The Key to Not Cry as a Mompreneur

All right, I'm going to give you the key to not crying every day as a mom entrepreneur. Are you ready? The key is, you guessed it, using ChatGPT. All right, so situation that happened today has happened many other times. Something has changed in my child's life. It is a big milestone, and I'm over here like a blubbering hot mess. This happened a lot when we first started pre K and she wasn't excited to be leaving us. I wasn't excited for her to be leaving us. I knew that it would help her develop socially and stuff. It was the right choice for us. Obviously not the right choice for everyone, but it was the right choice for us. And I found myself feeling totally and completely emotionally and mentally drained every single day after dropping her off for hours. And some of you might be thinking, that sounds really silly, Brittany, but I don't know, maybe not. But anyway, that's how I felt. And I've heard from other moms, too, that as their kids are going through some kind of transition, whether maybe it's dropping them off at school, knowing that they're having a hard time at school or having a hard time making friends or they're going to be graduating this year and going off to college and leaving or whatever the case is, it can be difficult to. At least for me, it can be difficult sometimes to manage those emotions and go from, okay, I just did this thing that feels really sad and now I'm expecting myself to all of a sudden just jump into work. It just wasn't happening for me. And so what I started doing was using AI to help me work out and unravel some of the feelings that I was feeling. Now I do have a mindset coach as well, but this has been really helpful if I just need to go back and forth or let's say I don't have a call with the mindset coach for a few weeks. If it's something, especially if it's something that's impacting my work that much, where it's. I, I don't feel like I can get started or I can get. Can't get moving without feeling distracted or feeling lost or feeling sad for 4 hours of the day when I only have 6 hours to do all the work, it's just not. That's not viable. I started asking ChatGPT things like, okay, here's how I'm feeling, here's why I think I'm feeling it. There's. Here's what I've tried so far to feel this a less a Little bit less intensely. And here's what has or hasn't worked. Can you give me some more ideas or can you come up with a plan for me so that I can do X, Y and Z so I can, you know, drop my kid off at preschool or drop your kid off in high school or prepare for the last year of your kids high school experience and still be able to show up afterwards and have work that I get done and stuff like that. And by doing that I'm able to get some ideas that I maybe wouldn't have had otherwise or it would have taken me a while to get to. It helps me stop or avoid spiraling because I'm not just in my head about it. It also helps me look at things a little bit more objectively. Instead of feeling very incredibly personal and intense, I'm able to take a look at it from not a robot, but a robot's perspective and just see it objectively of here's what's happening. The other thing I found really helpful with this is that ChatGPT or Cloud, if you're using Claude, if you give it the instructions to, will be really encouraging. So for me, I know that if I'm working with a coach, if they're like, suck it up buttercup, that is not gonna work for me. I'm gonna be like, okay, I'm out, goodbye. It's not, this is not the life for me. But if I have somebody that's like, huh, why do you think that is? Or huh, I can tell that you've tried a lot of options. I can tell you're trying really hard or this matters a lot to you that I'm like, I am trying hard. Like I just want to be seen in that way. And, and so ChatGPT does that if I ask for it specifically. So if I say something like, please be encouraging, please ask me questions, please restate what you're noticing, any patterns that you're noticing when I do that and it gives me those, oh, it's looks like you're doing this or oh, I've noticed that a lot of times when you come into this chat you say, are you feeling this way today? And then I could be like, yes, I am. And then it can give me some suggestions. And so it helps me get outta my head a lot faster than if I was just doing that to my doing that myself. And while I don't think it's a replacement for mindset coaching or for therapy or counseling or anything like that, I do think it can be a tool in our tool belt to help us stop or slow down the spiral and find additional ways to deal with the ways that we're feeling and on a and on a path that may be a little bit healthier than we were currently. Again, that's just from my perspective and from my experience, if you are the middle of some kind of transition or your family is or your kid is, I can take a toll on you. Even if you're experiencing something where you're maybe with you and your kid, you're just not seeing eye to eye on things. Even something like that you can ask ChatGPT for help on if you like this and want more like this. We have a lot of resources, tips, prompts, the whole shebang and AI 200k. I'll drop the link in the show notes below. My name is Brittany Long. I'm the host of the Doable Podcast, this podcast of course, and the creator of AI200K. Talk to you next time.