or tee up a ball, etc. 

It was SO specific with my training! This month is easier - 15 min tread, 4 min vibration places, weighted ball torso twists, squats, knee lifts, ankle pumps - but it specifically added things like "shift your weight on the vibration plate to get used to uneven terrain and balancing" and "add a slight 1 increment incline this month to prepare yourself for an uphill climb to the teebox, and so on. 

It's our baseline month. Then we move on to stabilization and increased tolerance, golf specific movements, strength and stamina, outdoor terrain mobility and swing mechanics, low intensity golf sessions (driving range), endurance for longer sessions, slopes and golf cart transfers (I don't think that will be an issue but maybe on an incline), 9-hole rounds, frequency of play, and 18-hole full rounds.

So if fitness is one of your goals - I encourage you to have it plan for a specific activity you'd love to be able to do - marathon, gardening, tennis, walking Disney, whatever. I need to have AI make an image of me golfing for inspiration.

I had AI do this level of prep with me for my fiction business, PLR, cleaning routines, relaxation, etc. I did not ask for nutrition planning. Instead I asked for mindful eating assistance. I have printouts now of each category and what I'll be doing in order, but without times and minutes that make me feel pressure. 

Today went great even though I begin tomorrow - and I framed that AI pic of myself for my desk and I'm one step closer to being "her" after today. I did all my exercise, mindful eating, cleaning, etc. Didn't do business work though. 

Next - Regardless of what online business you're in, you NEED to start becoming a recommendation by AI to your consumers. My kids and I were talking about this. I never Google anymore usually. Instead, I first AI or TikTok to be honest. 

TikTok has so many good real personal recommendations. I then usually take that info over to AI and ask for truth, expanded insight, research, and so on. But read this article about how people are now preferring to get book recommendations. 

She's right! I trust AI more than a booktok influencer who might be sponsored or just flawed in thinking. I can precisely tell AI what I want or whose work I want it to be like and it nails it. 

More people will be using AI to search. So ask AI how you can become the go to recommendation for whatever it is you do. It'll give you a list - ask for an action plan to achieve each one. 

Another FYI - there was a pretty good selling author on Amazon (someone said top #6 in her category) who accidentally left some AI content in her book. So you know how if you're using the top version of ChatGPT it'll say something like "Thought for 13 seconds?" Well she not only left that in there but also the part of AI's response where it said, "Certainly! Here's an enhanced version of your passage, making Elena more relatable and injecting humor while providing a brief description of Grigori. Changes are highlighted in bold for clarity." 

If you use AI for editing and enhancements, be sure to not just use the copy function because it'll add all of that response. And even if she reread her work, sometimes your mind glosses over things because you know what you expect to see. 

She's definitely lost a lot of support and readers but she responded that she used it for editing and proofing. Big backlash in that genre of romance. She has 185 self published books, so now everyone thinks AI did all of them even if they didn't - who knows? I don't know who it is. 

She has tons of good reviews. I love the writing process. I don't mind using AI to proof - it's no different from Grammarly or even a human editor for typos. It's also good to advise you on things like pacing, plot holes, etc. But try to remedy as much as possible on your own before using AI as a crutch. 

Tiff :)