Lazy Discipline
Custom GPT Edition
When I started building and using Custom GPTs I realised what a game changer they are for company of ones and small businesses.
Like anything, there is a skill to building them. If you are going to rely on it each day, it’d better be good. You want to build it like a pro. That is why I built this course.
Even now, most people don’t get how big a thing it will be for them. Or they think it's too hard. But building one is easier than you think. Now, I can build a Custom GPT faster than I can boil an egg.
What is a Custom GPT?
In short, you can customise your own GPT without knowing how to code, without hiring a team, without turning into a geek.
And, here’s the best part, you can learn to build one within 30 minutes.
Which brings me to your next question:
“Why on earth would I want to build one?”
Why building your own custom GPT is a gamechanger.
In the story of David and Goliath, David emerged victorious.
He won, against all odds, because he leveraged a simple yet powerful technology: the sling.
As a company of one, everyone is bigger than you.
Everyone is your Goliath.
But on November 6th, 2023, the playing field got levelled.
Open AI released Custom GPTs.
Since then
the right tool, used strategically, can dramatically increase the odds of you winning.
A customisable GPT is your sling.
“I kind of get it, but not really.”
How a Custom GPT can help you
My example
This is how I am using GPT as a writer who wants to Micro Blog daily.
I make notes on cool phrases, quotes and ideas almost every day. Therefore, I have thousands of notes.
There’s lots of gold, but I can’t always remember exactly what is in there.
Now, what if upload them to a GPT which I will call ‘Brainstorm My Notes.”
But I give the GPT context first.
(Context makes it more precise.)
- I tell it my writing structure.
- I tell it what questions to ask me each time before it searches.
- I feed it with examples of Micro Blogs that I have written.
- It refers to the context each time I ask it to brainstorm my notes.
Then when I tell it, for example, that I am writing a piece about “Recovering Introverts” and it gives me three ideas for possible blogs.
I am NOT using it to write for me. I do that. I am using it to brainstorm ideas from my notes I have collected.
This dramatically increases my productivity because it gives me the most relevant notes from years gone by that I probably have forgotten.
What it sparks are new angles.
New ways of looking at it.
And it is all from my old notes.
It makes me, more me.
Think of this as your Co-Pilot that you can customise to your own specific needs.
Think about examples of how it can help you.
Each day you have workflows that you repeat.
There will be things you do each day that a customisable GPT will help you do quicker and better.
That will FREE UP TIME for you to spend more time on the bits only you can do.
The Agency example
Say, you run a PR agency, what do you each day?
Maybe, press releases? What if it could brainstorm angles that would inspire you to think differently?
All based on the context you provided of how you write press releases.
It helps you become more you.
The Coach Example
Say, you are a life coach, what do you do each day?
Maybe, write programmes for clients?
It can brainstorm angles for you that would inspire you programme differently.
All based on the context you provided of how you write life-coaching programmes.
As your thinking and methodologies evolve. You can train it to evolve with you.
A custom GPT is like building your own version ChatGPT but tailored to your specific needs.
You can teach it to write in the style of Shakespeare, solve problems like Albert Einstein or build training routine to get you to run a marathon based on your age, your diet, your diary and how many hills are close by.
It can do a lot.
So you can spend more time on where you make the biggest difference.
In my case, I have invested thousands of hours into my notes. I can now brainstorm them in seconds based on my criteria.
All of a sudden, it becomes a powerful asset to help my creative writing by using my notes which are unique to me.
It makes me more me.
“The incredible writing assistant you never thought was possible.”
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