I asked…

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?

Honestly, today’s blogging prompt, “What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?” bugged me. Then it stirred me, tickling the edges of my gut like maybe something I ate was bad. No, it wasn’t that. The question reminded me of just the other day, when I asked chatGPT to tell me what it knows about me, and then I dared ask what I might want to change.

They say chat only knows how to be a yes-man. I’d already given it the command not to be so.

I admit, I was impressed. So impressed that I gave another command: Remind me of this frequently! Because already, I forgot.

For those of us who have been around a while, self-improvement may have become a tiresome subject. We know it takes 28 days to break a habit. We know we need to exercise more, eat right, balance the work-rest-play cycle, and advance along the spectrum of altruism.

Check.

But what chat suggested for me was actually new. Okay, new-ish. Yes, I saved it so I could remember. Ugh, this brain!

Here’s the advice chat gave me:

Simplify your public ecosystem. Right now your deepest asset is not volume, it’s coherence.

The challenge isn’t becoming more interesting. It’s learning to trust that you already are.

These are some pretty cool challenges for me to work on.

As an INFP, my innate quest toward depth and authenticity lead me down more than a few deep rabbit holes. Maybe it’s time to lighten up a bit and just enjoy the benefits of all that hard work.

How about you? What are you focusing on changing?