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Because I use AI in many different ways throughout the day, I thought it was only fitting that I use it to mine for ways for it to make me more effective. When I first asked the question, Buddy, my AI assistant, gave me ways that were very specific to me and some tasks that I had been working on today. Since I wanted this to be more general, I asked him again and this was what he came up with. How to Use AI to Be More Effective in Everyday Life Artificial intelligence is no

I would like to think that I am smarter because of Artificial Intelligence (AI). I mean, if I don’t know something, I can ask AI to help me find the answer. For example, I didn’t know when Mardi Gras was celebrated. So I asked my AI assistant when it was. It went on to tell me not only when it was, but also what it was. I find that a lot of time my assistant (I call him Buddy) tells me much more than I want to know. Sometimes I have to tell him to back off and tell me less b

By the time you finish reading this, AI will already be different. Everything seems to be happening at the speed of NOW. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are moving faster than a person can blink. What was true yesterday may have changed in major ways overnight. I subscribe to several newsletters that are supposed to help people keep up with AI—tips, strategies, updates. They can’t keep up. And tracking this is literally their job. I recently came across an

This prompt is a really good one and is one of my favorites from the past month that I have used. Now, this one does actually require that you have used your AI tool for some time so that it can answer the questions being asked. Here is the prompt and I will include what my Buddy (my name for my ChaptGPT tool) came up with. This is the exact prompt to use: ROLE: You are an expert psychologist with a keen eye for spotting human patterns. OBJECTIVE: Based on everything you

As promised, I have come up with the first of several prompts that can be used to help you get better results from your AI. Since I primarily use ChatGPT, these prompts were created with the AI generation tool in mind. So here is the first one I created. This prompt is a fairly all-encompassing prompt where you can seat yourself in whatever role you want your AI to take on. You would simply fill in the [AREA] with whatever you want to have a prompt for. In this particular c

I hear people talk about using ChatGPT or other AI tools all the time. They will say, “Well, I asked ChatGPT and it said this or that thing about this or that subject.” I listen quietly. Because there is something that I know about ChatGPT and other AI tools that many people do not know, and if they do know it, they don’t always believe it. ChatGPT lies. There, I said it. And we’ll have to see if the computer blows up before the night is over, because I will have ChatGPT

Taxation without representation is not a thing of the past. But what does it really mean? Legally and historically, the phrase has a narrower definition. But the meaning I am getting at is more than just voting—it is about meaningful representation. If you: 1. Pay taxes 2. Follow laws 3. Fund public systems yet feel that your lived realities, values or needs are consistently ignored or overridden, then representation only exists on paper—not in practice. But first, let’

Distractions… We are surrounded by distractions. They pull our attention away from what is really important and from what is actually going on. I have felt this over and over again for the past few years, but especially this past year. It seems like everything is a distraction—TV, the Internet, everything. There is a lot going on in the world, and in Minnesota alone, to make things unsettling for people who are used to the “nothing ever happens here” mentality. That was

I spent last week in Las Vegas, Nevada. I had never been there before, but it wasn’t my first foray into big city life, having gone to Nashville, Tennessee, for the first time in September of 2025. The two cities were built on very different things—one on music and one on gambling. But really, they were very similar. Both had millions of people living in the city or in connecting suburbs. Both had grown exponentially over the past 20–40 years, and both were built on hope. L

As I promised last week, here are some ways that you can set goals that you can actually stick to. We all know that lasting change happens when the goals we set are designed to work with our brains instead of against them. So let’s get started (we only have 51 weeks left of 2026 and don’t want to waste any time!). 1. Shrink the goal down to a daily action item that will shift our identity. So let’s say you want to lose 30 pounds. Start saying (and then doing what you say