How AI Helps You with Your Holiday Planning
5 Nov 2024 · 6 min
Brittany Long shows how ChatGPT and Claude can handle gift planning and holiday meals. Feed the AI your budget, guest dietary needs, and past gifts, and it generates tailored ideas, menus, recipes, drink pairings, and seating charts you can refine with follow-up prompts.
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The holidays are almost here and guess who's going to be your best friend? That's right, chatgpt. Claude. And here's why. First, before I forget, I made a list of all of the different ways that AI can help you during the holidays. Create all the prompts for them. If you want your holidays this time of year and the rest of the year to go a lot smoother and to be a lot less stressful, you want to click the link that comes with this podcast right now. Today we're going to talk about Christmas, and I've got two ways that AI can help you during Christmas time. The first one is is planning what gifts to get of everybody. I love gift giving. It's one of my favorite things to do every single year. But it definitely takes a really long time and there's a little bit, if not a lot of anxiety that goes into it because I really want to make sure I'm getting a great gift that the person's going to love that is meaningful and from the heart. And so it takes me some time to sort through some things now because ChatGPT came up with search, not only are you going to be able to use it to come up with some ideas of what to get everyone, but you're also going to be able to use it to actually search for those ideas as well. If you still don't think that ChatGPT search is going to be a contender for Google searches traffic, my friend, I think you are wrong. But that's a discussion for another day. So here's what we're going to do. Go into ChatGPT or Claude, ideally ChatGPT, because it has a chat GPT search, and you're going to say, I'm going to tell you about the people that I'm getting gifts for and I want you to help me figure out what kind of gift is going to be best for them. I want the gift to be so funny. I want it to be meaningful. I want it to be reflective of the year that we've had together. Whatever it is that you want it to be, insert that there. At this point, I usually say, here are the things they like, here are the things that they don't like. If I know they already have something certain, I'll say that they already have this. If I know that I've gotten them a present in the past that they absolutely loved, I'll say that if we're looking for something in a certain budget, I'll say what the budget is. If I'm looking for Something that's more of an experience. I'll say what I want it to be an experience, but I give it as much detail as possible and then I ask it to come up with a list of anywhere from five to ten ideas. And if I don't see anything that sticks out immediately, I give feedback. I like this number, but here's why this one won't work. Or I don't like this one, because why ever I don't. Why whatever reason, I don't think that they'd like it or it wouldn't work for me. Now, for those of you listening that are like, cool, this is great for my family. A lot of gifts to give for business associates too. Maybe you send out presents to your clients, especially for those of you that do high ticket or mastermind, you might do a little. Not like a giant gift, but you might do something. You might even do this throughout the year too, or even when you're looking. When a client, you may be looking for some kind of gift ideas. You can do the same thing here. If you're looking for a business associate or a business friend and just saying, you know, here, information about this person, you might also want to say, here's the information about this person, the brand that they run about, you know, the brand, just to give it the full picture of some of the stuff that they might like. Once that's done, you can actually search for the gift using ChatGPT search. And boom, just like that, we've cut down your search time, your present idea time, from probably weeks to maybe an hour, probably less. And you still have the benefit of giving a gift to somebody that will be meaningful to them that they'll really like. Um, what I found is that I often do a better job with the help of ChatGPT than just by myself. So you're just like an excellent gift giver who gets it right every time. But for me, it takes some time, so really helpful. Now the other thing I want to talk about is prepping for a holiday meal. So whether that's Chris or New Year's or holidays that you're celebrating, if you like to cook during those holidays. In our family for Christmas, we all kind of, we have like meats and cheeses and stuff. So it's not a lot of cooking, but if you do like to have a lot of cooking, you help it, have it, help you come up with a meal plan or a party plan. Essentially what you're going to do here is say, this is the number of people I have coming over These are the food preferences. So five people that like shellfish, one person that's allergic to shellfish, and then the rest of the people don't. They just don't like the taste of it. And so all that kind of information, you can even have them fill out the people that are coming, fill out a form leading up to it so you know what they like and don't like. And then you can have ChatGPT or Claude Plan that, that dinner, that lunch, whatever it is for you based on the preferences, based on what people said they like and don't like and make it in a dinner, a meal that everyone enjoys and puts the least amount of stress possible on you. Not only can it help you come up with what exactly to serve and when, it can also help you come up with the recipes, the kinds of mocktails or cocktails to go with it, how to make a kid friendly or allergy friendly version. I will say if it's allergies especially, always double check. I think the rule of thumb anyway, whether it's a recipe or you're using ChatGPT, always double check. And then if it's a family thing you're bringing everybody together for, we all know that family stuff can get a little bit dicey sometimes. Maybe. Anyway, maybe it can. I don't know. I have great relationships, thankfully, but I know especially during times of year where everyone's together for extended periods of time, it can be a little bit tricky. So you go to chat GPT and say, here's everybody that's coming. Help me plan who to sit where at the table so that we can have the best possible meal and then give a little bit of background on everyone. You can also use AI to help you come up with game ideas. I've done that with some minute to win it ideas or activities like a thankfulness activity if you're going into, you know, the season, Thanksgiving in end of November. Now, like I said, if you want to make all of your holidays much easier with the help of AI, I created a guide to help you do that with GPTs. All you have to do to get that is click the link that comes with this podcast episode to grab it today. My name is Brittany Lawn. I'm the creator of AI to 100k and I'll talk to you next time.