Where do you want to be a year from now? 🔭

Use AI to deepen your 2025 reflections and goal-setting

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If you’re anything like me, you’re only just getting started with your 2025 goal-setting.

Remember: January 1 is an arbitrary day.

You can start anytime.

And if you’re overwhelmed and not sure where to start, this is for you. 

AI can help you get from zero to one as a thought partner. It can offer provocation, poke holes in your assumptions and feed you new inspiration.

Here's a blueprint to reflect on future you and set goals via

• 3 powerful human reflection questions for you to ask yourself

• 3 prompts to go deeper with a thought-provoking conversation with AI (✨pro tips: use ChatGPT's advanced voice to make this a conversation; if you tackle these in separate sessions, reopen your previous conversation to avoid having to repeat yourself)

Note that this these prompts are specifically about career goals, but you don't have to limit yourself in this process!

Step 1: visualize you, one year from now

Picture yourself ringing in the new year at midnight on January 1, 2026. Reflect on the person you want to be in that moment.

Question: Where do I want to be a year from now? How will I feel?

Maybe you want to look even further ahead and consider how 2026 you rolls up into your 3-year or 5-year vision for yourself. Even better.

Now use AI to go deeper with this prompt 👇

You're an experienced career coach and expert in behavior change. You're going to act as my career coach. I want you to balance asking me open-ended, thought-provoking questions with offering me advice — both are important here. When you offer advice, I expect this to be credible, actionable and tightly tailored to me and my situation. Take a real talk approach, please don't just be a relentless cheerleader! I want you to be brutally honest with me, and call me out on my assumptions, shortcomings and self-limiting beliefs. Here's some context on me: [name, role, industry, geo, career history, other relevant details]. I want to start by visualizing where I want to be in my career a year from now, in color. Let's take this one step at a time, iteratively building out a clear view of what future me looks like. Where should we start?

Step 2: define 1-3 big goals

Move from your visualization to a concrete goal.

Question: If I could only accomplish one thing (or maaaybe two or three) in the next 12 months, what would it be? What’s going to move the dial for me?

Use this prompt with AI to define your 1-3 big goals for the year:

Now I want to shift gears into goal-setting. Let's ideate potential goals one by one, figure out why they matter, and assess if they're truly realistic. My aim here is to only set 1-3 big goals for this year (and we can get into practical actions later, once we’ve refined the goal). Where do you suggest we begin?

Step 3: build your plan

Now let’s get tactical.

Question: Practically what do I need to do in the next 12 months to get from here to there? What does my learning trajectory look like? And what habits, relationships, attitudes do I need to leave behind in 2024?

Try out this prompt to get AI to build out your tactical gameplan:

Now let's work backwards from my vision and goals, breaking these into milestones and practical steps using a SMART goal approach, including manageable monthly and weekly actions to achieve these 1-3 big goals. I want you to really challenge my assumptions here and get specific about tactics, timelines, and tools I can use to stay on track. Also it’s important for you to help me identify 1) what I might need to drop or change from 2024 that no longer serves my objectives, and 2) danger areas as we build this plan for 2025 where I may be setting myself up to fail. Let's sketch out this roadmap together — where do you want to start?

Ready to reimagine your role for 2025?

I want to share something exciting with you: EAs who embrace AI aren't just saving time – they're starting to totally reimagine their roles.

My clients are saving on average 3.5 hours per week using AI— that's like adding a 13th month to your year 🤯 But here's the real magic: they're using that time to

• Step into strategic partner roles

• Lead operational innovation

• Become internal AI integration specialists

• Get some work-life balance back.. which is so important to be the best version of you 💙

The bottom line: the assistants who thrive in 2025 will be the ones who embrace AI early and thoughtfully. And that's exactly what we can help you do.

That's why I'd love you to consider joining our winter cohort of Carve AI (Feb 11-Mar 25). We have just a handful of spots left, see more info or hit reply to chat.

Have a great weekend ahead, and happy reflecting 🪞
Fi

p.s. if you’re based in the Bay Area and free this coming Tues 28th, I’m co-hosting an intimate roundtable breakfast on growth & progression in Menlo Park with Julia Leibowitz (co-founder of Cabinet) and a fantastic group of EAs.. and we still have 2 seats available! RSVP here.