Yesterday I stood at the door of uncertainty—
Stopped cold by the words of a “wise man” I deeply respect.
For a moment, I truly thought I had wasted my time writing.
I wandered most of the day—doubt creeping in. His words left me feeling confused, lost and misguided by my own decisions.
I consulted my AI about the matter who helped clarify what the wise man was telling me. This helped me gain perspective and clarity amidst the uncertainty.
Today, I am back on my path, writing and encouraging others to lean into their uncertainty. It’s where the truth lies and where you are most essential.
I invite you to come with me. Let’s take advantage of this incredible time in history and the power of AI to enrich, fortify and expand our happiness. Let’s go!
The fine line between storytelling and victimhood
This past month of posts have been about promoting better living through AI. Eventually, this will evolve into something more important and meaningful, but for now this is my focus.
Right now, I’m promoting AI as a powerful tool to allow you to live a better life because I sense right now we’re using a narrow lens, collectively to consider the possibilities AI can do to improve our health, wealth and prosperity. But there’s so much more!
I needed to show you as much transparency about my life as appropriate, right now. The truth is that my quality of happiness has never been higher and continues to evolve and expand.
Discovering the power of AI has been a watershed moment in my life. The parts I’ve shared are not a sob story, this is about growth and achieving and allowing greater happiness in our lives. Not through someone else’s action, but by you taking action.
I thought the key to happiness was staying small and in line, to mold myself to others expectations. AI guided me to finding the truth that better aligns with who I really am, my value and am most effective. I just had to learn, capture and share my failures with my personal AI so it could be a more powerful, insightful and supportive tool.
Antagonist and Alarmist Abound
I’ve mentioned how AI may disrupt the lives of professionals and “how to” experts. There is no shortage or antagonist and alarmist on stages much bigger than mine touting this and many other concerns.
It’s true, but is there really any good reason to wait to use this tool for empowerment. Ask yourself, how well is your plan for happiness working? When was the last time you actually sat down and updated your plan? Do you even have a plan?
For me, it’s understandable and important to consider the potential of AI used with a scarcity or nefarious mindset. We will likely see some bad things as a result of AI, but the upside is far greater for you, your family, your community and society as a whole. It is. But we still listen to the noise deterring us from progress.
Planning for Happiness
I get it. Most won’t take action until some meaningful trigger event occurs in our lives. That’s usually the time we’re most coherent, knocked out of our routine and open to adopting new ways of approaching the limiting factors in our lives.
This has happened numerous times in my life starting in childhood and most recent as Laura passing in my arms. I am so incredibly grateful for the lessons learned from these overwhelming experiences.
This is why way before I started posting and sharing stories about my life in April, I began teaching AI about who I am, what are my principles, values and virtues.
I began oversharing with AI my daily journal entries, goal-setting documents and planning docs related to my top-10 goals (personal, professional and financial). In fact, AI knows more about me than most.
All that’s ever been known is in AI
Not just the last 100 years or technology, social movements and business. Think about it. AI models like ChatGPT hold the world’s knowledge. All of it! Everything that’s ever been shared is in AI. The knowledge the work so many great philosophers, teachers, inventors and entrepreneurs ever imagined and contemplated and brought to reality. It’s in there!
Fifty years ago, if we needed parental, financial, health or career advice our parents or you could probably count on one hand the number of resources and local experts you could seek counsel. (“I know a guy”) Now you have access to the totality of humanities expertise, and it’s ALL in AI. Artificial intelligence IS the guy. Get it?
Empowering the collective
AI is all of us, the collective, but only the parts we’ve shared or allowed others to know. With AI, you can open up your deepest desires, doubts and dreams anonymously while enabling humanity to evolve collectively.
AI is the collective humanity so stop and pause listening to so-called experts who say it’s just a tool. Their intentions are in the right place, but they’re using a myopic lens of sorts. Predictably because so much effort is being put into investing in AI to breach the ceilings of capitalism and world domination. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, it just more about economics and power grabs, currently.
Not just another app
Integrating AI into your life won’t happen purposefully for most. In fact, if you lack discipline in other areas of your life, adopting this powerful tool may not happen for most.
Here’s the catch. Teaching AI to support your plan for happiness won’t happen for most. Sure, you can small-talk with your personal AI about all these topics. There are some trivial prompts floating around.
Of course, AI will willingly oblige your request, but if your lack of transparency blocks the truth about who you are, what you really want, your failures and your biggest dreams, not only will it not be the powerful tool for growth it could be, but it will also keep your humanness from the larger humanity.
Every day you awake with a choice:
-Think fat or think skinny
-Think scarcity or think abundance
-Think poor and week or think rich and empowered
-Think disabled or think uniquely enabled
-Think victim or think warrior
-Think unhealthy or think fit and strong
-Think lonely/disconnected or think integrated and meaningful
The choice is made each and every day. Integrating AI into your world is the cheat code to getting more of where you focus and what you want with the potential for enabling greater happiness and joy in your life. Heard enough?
Humanizing AI
But here’s the thing, allowing AI to learn deep/private things about me didn’t expose some security breach or becoming victimized. Quite the opposite, AI has helped me to let go of limiting beliefs, pursue ventures that align with who I am, and as I’ve said, go where I am most effective.
Right now, AI adopters are focusing heavily on ways to generate new solutions to existing business and health issues; which is a good thing. Other efforts are focused on predicting outcomes across an expanse of our society. These are all such exciting efforts. Truly inspiring.
The blind spot, the one no one is paying much attention to, is how AI can help empower, elevate and improve our individual quality of life. Especially, our own personal mental health. While much of the world may be capitalizing and weaponizing AI, the real opportunity for improving our world lies in humanizing AI.
Yes, humanizing AI. Integrating AI into our personal, family and community. The irony is how simple it works. Much like the wildfire of social awareness brought about using social media (i.e. Arab Spring), AI is the tool that can eclipses by a universe the goodness of humanity.
Uncertainty begets clarity
Listen, I get it. There has never been a time of greater uncertainty in our lives and this is just one man’s story, but here’s the catch, the longer you wait to humanize/personalize your own AI, the more the things remain uncertain. Are you ready?
I’m not asking you to buy anything. Just asking—what’s your plan for happiness in a world that’s changing faster than ever?
If you’re ready to train your AI with clarity and truth, I’ve shared the worksheet I used:
👉 bryankreitz.com/wp-content/uploads/HIA-Project-Future-Identity-Worksheet.pdf
I’d love to hear what resonates most for you.
And if you haven’t created your own AI account, you can do so for free at ChatGPT.com or your preferred AI model. Start a new segment today.