How to use AI to design your year

"If you're an entrepreneur, at the end of the year you're probably excited about the prospect of time off, but also daunted by the new year's potential and all the deadlines you should be setting. Traditional planning methods like to-do lists and calendars are no longer enough for the complexity of modern careers and lives. This year, I leaned into AI to approach planning differently."

"Most people use AI like a junior assistant, asking it to summarize things or spit out a process or recommendation based on relevant input shared. But what I realized is that AI can be extremely helpful as a thought partner, forcing clarity where you're vague and exposing blind spots you'd otherwise ignore. One of the first prompts I ran this year was "If I repeat the same behaviors I had this year, where will I realistically end up in 12 months?" That question alone reframes everything."

Entrepreneurs often feel excited about end-of-year time off yet daunted by the new year's potential and deadlines. Traditional planning methods like to-do lists and calendars no longer suffice for the complexity of modern careers and lives. AI can act as a thought partner that forces clarity, exposes blind spots, and recognizes personal behavioral patterns. Asking a trajectory question about repeating the same behaviors for 12 months helps reveal where current habits lead. Treat time like a portfolio and use AI to identify the roughly 20% of goals likely to produce 80% of meaningful outcomes, flagging energy-draining projects and focusing effort on the most impactful work.

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