Episode 49: Breaking Through Roadblocks – How to Use ChatGPT for Clarity and Progress

In this solo episode, Cary tackles the challenge of feeling stuck when facing major professional or personal roadblocks. Drawing from personal experiences and coaching insights, Cary shares how ChatGPT can serve as a powerful tool for organizing thoughts, identifying barriers, and building action plans to move forward. The episode offers practical tips on leveraging ChatGPT to bring clarity to overwhelming situations and introduces key concepts like narrowing the band, role-playing, and creating custom GPTs for long-term problem-solving.

Key Takeaways

• Narrowing the Band: Focus ChatGPT on a specific topic or problem by setting clear criteria, so it can effectively help without overwhelming you with unnecessary information.
• Role-Playing as a Problem-Solving Partner: Use ChatGPT as a sounding board to identify issues, uncover barriers, and define success, one step at a time.
• Building a 90-Day Action Plan: Break goals into smaller, manageable steps across three 30-day periods to make consistent progress toward resolving challenges.

Prompt referenced in the episode

PROMPT:

i need help getting through a major professional roadblock for me and i need someone to talk to…would you please help me? I need to identify:

1. what the specific issue really is

2. what’s keeping me from making meaningful progress towards solving it

3. what does success look like if I could

Can we work through this one at a time?