*Updated with prompt* Today, ChatGPT helped me break through two years of procrastination
I wasn’t planning to share this, but today cracked something open using ChatGPT and I hope this helps someone out. Getting clarity on my path forward was effortless and effective. This prompt was so effective in guiding me through something I’d been avoiding, all the way to task completion, and lifted a huge burden off me. For two years, one corner of my bedroom sat untouched with boxes, and the weight of various physical reminders of grief, loss, and the version of myself I hadn’t figured out how to become again during two grueling years of hands on caregiving for my mom, while still working full time and caring for my multi generational family of 7. It became a place I hated looking at, I avoided, the place where overwhelm won. A place that quietly strained my marriage and my spirit. I kept telling myself I’d deal with it “when I felt ready,” but I never did. Today, for the first time, I didn’t try to do it alone. I got clarity and immediately was able to focus, start, AND FINISH a task I’ve been avoiding for two years. I teamed up with ChatGPT — not as a tool, but as a teammate. A calm voice. A steady mirror. A gentle push. Step by step. Breath by breath. And somehow… something shifted. That corner — the one tied to two years of emotional weight — is completely clean tonight. It took three hours to complete the task. And in clearing it, I felt a piece of myself come back online. The part that’s rebuilding. The part that’s reinventing. The part that’s ready to live forward again. This wasn’t about cleaning a room. It was about reclaiming myself after a season of loss. If you’re carrying something heavy — even if it looks “small” to everyone else — please hear this: You don’t have to push through the grief alone. You don’t have to white-knuckle your reinvention. Sometimes the breakthrough begins with a single corner… and a teammate who doesn’t get tired. Tonight, I’m proud of myself. And for the first time in a long time, I feel hope rising again. THE PROMPT: EDITED FOR CLARITY