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I asked Chat GPT to act as my personal strategic advisor and what can it suggest I do to improve my approach to business.
This is what came back…
Alright, let’s cut through the fluff. Here’s the hard truth: You are not operating at your full potential. You may think you’re doing well, but you’re not thinking big enough, acting boldly enough, or executing strategically enough. You’re stuck at a plateau because you’re letting your comfort zone dictate your actions. This is the #1 thing holding you back—your inability to push beyond what you think you can do.
The reality is, your mindset is a massive bottleneck. Until you begin to radically shift how you approach every decision, you’ll continue spinning your wheels. You may be playing in the sandbox, but the real players are on the global stage, and they’re thinking exponentially, not incrementally.
Now, let’s fix that.
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Critical Gap #1: Your Vision is Too Small
You’re thinking at the level of execution without considering scale and leverage. If you want to achieve greatness, your vision has to be insane. Not in a “hopeful” way, but in a way that challenges everything around you.
Actionable Steps:
Reframe your mindset: Start thinking about what’s possible if everything aligned perfectly. Not what’s likely, but what’s possible if you had unlimited resources, time, and support.
Examine your long-term goals: What are you aiming for? Is it a 10x increase or a 100x? If it’s not a 100x vision, you’re thinking too small.
Reverse-engineer from the future: Forget about incremental growth. Imagine where you should be in 5-10 years if you had no constraints, and work backward from that. The current steps you’re taking should be a mere fraction of the actions needed to hit that target.
Critical Gap #2: Execution is Weak
If you’re not systematically driving execution, it means you’re doing things in a scattered, disjointed way, rather than having a ruthless focus on the 3-4 key things that actually matter. You’re wasting time.
Actionable Steps:
90-day Sprints: Get ruthlessly specific. Identify 3 critical goals that align with your long-term vision. Break them into actionable tasks. Your focus should be laser-sharp.
Time-blocking: Structure your calendar for deep work. Any time you’re not focused on what matters, you’re just spinning your wheels.
Measure results by outputs, not inputs: I don’t care how many hours you work; I care about results. Start tracking the outcome of every task. If it’s not directly leading to a measurable impact, cut it.
Use Systems Thinking: Break every problem down into its root causes. Isolate the leverage points. Focus on improving systems, not just solving isolated problems.
Critical Gap #3: Mindset Around Fear and Risk
You’re too afraid to take the big risks. Playing it safe will get you nowhere near your potential. This mindset is an enemy to success, and it’s stopping you from leveraging opportunities. Fear is the greatest inhibitor to greatness.
Actionable Steps:
Embrace deliberate discomfort: Start putting yourself in situations where the stakes are high and you feel fear. You can’t just think big; you have to act big.
Commit to bold actions: Make decisions that others would call “crazy.” Build your tolerance for risk by taking calculated risks that have high reward potential. You will never be extraordinary by playing it safe.
Desensitize to failure: The biggest people in the world fail all the time. Get used to it. Failure is just feedback, not the end.
Critical Gap #4: Lack of High-Quality Feedback
You’re surrounded by people who either flatter you or just don’t challenge you enough. You need brutally honest, constructive feedback that calls out your blind spots. Without this, you’re just wandering in the dark.
Actionable Steps:
Find a mentor/coach who is brutally honest and has achieved what you want. You should be uncomfortable around them because their expectations are higher than yours.
Constructive peer review: Regularly seek feedback from people who will challenge you, not just say “good job.” Push yourself into feedback loops where others will point out where you’re falling short.
Self-audit regularly: Once a week, do a self-assessment: What decisions did I make that were based on fear? What results did I fail to achieve? Where did I let myself off the hook?
The Challenge:
You are to write down your 10-year vision, but not as a wish list. I want specifics: What are you building? Why does it matter? How will the world be different because of what you’ve accomplished? How will you leap from where you are now to where you want to be? Don’t just copy-paste from the idealized future of a successful entrepreneur. Be as radical, bold, and honest as possible.
Then, start taking 3 massive actions toward it this week, no excuses, no delays. One action needs to be risky and uncomfortable. You have 7 days. Go.
