My Year With ChatGPT (and Why You Might Want to Do This Too)

 

This year surprised me in a lot of ways.

Some of them were beautiful.
Some of them were humbling.
And some of them came with hospital bracelets, hard pivots, and long conversations with myself about what kind of business — and life — I actually want to be building.

One unexpected constant through all of it?

ChatGPT.

I didn’t start the year thinking, “This will become part of my daily rhythm.”
But somewhere between writing blog posts, mapping out new offers, talking through big decisions, and untangling ideas that felt too heavy to hold alone… it did.

Not as a replacement for thinking.
Not as a magic wand.
But as a quiet place to land when my brain was full.

A thinking partner, not a shortcut

For me, ChatGPT became a place to:

• Talk through pivots before making them

• Turn tangled thoughts into clear words

• Rewrite things when my energy was low

• Get unstuck without spinning

• Reflect without judgment

Some days it helped me write.
Some days it helped me decide.
Some days it just helped me name what I already knew but hadn’t said out loud yet.

And that matters more than people realize.

Because clarity doesn’t always come from hustle or pushing harder.
Sometimes it comes from having a place to think… without interruption.

Looking back at a year of growth (even when it didn’t look like it)

When I look back at my year with ChatGPT, I don’t just see output.

I see:

• ideas that finally found language

• plans that became simpler instead of bigger

• permission to build differently

• evidence that I don’t have to do everything alone

It was there during a major business pivot.
It was there while I was creating digital products and courses.
It was there while I was questioning, recalibrating, and re-imagining what “success” actually means for me now.

And honestly?
It helped me slow down and think better — not faster.

Why I love this year-in-review idea

Recently, ChatGPT introduced a simple way to look back on your own year with it — your conversations, your themes, the questions you kept returning to.

And I love that.

Because reflection is powerful.
Because patterns tell the truth.
Because sometimes you don’t realize how far you’ve come until you see it laid out in front of you.

If you’ve used ChatGPT this year — even casually — this is such a gentle, interesting way to notice what mattered to you.

What you were building.
What you were working through.
What you were learning to trust.

Your GPT will even give you a little reward and show your archetype with a list of your strengths. It helped me feel more positive about my achievements this year.

Want to see yours?

You can create your own Your Year With ChatGPT reflection here:

👉 https://www.chatgpt.com/?q=YourYearWithChatGPT

No pressure.
No performance.
Just curiosity.

And if you do look at it, I’d love to know what surprised you most — because those moments usually tell the real story.

Here’s to quieter clarity, better questions, and building lives that actually feel like ours.

— Amanda ✨