Change Your Life in 30 Days

Your Move

You have more to offer than you think you do. The problem is that when you've been living your life for a while, the patterns get hard to see. Maybe you've had a career path that looks scattered and you can't figure out how the pieces connect. Maybe you followed the recipe everyone said would work and ended up with something you no longer want to eat. Maybe you're younger and you already know the old recipe is broken and you need a completely different approach. Whatever your version is, you're staring at the same question: what now?

This tool helps you answer that question. You're going to have a conversation with AI (don't worry, I'll walk you through every step, even if you've never used it before) and by the end of it, you'll have a clear picture of the patterns running through your professional and creative life, the connections between things you thought were unrelated and a handful of possibilities you probably haven't considered.

For a lot of people, this will be your first real experience using AI for something that actually matters to you. You're not learning AI for the sake of learning AI. You're using it to do something meaningful, and the AI literacy is a byproduct. That's how it should work.

Transformative Creativity is action taken on an idea that transforms something in your life. This tool is your first action.

The whole thing takes about 30 minutes. You don't need any experience with AI. You don't need to be tech savvy. You just need to be willing to answer some honest questions about your own life and let the patterns reveal themselves. This is about getting your agency back. It's your move.

One more thing: this conversation is private from me. It happens in your own AI account. I don't see it, I don't have access to it and I never will. The results are yours and yours alone. Be as honest as you want to be.

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Set Up Your AI

If you've never used AI before, this is going to take about two minutes. You're going to create a free account with one of these tools. Both work well. Pick whichever one you want.

Choose one:

Claude (by Anthropic) ChatGPT (by OpenAI)

Click the link, create a free account with your email, and you'll land on a screen with a text box where you can type. That's it. That's the whole setup.

If you already use AI: Open a new conversation. You want a fresh chat with nothing else in it, so the AI can focus entirely on you.

Once you have the chat open, you're ready for the next step. You're going to copy a block of text from this tool and paste it into that chat. The AI will read it and start asking you questions. All you have to do is answer them honestly.

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Start the Conversation

Copy the text below and paste it into your AI chat. This tells the AI who you are, what you need and how to talk to you. After you paste it, the AI will respond with its first question. Just answer it honestly and keep going. The conversation will guide itself from there.

COPY THIS ENTIRE TEXT
I'm going to tell you about my life, my career and my creative history, and I want you to help me see the patterns I can't see on my own. Here's how I'd like this to work: Ask me questions one at a time. Don't give me a list of ten things to answer. One question, wait for my response, then ask the next one. Keep it conversational, like you're a really smart friend who's genuinely curious about my life. Start by asking me to walk you through every job, business, side hustle, volunteer role, creative project and random thing I've tried over the course of my life. Big things and small things. The stuff on my resume and the stuff that never made it there. Ask follow-up questions to pull out details I might skip over. After I've laid it all out, I want you to do three things: 1. Show me the patterns. What keeps showing up across everything I've done? What skills, interests and tendencies thread through all of it? What do I keep coming back to even when I try to walk away from it? 2. Show me the connections. Which of these experiences that I thought were unrelated are actually connected? Where did one thing teach me something I used later in something completely different? What's the through-line I've been too close to see? 3. Show me the possibilities. Based on everything I've told you, what are five specific things I could explore, build or pursue that would bring together the best of what I've done? Organize them into categories: something creative, something professional, something entrepreneurial, something that combines multiple strengths and something I probably haven't considered. Be specific. Don't give me generic suggestions. Base them on the actual details of my life. A few ground rules: - Be direct with me. Don't sugarcoat things or give me vague encouragement. - If something I tell you sounds like a pattern worth examining, say so. - If I'm underselling something, point it out. - If I push back on something you've said, take it seriously. Adjust your interpretation and dig deeper rather than defending your first read. The conversation gets better when I challenge you. - Keep the conversation warm and real. No corporate language, no jargon, no bullet-point lists until we get to the summary at the end. - After the summary, ask me which possibilities sparked something. Let's start. Ask me your first question.
How to copy and paste: Click the orange "Copy" button above. Then go to your AI chat, click in the text box and paste (Ctrl+V on a computer, or long-press and tap Paste on a phone). Hit Enter or Send. The AI will read everything and respond with its first question.
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Have the Conversation

The AI is going to ask you about your life. Your only job right now is to be honest. Don't edit yourself. Don't leave out the things that feel too small or too random or too embarrassing to mention. The random ones are often the most important, because they're the things you kept coming back to when nobody was watching and nobody was paying you.

Take your time. This conversation usually runs 15-25 minutes depending on how much you have to share. There's no rush.

One more thing: if the AI makes a leap that doesn't feel right, push back. It might read too much into something you said or attribute meaning where there isn't any. That's fine. Tell it. The best results come from the conversation, not from accepting the first answer. Pushing back is how you get to the real stuff, and it's a good habit to build with AI in general.

Things to include that people usually forget: hobbies you've had, things you do for friends for free, skills people always ask you about, side projects that never went anywhere, interests you've never done anything with, things you were good at as a kid.

When the AI gives you your summary with the five possibilities, sit with it for a minute before you respond. Something on that list is going to spark. Pay attention to what it is. It might surprise you.

Lit up and a little overwhelmed? That's the normal aftermath. The Focus Session is where we turn all of this into one thing you can start this week.

Book a Focus Session $97

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What Just Happened

You just did something that most people never do. You laid out your entire professional and creative history, let someone (in this case, an AI) find the patterns you were too close to see, and opened yourself up to possibilities you hadn't considered.

That conversation you just had? That's a version of what I do with people through Transformative Creativity. The framework I've built is based on a simple premise: you are what you do, and when you start doing things differently, who you are starts to change. The map you just built is the first step. It shows you what you've been doing, what it's turned you into and where the energy actually lives in your history.

If something on that list sparked, hold onto it. That spark is the whole point. The map shows you where the energy's been hiding all along. Turning it into one thing you start this week is the next move, and it's the part worth getting some help with.

Don't let this evaporate

Your Move shows you a lot. Patterns you'd stopped noticing, connections between things you swore were unrelated, a handful of possibilities you didn't know you were sitting on. That's the good part and also the trap. Inspiration like this has a short shelf life. It's easy to walk away lit up, set the whole thing down and be back to your regular life by the weekend. It's just as easy to look at all of it at once and freeze, because everything feels equally important and you can't tell where to start.

The Focus Session is where we take what Your Move gave you and turn it into one thing you can start this week. We sort the noise from the signal, find the move with the most life in it and shrink it down to something small enough to actually begin. You leave with one move you can make this week instead of a pile of maybes.

Book a Focus Session $97

Ready for the whole 30 days?

Your Move is the front door. Change Your Life in 30 Days is the rest of the house, the full framework and the set of tools that take you from the move that sparked today to a real 30-day experiment. There are two ways in.

Run it yourself. You get the self-directed program, all the tools and the structure, at your own pace. Come in stuck. Leave different.

Change Your Life in 30 Days $49

Or do it one-on-one with me. The Clarity Session is the same path, walked together. It's ninety minutes, just you and me, building the experiment you'll run.

Book a Clarity Session $197

If you're not ready to spend anything, the weekly essays are free at Transformative Creativity on Substack.